PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Romario Rodriguez, Member of Hotel and Gaming Trades Council
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Romario Rodriguez, a kitchen worker at Temple by Hilton and member of the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, testifies in support of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal. He emphasizes the need for affordable housing in Queens, particularly for single parents like himself, and argues that increased housing density would benefit local businesses.
- Urges the council to pass the bill, citing abandoned places in Queens that could be converted to housing
- Supports the idea of reducing parking requirements, suggesting alternatives like city bikes and public transportation
- Emphasizes that affordable housing would allow young people and families to remain in their communities
Romario Rodriguez
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How are you doing, counsel?
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My name is Romero Rodriguez.
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I work at the Temple by Hilton.
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I'm a kitchen store, and I'm here to social support with the union.
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I'm my my hotels and Gaming Train Council.
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I'm over here to support that you guys passed this bill in an urgent I am a resident from Queen's in Moissanite.
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Queen's.
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I do see a lot of abandoned places that I believe should be housing.
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I am a single fine.
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I do believe that I can't, like, simply, like, I can't afford to, like, buy the the nicest thing at the moment, but if I get an opportunity to have some housing to raise my son and make sure that he's good.
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I don't wanna leave my community.
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I'm from Queen's, and I feel like there every city I mean, every district should play the part and let them afford my housing in.
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So you know, why?
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Because it's our community and not all of us are born to this lifestyle that's, you know, a security could afford everything.
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But if you give it if you give somebody a chance that, like, that that has, like, a single file that has 2 incomes coming in, you could afford on something in your neighborhood.
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And the more people that come to the neighborhood is the more money to the businesses around it because there's more people.
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So like me, I strongly urge you guys to to to pass this bill.
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And as well and as well, like, the city, like, with parking and everything, I believe, like, there's there's not that much problem to more people.
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It means, like, transportation, you could put, like, city, bike people don't mind.
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We're in New York.
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We could train we could travel all over it.
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It's just be better for, like, people to stay in their own city to get faster to work.
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Like, and he say, like, like, the housing price just doesn't affect me, but it affects a lot of New Yorkers and, like, young people like me that want a new like, want to stay in their city, but need an opportunity to live there, which will be, like, buildings affordable for eyesight.
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And as well, like, just give us an opportunity to develop because in the future, we're gonna be the ones here at 20 plus years, and we want our city to to develop more and more.
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Thank you.
