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Concerns raised about Stuyvesant Town's future without RAD/PACT conversion
2:22:35
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Council Member Darlene Mealy questions NYCHA representatives about a previous statement suggesting that Stuyvesant Town might not have a future if it doesn't undergo RAD/PACT conversion.
- A statement was made implying Stuyvesant Town's future is at risk without RAD/PACT conversion
- Council Member Mealy characterizes this statement as a 'scare tactic'
- NYCHA representatives defend the statement, citing concerns about long-term underfunding of public housing
- The exchange highlights tensions between NYCHA's push for RAD/PACT conversions and some council members' skepticism about the program
Darlene Mealy
2:22:35
Who is in charge?
2:22:36
I could speak to Brian Holden about it, because I must say that's the only one I could ever reach.
2:22:42
I thank you.
2:22:43
I talk about you when you're bad.
2:22:45
I'm talking about you when you're good too.
2:22:47
But out of whole Niger, that's the only one I could talk to.
2:22:50
So so I could speak to him and see where locally contractors was involved in this.
2:22:57
I have one more question because now it makes no sense to even be here because I'm not hearing anything real and concrete.
2:23:06
The young man just oh, mister Brian Holden said that if Stuyvesant do not go rat and pack, it may not be there for the future.
2:23:20
Did
Jonathan Gouveia
2:23:22
I mean, Brian, do you want to respond to that?
Darlene Mealy
2:23:24
Sorry, Brian.
Brian Honan
2:23:25
No, it's okay.
Darlene Mealy
2:23:26
I'm coming for you.
2:23:28
It's okay.
2:23:30
We made a statement like Sure.
2:23:31
Yeah.
2:23:32
No.
Zulai Velasquez
2:23:32
You have to
Darlene Mealy
2:23:32
check that.
2:23:33
Yeah.
2:23:34
And I don't
Brian Honan
2:23:34
mean that as fear.
Darlene Mealy
2:23:36
I almost That's so much of fear taxed it.
2:23:38
That's so bullying.
Brian Honan
2:23:40
Council member, it's not bullying, and I don't mean it as a fear.
2:23:42
I do have a fear for the public housing program in general.
2:23:46
It has not been funded the way it is it was supposed to be funded for generations, for as long as I've been doing this, which is quite some time now.
Darlene Mealy
2:23:54
I know.
Brian Honan
2:23:54
So, we are seeing issues that I've never seen before.
2:24:00
We had to tell all the residents to live in Bronx River addition that they couldn't live there anymore because we couldn't provide heat.
2:24:11
In Council Member Banks' former district at Ferentino Plaza, we converted before we converted It's
Chris Banks
2:24:19
still the forty second.
2:24:20
Still the forty second.
Brian Honan
2:24:21
Alright.
2:24:22
Okay.
2:24:22
But there are more and more conditions I'm seeing that are so serious that I do fear for the long term
Jonathan Gouveia
2:24:30
health of those developments.
Darlene Mealy
2:24:31
So if they don't go rad and packed?
2:24:34
Because like all If doesn't have be rad
Brian Honan
2:24:35
and packed, we have to find investment.
2:24:37
If we can find investment another way Okay.
2:24:40
To you know, that that that's fine.
2:24:43
But right now, the only thing that the federal government is offering for public housing developments is RADM.
2:24:51
Okay.
2:24:52
Can't
Darlene Mealy
2:24:52
because things could change.
Brian Honan
2:24:53
They could.
Darlene Mealy
2:24:54
So and that gives me to the next question I wanna ask.
2:24:59
You just said that someone talked about foreclosure.
Brian Honan
2:25:04
Mhmm.
Darlene Mealy
2:25:04
So if no one do anything with Rad and Pac or if if any TA president as a collective fire development Mhmm.