PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Rohan Kalyani on City of Yes for Housing Opportunity
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Rohan Kalyani, a 28-year-old resident of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, testified in support of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (CHO) proposal. He emphasized the severe housing shortage in New York City and the challenges faced by young people in finding affordable housing.
- Highlighted the low vacancy rate (1.4%) and high percentage of rent-burdened residents in NYC
- Argued that CHO would allow more housing in every neighborhood without dramatic changes to any single area
- Supported the proposal's potential to end exclusionary zoning practices and promote transit-oriented development
Rohan Kalyani
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Best members.
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I'm here to voice box box port VoIP EBS funding report package.
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I'm the resident of Crown National Brooklyn, and I'm twenty eight years old.
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As the young New Yorker, I've experienced firsthand peace struggles of finding environmental housing in our city, and this idea is echoed by all of the volunteers who could not take time off of work today.
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To come and testify.
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Because that's to be honest, this is very clear.
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New York City faces that you're severe, and it's tortkowski shortage.
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The part of the vacancy rate is as low as 1968.
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Just one one four one percent.
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Over half of rent due to rent burden, spending more than 30% of the rent to own rent.
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And I still spend more than 40% rent.
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And this crisis affects homeless.
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It's particularly challenging for young people to use myself trying to build their lives and factories to see every month.
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As I said, yes.
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The operating a a comprehensive approach to address these crisis by allowing me a little more housing in every neighborhood, which is the duty of every neighborhood.
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We can make a significant impact without any traumatic change to many single area.
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This proposal will enable the creation of all kinds of prototypes from its subjectability areas, human portable apartments, and high density partnerships, new transitions.
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Apparently, Citibank would end exclusionary zone infections that are racist and have eliminated positive options that contribute to his immigration all over the city.
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It's also an important step for numerous climate post as it as it grows, transit points to development, which will allow us to say the ecosystems.
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So for young people like me,
Peter Estes
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it's changed.
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It's it's expired.
Rohan Kalyani
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Thank you.
