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Council Member Chris Banks opens hearing on NYCHA and federal monitorship
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Council Member Chris Banks opens a hearing on the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and its federal monitorship. He discusses the 2019 agreement between NYCHA, the city, and HUD, highlighting progress made and challenges ahead. Banks emphasizes the importance of keeping residents' lives in focus amidst discussions of goals and metrics.
- Banks introduces the new co-monitors appointed by HUD and expresses interest in their findings
- He acknowledges NYCHA's progress over the past 5 years but notes there is still work to be done
- The hearing aims to assess NYCHA's compliance with the HUD agreement and plans for the future
Chris Banks
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I'm calling this meeting to order.
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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I'm councilman Chris Banks, the charity committee on public housing.
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And I'm glad to be joined by my colleagues, committee members as yet, but they'll be here.
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In 2019, the agreement between Nitro and the city and HUD laid out clearly that there had to be a top to bottom changes in how Nitro operates and put a federal monitor in place to oversee that change.
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Over the past 5 years, Nitra has undergoing serious changes under the federal monitorship with some real progress being made impacting Nitra Tenet's lives.
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But even that with that progress, there is still lots of work to do.
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As we start the 2nd 5 year monitor ship program, this committee wants to know clearly where Naira is in terms of their obligations under the HUD agreement as well as their plans for the future.
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We are glad to be joined by the 2 new comonitors who were appointed by HUD to hear what they have found as they've begun their work.
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I'm interested to know what they believe Nitro needs to do to come into full compliance with the HUD agreement and position Nitro in a place of stability for the future of all nature residents.
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Today's hearing will be full of goals, metrics, numbers, but I want to make sure that we also always keep in mind how these goals ultimately rate relate to the tenets of Nietzsche developments and their lives.
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I look forward to hearing from the Monitors, Nietzsche, and Nietzsche's tenets about how we can all keep Nietzsche moving forward.
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I would like to thank my staff, Michael Lambert, and the public housing committee staff, Jose, Connor, Dan, Nicholas, Christopher, and Charles for all the work they've put into this hearing.
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We will first hear today from Neil Borosky and Matthew Chipotle, the co monitors for Nitro.
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Thank you.
