PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by James Dill, Executive Director of Housing and Services, Inc.
9:27:00
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James Dill, Executive Director of Housing and Services, Inc., testified in support of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal, emphasizing its potential to ease affordable and homeless housing crises in New York City. He highlighted the benefits of the Universal Affordability Preference for supportive housing providers and expressed gratitude for the reallocation of NYC 15/15 resources towards congregate supportive housing.
- Stressed the importance of permanent supportive housing as a cost-effective solution to chronic homelessness
- Raised concerns about potential exploitation by for-profit developers and urged the council to ensure truly affordable housing
- Requested sufficient resources for HPD and HRA to make non-profit developers competitive in implementing City of Yes projects
James Dill
9:27:00
Thompson Dill, executive director of housing and service team.
9:27:03
We are an ibuprofen dedicated solely to permanent supportive housing, which is the most cost effective and humane way of ending chronic homelessness.
9:27:12
We are members of the supportive housing network in New York and fully support the network's office in points to this meeting.
9:27:19
We are also very grateful for the yes to housing coalitions advocacy and analysis work.
9:27:25
We fully support city of Fiesta as the means the easing affordable and homeless housing prices in our city.
9:27:32
The proposed universal affordability preference will give supportive housing providers the critical mass to provide the enhanced security and maintenance necessary to keep our projects clean and safe.
9:27:43
We thank the counsel for its support for the reallocation of NYC 1515 resources from the scattersite model to the creation and preservation to congregate support of housing.
9:27:55
We operated 100 units at our site program, which we believe is a crucial component and to continue to end continue of care to end homelessness.
9:28:06
However, the less than 2% vacancy rate in housing you to make the scattersite model unfeasible, where we have no plans to attempt to use a 1515 scattersite program.
9:28:16
We own the development of our most recent and congregate project to 15 15 congregate resources and eager to use them again for our next project.
9:28:26
We share the concerns about those superior that City of Yes will be exploited by 4 profit developers who will not provide truly affordable housing.
9:28:34
In consideration of the City of Yes, reurge the council to provide sufficient resources to HVD and HRA, but the government profits are preferred and competitive, thereby ensuring that city and guest enabled projects remain truly affordable and perpetuity 90% of our target candidates are beat odds definition of low income or extremely low income.
9:29:00
We will provide written testimony, and we thank you for this opportunity.
