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Council Member Sanchez introduces bills to improve Housing Connect system
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Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez discusses the challenges of the Housing Connect system and introduces three new bills aimed at improving the affordable housing application process in New York City. She highlights the disparity between the number of applications received and leases signed, and emphasizes the need for technological improvements.
- Introduced bills: Intro 1264 (addressing wait times for re-rentals), Intro 1265 (ensuring applicants receive updates), and Intro 1266 (creating in-person assistance program)
- Collaboration with housing providers and lottery applicants to develop solutions
- Acknowledgment of UNHP, AURA, and staff members for their work on the bills
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:29:43
Thank you, majority leader.
1:29:44
Between January of twenty fourteen and June of twenty twenty, '6 year period, we had 29,000,000 applications received by Housing Connect compared to 27,819 leases signed.
1:29:57
For as frustrating for as frustrating as it is to search for an affordable apartment in New York City, it's made all the more frustrating by application technology that sometimes causes unnecessary issues.
1:30:08
Over the last two years, my office has been collaborating with housing providers and housing lottery applicants to develop solutions to problems that plague housing connect.
1:30:17
And to that end, I'm proud to introduce three bills today that I hope my colleagues will sign on to.
1:30:22
Twelve sixty four addresses the issue of prolonged and onerous wait times to fill re rentals.
1:30:27
Twelve sixty five ensures applicants or a designee, that's a new thing, get text and email updates about their applications, and twelve sixty six would create a free weekly in person Housing Connect assistance program in certain public locations.
1:30:40
The housing lottery should help people to find, pathways to affordable housing, not be hindrances hindrances.
1:30:47
And so I would like to thank the team at UNHP and the members of AURA as well as the members of my staff for working so hard on this bill, and, of course, to my colleagues who are copriming this.
1:30:58
Thank thank you, to all of you.
1:31:00
Thank you.