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NYCHA officials detail climate resilience programs and funding

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NYCHA officials respond to Council Member Ossé's questions about climate change preparedness, outlining various programs and funding sources for fortifying developments against extreme weather events.

NYCHA's $3 billion Sandy Recovery and Resilience Program is highlighted as a major initiative.
Officials mention ongoing negotiations with FEMA for disaster recovery funding related to tropical storm Ida.
$51 million secured for managing extreme rain at Hope and Bushwick Gardens developments is discussed.

Siobhan Watson

1:10:57

Thank you for the question.

1:10:58

And definitely agree with you that climate change makes the need to upgrade our systems much more pressing.

1:11:04

So we do have a number of programs that are active that are working to fortify our developments.

1:11:09

The biggest, of course, is our Sandy Recovery and Resilience Program that has made over $3,000,000,000 of investments in those developments impacted by Sandy.

1:11:19

But as you referenced, we've also been experiencing impacts of extreme rain, particularly as a result of tropical storm Ida and then the extreme rains after Ophelia that came, over a year ago.

1:11:34

So our program to manage the impacts of tropical storm Ida is a disaster recovery program that we are still in active negotiation with FEMA to finalize the awards to do that repair and mitigation.

1:11:49

We're hopeful that those awards will be finalized in the first half of twenty twenty five for the 13 developments that had significant damage due to Ida.

1:12:00

In addition to FEMA funding that we are actively applying for, the City's Office of Management and Budget, is managing HUD's CDBG Doctor funding related to Ida.

1:12:13

And, a number of, a number of programs have been funded through that allocation as well.

1:12:21

So among those include a local match that's required for FEMA funds.

1:12:26

Mhmm.

1:12:27

Some additional, dollars to deal with unmet mitigation needs as part of the the heavily affected developments.

1:12:35

And then we also secured $51,000,000 to manage extreme rain at Hope and Bushwick Gardens, which were 2 developments that were already in the PACT program that began experiencing extreme rain.

1:12:47

And so there's active construction at Hope and Bushwick Gardens to elevate boilers and protect them from extreme rain.

Chi A. Ossé

1:12:53

I think I think that's that's that's definitely helpful.

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