PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Daisy Colon, Bronx Resident
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Daisy Colon, a Bronx resident from an R4 zone, testifies against the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity plan. She argues that her diverse community already provides affordable housing through homeowners renting out units, and that the focus should be on building equity for residents rather than giving incentives to developers.
- Colon emphasizes the importance of homeownership and equity in addressing the housing crisis
- She expresses concern that the plan would attract developers to an area she considers already well-managed
- Colon calls for more support for existing homeownership programs like New York City partnerships, Mitchell-Lama, and co-ops/condos
Daisy Colon
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Hi.
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How are you?
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My name is Stacy Colone.
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I am a Bronx resident.
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I am located in the R4 Dome area.
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It is mostly 3 families, 4 families, and someone in 2 family homes.
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And, also, we are sprinkled with a couple of residential buildings, you know, in the avenues and in the area.
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Actually, against this plan, I think I'm blessed to live in a very diverse community.
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I have Ecuadorians, Argentinians, Italians, Irish, Bangladesh, Asian, South Asian, res our homeowners near me.
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This plan, what it would do is get developers to come in here, which we've been seeing a lot of this area's concerted work a loan management area.
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We're considered, like, we're not building enough housing for for low income.
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And I'm here to tell you, the residents and the homeowners here are we have a diverse homeownership where we have homes that have rental units, and that is what's sustaining us.
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We have equity.
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I think that this housing crisis is because we do not have enough homes with equity.
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We need to give our Brock and Brown brothers and sisters an opportunity to own equity and to afford their homes.
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We are keep giving developers tax breaks and all incentives to build.
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But what about our homeowners?
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What about our New York City partnership programs?
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Our Mitchell Llamas?
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Our coops and condos?
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What's going on with that?
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We need to start building equity in our areas.
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We need our neighborhoods to stay for
Kevin C. Riley
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Term expired.
Daisy Colon
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I am a 1st generation.
