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Potential solutions for CUNY School of Medicine student housing
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Council Member Brewer and Dr. Green discuss potential solutions to address the housing needs of CUNY School of Medicine students. They explore various options and resources that could be leveraged to provide affordable housing for students.
- Suggestion to incorporate housing into plans for new school facilities
- Consideration of using hotels and SROs as they become available after housing migrants
- Discussion of working with the Dormitory Authority and CUNY to secure funding for student housing
- Acknowledgment that while housing is a challenge for all CUNY students, medical students have particularly pressing needs due to their demanding schedules
Gale A. Brewer
1:04:11
So I would suggest wherever you're looking for new space, that housing should be should be part of it if possible.
Carmen Renée Green
1:04:17
Yeah.
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So it's hard to to disentangle which, priority first.
1:04:23
And we've decided that the medical education building, our facilities are so challenged.
1:04:30
It's a beautiful building.
1:04:31
Don't get me wrong.
1:04:32
Why?
1:04:33
But it was designed for a high school in the 200 years ago.
1:04:38
And we don't have state of the art facilities in regards to You know, they have to travel even for that.
1:04:44
So we I believe my our students deserve the best that we can give them.
1:04:52
And
Gale A. Brewer
1:04:54
Well, one suggestion is I mean, I won't belittle it, but as the migrants move, some of these hotels and SROs are going to be available.
1:05:02
I'm working on some now to just to keep that in mind.
1:05:05
So that would be something that CUNY should pay more attention to, and also, dormitory authority.
1:05:11
The way it works, as you know, is CUNY has to come up with the money, but dormitory authority will assist, just FYI.
1:05:17
So I don't know.
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I I know housing is a big problem for all CUNY students Yeah.
1:05:20
But yours in particular because of the kind of hours they have.
Carmen Renée Green
1:05:24
Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
Gale A. Brewer
1:05:25
The other question I have, do you have Macaulay students?