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Introduction to Fifth Avenue Committee
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Michelle de la Uz introduces Fifth Avenue Committee, a 47-year-old nonprofit comprehensive community development corporation focused on advancing economic, social, and racial justice in New York City.
- Fifth Avenue Committee has built over 1,500 units of affordable housing
- The organization exclusively focuses on affordable housing, including new construction and preservation
- Fifth Avenue Committee was selected to develop the Brownsville NCP parcels in June 2017
Michelle de la Uz
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Thanks for the opportunity.
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Appreciate everybody's presence here.
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So, I think many folks are familiar with Fifth Avenue Committee, but if you're not, we're a 47 old nonprofit comprehensive community development corporation whose mission is to advance economic, social and racial justice in New York City.
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One of the ways that we do that is to build and manage affordable housing.
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We've built over 1,500 units.
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We can actually go to the next slide, I'm sorry.
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We've built an, over 1,500 units.
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Actually, this needs to be slightly updated, know.
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We're very productive, in our partnership with with HPD in the last four years.
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And so, you know, we've done, you know, new construction ground up and preservation of affordable housing and we exclusively focus on affordable housing.
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And we're excited that we would be able to serve the Brownsville community through this project, through this infill project.
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We can go on to the next slide.
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Hara talked a little bit about this already.
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So as you can see, the three sites are, you know, not that far apart but also not that close together, in in the community of Brownsville.
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And you see the two that are, in council member Mealy's district which would be built as of right on Mother Gaston Boulevard and Thomas Boiland.
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And then Saint Mark's project in council member nurses district, which would be a rezoning, and allow, you know, moving from manufacturing to residential and help serve the broader community.
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You can go on to the next slide.