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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Leah Goodridge's testimony for reappointment to the City Planning Commission
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Leah Goodridge, nominated for reappointment to the City Planning Commission, emphasizes her focus on housing affordability based on her decade-long experience as a tenants rights attorney. She highlights the importance of understanding the real-world implications of housing proposals on New Yorkers facing eviction or struggling with high rents.
- Goodridge has served on the City Planning Commission for about four years
- She stresses the need for truly affordable housing, noting that many "low income" proposals are still unaffordable for most New Yorkers
- Goodridge aims to amplify understanding of complex city planning procedures if reappointed for another five-year term
Leah Goodridge
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Good morning chair powers and members of the city council.
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I am honored to be nominated for reappointment to the city planning commission, which I've been on for about the last four years.
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Before joining the city planning commission, I spent at least a decade as a tenants rights attorney and I listened to the stories of New Yorkers who were facing eviction, why they were facing eviction and being pushed out of the city.
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And by the time that I joined the city planning commission where most of the work surrounds housing, most of the proposals are housing proposals by private developers, that really informed a lot of my information on voting on these proposals.
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So my focus has been housing affordability.
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When these proposals come before us sometimes they are for $3,000 low income studios and the first thing I think about are the clients that I represented and whether they can afford them and almost none of them can.
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I can't afford a $3,000 studio, so for my focus for the last four years and if we appointed for the next five would be on housing affordability and amplifying what happens in the very complex procedures of city planning.
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So I am honored again to be here and also to talk a bit more about city planning and I hope to be reappointed.