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Council Member Dinowitz expresses concerns about affordable housing unit distribution
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz expresses concerns about the distribution of affordable housing units, particularly the high percentage of studio and one-bedroom apartments being built. He emphasizes the need for more family-sized units and criticizes the lack of data provided by HPD on this issue.
- Dinowitz points out that HPD's term sheets incentivize 70% studio and one-bedroom apartments
- He highlights the issue of neighborhoods being saturated with smaller units
- Dinowitz stresses the importance of considering apartment size and number of bedrooms, not just the total number of units
- He mentions that he has been requesting this data for a while without success
Eric Dinowitz
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Yeah.
0:38:29
Mean senior housing aside, like a very specific type of housing.
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I can tell you your term sheets incentivize 70% studio and bedroom apartments.
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This is something that's been brought about this hearing time and and again.
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And what we see is neighborhoods saturated with studio and one bedroom apartments.
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And I'm and I've been asking for this data for a while and have not received it.
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And so I'm asking today, as we discuss the budget, how many of those apartments disaggregated by room, a number of rooms have been financed?