Q&A
HPD's role in housing development site planning
0:10:30
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Council Member De La Rosa inquires about HPD's involvement in the early stages of housing development site planning. Deputy Commissioner Tigani explains HPD's role in both public and private site development processes.
- For public sites, HPD is involved in selecting developers and ensuring community needs are met
- For private sites, HPD works with developers using their term sheets and enforces requirements for projects using public subsidies
- Emphasis is placed on community hiring and local sourcing for construction jobs
Carmen N. De La Rosa
0:10:30
What role does HPD play in the approval or procurement during the early stages of housing development site planning process.
Ahmed Tigani
0:10:39
So when it comes to site planning process for public sites, We are often involved obviously through the selection of a desk knee for that site.
0:10:50
They come in with a proposal to develop a project in line with community conversations.
0:10:55
Usually, program plans that have to do with deeply the the the affordability levels on that project, the kind of non housing or residential uses, community needs, programming, healthcare, etcetera.
0:11:10
There's also an emphasis put on their ability to do a strong job recruitment program focused on community hiring and local sourcing of roles on that project related to construction and other related jobs.
0:11:26
On private sites, we are also working with the developers who come to use our term sheets.
0:11:33
In fact, there are many rules and requirements, especially for projects that already use that end up using more than $2,000,000 in public subsidy.
0:11:41
To put together a higher NYC plan.
0:11:43
As you know, the administration has been a strong supporter and moving forward with a new community hiring regime that we look forward to increasing the ranks of people from our neighborhoods where we build to look like people from those new roads.
