Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Arlene Jeter, Vice President of the Tenant Association at Stapleton Houses
3:03:56
ยท
152 sec
Arlene Jeter, a long-time resident of Stapleton Houses in Staten Island, urges the city council to prioritize public housing investment by allocating $1.5 billion towards NYCHA's capital funding. She describes the poor living conditions and safety issues at Stapleton Houses, emphasizing the need for urgent repairs and upgrades.
- Stapleton Houses, the largest NYCHA development in Staten Island, faces issues with building security, unsanitary conditions, and threats to resident safety.
- The development experienced a three-day blackout due to outdated electrical systems, severely impacting disabled and elderly residents.
- Jeter mentions a year-long gas outage, highlighting the critical need for infrastructure improvements.
Arlene Jeter
3:03:56
Greetings chair banks and members of the council committee on public housing.
3:04:02
My name is Arlene Jeter.
3:04:04
I am a resident of Staten Stapleton tenant mean, Stapleton houses in Staten Island.
3:04:13
Thank you for the opportunity to submit my testimony today.
3:04:17
I urge the council to prioritize public housing invest investment in this year's budget putting 1,500,000,000.0 towards NYCHA's capital funding.
3:04:33
I've lived in Stapleton Houses since 1992, raised my children there.
3:04:39
It is the largest NYCHA development in Staten Island with 700 apartments and thousands of residents and is often listed as the worst development.
3:04:54
People who do not live there in the development break the locks in the buildings and the doors and the and smoke in the hallways, urinate, poop in the stair hall, and threaten make threat and, you know, they threaten residents making them feel unsafe.
3:05:14
We had a blackout where the electricity was out for three days and like for a month for a couple of months we had the generators going on and off, you know.
3:05:37
They said the reason was because electricity the electrical went out and the wires were old, they needed upgrades years ago.
3:05:50
This was especially hard on the disabled and elderly residents who could not keep up their medicine could not keep their medicines cold or the elevators.
Chris Banks
3:06:00
Thirty seconds to
Arlene Jeter
3:06:02
wrap Fourteen to go to their appointments or even breathe with their respirators.
3:06:07
I was a tenant I was the vice president of the tenant association when the gas was out And it was out of almost for a year.
3:06:20
This funding is important so our issues do not escalate further.
3:06:27
Thank you for your time.