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Council Member Sanchez urges support for City of Yes zoning plan and related legislation
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Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez delivers a passionate speech urging her colleagues to vote in favor of the City of Yes zoning plan and the accompanying $5 billion investment package. She emphasizes the critical nature of addressing the housing crisis and the positive impact these measures will have on New Yorkers.
- Sanchez highlights the creation of 80,000 new homes and the stabilization of over 20,000 families through housing vouchers.
- She mentions her own bills, including legislation on accessory dwelling units and the reestablishment of the J-51 tax incentive program.
- The council member frames the vote as a choice between supporting all New Yorkers or maintaining the status quo.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
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Thank you, majority leader.
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We are in the throes of a housing crisis, an affordability crisis with a near zero citywide vacancy rate for the most affordable housing.
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If you lose your affordable home today, you will not find another tomorrow.
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That is why our vote today, colleagues, to overhaul the city zoning code to enable the creation of a little more housing in every neighborhood paired with $5,000,000,000 in investments that our speaker negotiated on this council's behalf is so important.
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Our actions here today will aid tens of thousands of New Yorkers.
0:31:40
Colleagues, I urge you to think big picture as you cast your votes today.
0:31:44
A no vote is no to $5,000,000,000 for more deeply affordable housing, housing vouchers stabilizing over 20,000 families, expanded homeownership opportunities, stabilization of Mitchell Lama's infrastructure, neighborhood planning, all secured by our speaker.
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A no vote is no to 80,000 more homes in the next 10 years.
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This isn't about any one of us as individuals or even our own political calculus.
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It isn't it isn't even about the community that we might represent.
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A yes vote today is a vote for all New Yorkers.
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I want to thank all of our advocates to our speaker for your extraordinary leadership in getting us to this point and to all the staff who worked to get city of yes and city for all to the point it is today.
0:32:39
Colleagues, let's do the right thing and I will mention that I have 3 bills that are also companion bills to city of yes.
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1127 and 28 make accessory dwelling units safer for all and 654 reestablishes j 51 the j 51 tax incentives, which will save a 166,000 families living in our co ops and condos across the city 1,000 of dollars each year so they can green their homes.
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Thank you so much, majority leader.
