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Public site development opportunities for affordable housing
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Council Member Hudson identifies several city and state-owned sites that could be redeveloped to include affordable housing as part of the AAMUP.
- Sites include: 1024 Fulton Street, school parking lots, and a city-owned property leased to the MTA
- Hudson emphasizes the need to leverage every public site available to mitigate the city's housing crisis
- She suggests the potential to build affordable housing while also expanding and renewing facilities for other city functions
Crystal Hudson
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Through this process, we have identified a number of city and state owned sites that could be redeveloped to include affordable housing, specifically the long empty state owned building at 1024 Fulton Street, school parking lots at the Brooklyn Adult Learning Center on Notre Dame Avenue, and the School for Career Development on Claremont Avenue, and a city owned property leased to the MTA on Atlantic Avenue.
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Last year, this administration ordered that city agencies review all city owned sites for potential housing development.
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If we are truly serious about working to mitigate our city's housing crisis, then we need to leverage every public site available to us to achieve this goal regardless of the challenges.
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We cannot lose this opportunity to create thousands of units of deeply affordable housing.
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And at many of these sites, there is potential to build affordable housing while also expanding and renewing facilities for other city functions such as schools.