PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Jeremy Kaplan, Rent Stabilized Tenant from Sunset Park, Brooklyn
12:46:50
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125 sec
Jeremy Kaplan, a rent stabilized tenant from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, criticizes the proposed housing plan, arguing that increasing supply has not effectively addressed affordability in other cities. He contends that the Universal Affordability Preference (UAP) is ineffective in meeting the needs of those facing the real housing crisis at rents of $1500 and below.
- Kaplan cites examples of cities like Long Island City, Minneapolis, and Austin where increased building has not lowered rents
- He argues that relying on developer incentives has not created truly affordable housing
- Kaplan emphasizes that the proposed plan will not address the needs of migrants or homeless people, as it produces mainly expensive units
Jeremy Kaplan
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Hi.
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How are you doing?
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Thanks.
12:46:52
It's very late.
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I'm a I'm a rent stabilized tenant.
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I'm in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
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I think that We've heard a lot of disinformation.
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I think the whole thing about supply supply supply.
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We need to keep building and building.
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And then I look at throughout they they talk about data And then I look at the data, and I see that Long Island City has a 60% rent increase, and it's one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in the United States.
12:47:25
I hear all this stuff about Minneapolis.
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I hear all this stuff about Austin.
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I hear all this stuff about these cities that keep building and building and I look at the data and their rents are going up and their rents are super high.
12:47:39
And I ask you, why do we keep doing the same thing over and over again and pretending like it works.
12:47:48
And so that this is the problem is that we've given up our ability to build truly affordable housing to developers.
12:47:58
And so we're constantly incentivizing it, and these incentivizing doesn't work and doesn't create affordable housing.
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The UAP is woefully inefficient and woefully ineffective and doesn't meet the needs of people.
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Right now, the real housing crisis is at rents 1500 and below.
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The UAP will not produce any of that at all.
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It'll produce a few units.
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So let's please spare me this whole thing about, oh, we're we need to be housing migrants.
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You're not housing migrants with that price.
12:48:34
You're not.
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You don't I work.
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I go outside and work with homeless people.
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You're not housing people for $3000 single bedrooms.
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That's what you're producing.
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$4000 market rate, one bedroom.
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I live in a rent stabilization as a partner.
UNKNOWN
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It's Hobbs expired.
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Thank you.
Jeremy Kaplan
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Thanks.
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Stay in the city.
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I stay in the city because of rent stabilization
