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Council member Sanchez advocates for targeting worst buildings and introduces TPT reform
2:05:22
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Council Member Pierina Sanchez emphasizes the importance of targeting the worst buildings for incentive programs and enforcement. She introduces the Housing Rescue and Resident Protection Act (Intro 1063) as a crucial bill for reforming the Third Party Transfer (TPT) program to address negligent landlords and buildings in poor conditions.
- Sanchez highlights the need to focus on buildings with the worst conditions for incentive programs
- She discusses the limitations of current enforcement programs like the Alternative Enforcement Program
- Sanchez introduces Intro 1063 as a potential solution to revamp the TPT program and target the worst property owners
Pierina Sanchez
2:05:22
Thank you, thank you Councilmember Joseph.
2:05:25
I swear she's not a plant, you might have thought she was a plant.
2:05:30
But just following up on her line of questions, no don't wake up, Okay.
2:05:35
Following up on council member Joseph's line line of questioning, I appreciate hearing that AEP owners are gonna receive special outreach regarding j fifty '1.
2:05:45
You have we've had many conversations where the agency has brought article 11 applications to me and I'm like why is this the building that's you know being considered for an article 11 when there are buildings in much worse shape.
2:05:58
So I hope that the agency can really take that approach of going after the worst buildings of buildings and worst conditions for any of the incentive programs we have right.
2:06:09
And no council member Joseph is not a plant, but she did ask some of the questions that I was going to ask right, because we do have buildings across the city Of New York that have been through many enforcement programs.
2:06:20
Whether it's know it's seven a or it's underlying conditions or it's alternative enforcement, where the alternative enforcement program is supposed to be one of the harshest programs that we have.
2:06:31
You don't fix it within a couple weeks, then it's going to escalate.
2:06:34
You're going to get more inspectors.
2:06:35
You're going to get more fines, and still we have buildings that are falling apart.
2:06:40
And so it's in that context that you know, and I'm a bit biased and been thinking about this policy for so many years, but it's in that context that I believe that one of the most important bills that the council can pass with the administration's support is Intro ten sixty three.
2:06:56
Is the Housing Rescue and Resident Protection Act which would revamp the third party transfer program, right.
2:07:02
Really challenging some of those really bad outcomes that we saw in the past and making sure that the program can go after the worst owners.
2:07:11
So on that front I wanted to ask a couple of questions just as we continue negotiations around third party transfer reform and intro ten sixty three.