PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by John Mudd, Executive Director of Midtown South Community Council
7:25:38
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125 sec
John Mudd, Executive Director of Midtown South Community Council, criticizes the city's development policies and the proposed housing plan. He argues that these policies have led to burdening rents, widening disparity, and increasing homelessness.
- Mudd contends that the "build it and let the free market fix it" approach has been disproven and that commoditizing homes always leads to investors seeking profits at the expense of renters.
- He criticizes the plan for disguising tax giveaways, using problematic methods to determine affordability, and failing to address infrastructure problems.
- Mudd suggests alternative solutions, such as protecting rent-controlled and rent-stabilized stock, and bringing warehouse apartments onto the market.
John Mudd
7:25:38
Hi.
7:25:39
My name is John Biden with the executive director of the Midtown South Community Council, and I've been living in Midtown since 84.
7:25:47
The council has been around just as long with working with agencies and elected officials and and nonprofits activists, and and we work on the housing health and food needs.
7:25:59
The city's development policies are largely to blame for our burdening rents for health and widening disparity and increasing homelessness.
7:26:07
To build it and let it let the free market fix it, gimmick, was disproven a long time ago.
7:26:14
The continual commoditizing of homes will always have the investor looking for more profits at the expenses of the renter.
7:26:22
The housing crisis is decades old.
7:26:25
We haven't made any real attempts to solve it.
7:26:28
Our infrastructures archaic agencies of oversight are understaffed.
7:26:32
The responses are at a snail pace.
7:26:34
Things haven't changed.
7:26:36
Rather than produce the kinds of housing needed to protect our rent controlled and rent stabilized stock and bring 64,000 warehouse apartment apartments off onto the market.
7:26:49
We're making deals with developers and securing their investment by ins by ensuring development friendly folks are in office, running the rent guideline boards, sitting on the community boards to manufacture consent for their communities.
7:27:03
Our housing policy in general serves the developers best interest.
7:27:07
It does little ease, little to ease, the cost burdens and the end to end homelessness housing on an affordable crisis.
7:27:15
The plan disguises a tax giveaway as intensive uses a repackaged problematic 421A tax giveaway and the problematic AMI to determine what's affordable.
7:27:26
It continues using the dysfunctional voucher system to subsidize landlords.
7:27:31
And it has no mandate for the right to right to housing.
7:27:35
The plan doesn't resolve the infrastructure problems.
7:27:40
Oh, that's quick.
Kevin C. Riley
7:27:42
Thank you, John.
7:27:43
You could submit the rest of your testimony on the lane used testament accounts dotnrc.gov.
