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HPD's strategy for utilizing public land for housing
0:48:39
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Acting Commissioner Ahmed Tigani explains HPD's approach to utilizing public land for housing development. He highlights the agency's tradition of building 100% affordable housing on public land, while also considering mixed-income opportunities in certain cases to maximize housing production.
- HPD's focus on 100% affordable housing projects on most public land parcels
- Consideration of mixed-income projects in specific cases to increase overall housing production
- Example of 100 Gold Street project with potential for 2,000 units, including 500 affordable units
Alexa Áviles
0:48:39
Yeah, yeah.
0:48:41
Okay.
0:48:42
In terms of public land, what is HPD's position on how the city should be approaching utilizing public land?
Ahmed Tigani
0:48:52
So HPD has long and proud tradition of building 100% affordable on public land.
0:48:59
I will say that we are looking now, especially given the dramatic need for housing, When you think about specific EOs and initiatives, so we have a citywide initiative looking at public assets, particularly city buildings, places where not only we need to build housing, but maybe we have an out of date facility where there are city workers who could benefit from a new workplace and deserve a better work situation.
0:49:33
So in those projects we've been looking at mixed income opportunities.
0:49:38
Especially where the mixed income opportunity might yield a project where there are more units constructed that would have otherwise not been built in those areas.
0:49:48
An example would be 100 gold of that where you know we are estimating somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 units.
0:49:55
500 of which could possibly would be affordable based on that number and would represent you know 10 times what has been built in that neighborhood before.
0:50:04
But for the majority of our public land, especially those public land parcels, those combination of sites where it has, where there's streamlined ability to build, there's less complication.
0:50:19
We have been putting out 100% affordable projects one after the other.
0:50:24
Twenty four and twenty four last year's commitment is a really good example where we estimate from the eight or nine sites we're involved in, 2,000 units of 100% affordable projects.
Alexa Áviles
0:50:33
Yeah, thank you.