REMARKS
Affordable housing crisis and project benefits
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Council Member Hanif contextualizes the Arrow Linen rezoning project within the broader affordable housing crisis in New York City and specifically in Windsor Terrace.
- Highlights the shortage of affordable housing units in the city
- Describes Windsor Terrace as an expensive, transit-rich neighborhood with a reduction in housing units
- Emphasizes the lack of below-market housing construction in the area over the last decade
- Addresses the inadequacy of the original proposal's minimum affordable unit requirement
- Presents the modified project as a response to community needs and the housing crisis
Shahana K. Hanif
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We all know that the city is in a housing crisis that is caused in large part by a shortage of affordable housing units.
0:06:26
This dynamic is particularly announced in Windsor Terrace, which is a beautiful, transit rich, and expensive neighborhood where there has been a reduction in in housing units, and little to no below market housing has been constructed over the last decade.
0:06:41
At the subcommittee's previous hearing, I made it clear that the applicant's original proposal to include only the minimum number of affordable units per the requirements of the MIH program failed to meet the needs of this moment.
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My constituents were united in sharing this assessment regardless of whether they supported or opposed the project presented in January as a whole.
0:07:04
Altogether, this modified project would be a triumph for the Windsor Terrace community.