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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
2:23:24
Sorry, Brian.
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.
2:23:32
check that.
2:23:33
Yeah.
2:23:34
And I don't
2:23:36
I almost That's so much of fear taxed it.
2:23:38
That's so bullying.
2:23:54
I know.
2:24:31
So if they don't go rad and packed?
2:24:34
Because like all If doesn't have be rad
2:24:52
because things could change.
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.
Jonathan Gouveia
2:23:22
I mean, Brian, do you want to respond to that?
2:24:30
health of those developments.
Brian Honan
2:23:25
No, it's okay.
2:23:34
mean that as fear.
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.
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
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
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
2:24:53
They could.
2:25:04
Mhmm.
Zulai Velasquez
2:23:32
You have to
Chris Banks
2:24:19
still the forty second.
2:24:20
Still the forty second.