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Campbell Munn from Manhattan Community Board 3 on supporting City of Yes for Housing Opportunity without conditions

14:26:40

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Campbell Munn, a resident of the East Village and member of Manhattan Community Board 3, testifies in support of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity initiative without conditions. He emphasizes the need for affordable housing and the potential benefits of the proposed zoning reforms.

  • Munn highlights the high cost of housing in New York City and the historically low vacancy rate
  • He praises the Universal Affordability Preference as a potentially transformative proposal
  • Munn expresses concern about his own future in New York City due to housing costs
  • Support for City of Yes without conditions
  • High housing costs for New Yorkers
  • City of Yes as a generational proposal for critical zoning reforms
  • Need for equal distribution of new housing production across the city
  • Historically low vacancy rates forcing people to leave New York City
  • Support for more housing and affordable housing in every neighborhood
  • Concern about personal future in New York City due to housing costs
  • Support for universal affordability preference proposal

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Which elements of City of Yes for Housing Opportunity were discussed in this testimony?

  • UAP

The following are AI-extracted quotes and reasoning about which elements of the proposal were discussed in this testimony.

This is a quick, close approximation. Occasionally, the connection between a testimony's transcript and specific elements of City Planning's proposal is tenuous.

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UAP

"As will be borne out under critical proposals like the university affordable universal affordability preference, which has the opportunity to realize truly generational and transformative effects, specifically within community board 3."

The speaker directly mentions the Universal Affordability Preference, highlighting its potential for significant impact, which aligns with the UAP element of the City of Yes For Housing Opportunity proposal.


About this analysis:

This analysis is done by AI that reasons whether or not a quote from the testimony discusses a particular element of the proposal.

All the prompts and data are open and available on Github.

You can search for testimonies that mentioned a specific element in the table on the main meeting page.

When an element is explicitly stated in the testimony (e.g. "Universal Affordability Preference" or "UAP"), the analysis is accurate.

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Campbell Munn
14:26:40
Good evening, and thank you
14:26:42
to the commission.
14:26:43
This is rather funny timing I'm getting on the Altran.
14:26:46
So I guess in an indirect way, I'm grateful for Andrew Cuomo's installation of the cell service, which will hopefully be enough for me to testify this evening.
14:27:00
My name is Campbellman, and I am a 5 year resident of the East Village, member of Community Board 3.
14:27:06
I served there on the Landies Committee, and I'm here tonight to support city of yes without conditions.
14:27:12
I will also add that I am here testifying strictly in a personal capacity as I work for the New York City Economic Operation.
14:27:20
Simply put, I pay too much for housing as to countless new owners.
14:27:24
CityVS is a generational proposal that presents the opportunity to realize critical reforms within New York City's zoning code.
14:27:30
These reforms are long overdue, city wide, and for CB 3s.
14:27:35
Community Board 3 has done more than its part in providing new housing, affordable, and market rate, as well as shelter housing in the last decade.
14:27:42
The prospect of a truly city wide proposal, one that sees the burdens and may I make clear the benefits of new housing production equally distributed across the city in a way that has not been possible since the misguided adoption of the mid century urban rural era 1961 zoning code.
14:28:01
These effects are borne out every day as New Yorkers, and I am sad to say many of who are my friends, are forced to leave New York City in light of city's lowest vacancy rate in its history.
14:28:12
I urge employer even, the commission and the city council to move forward with city of yes, for housing opportunity.
14:28:20
Countless New Yorkers like myself were in desperate need of more housing in every neighborhood, more affordable housing in every neighborhood.
14:28:27
As will be borne out under critical proposals like the university affordable universal affordability preference, which has the opportunity to realize truly generational and transformative effects, specifically within community board 3.
14:28:42
I like so many others have testified in support of this proposal I'm concerned about my future in New York City, generations of my family have lived here, and to think that I would be unable to do the same disheartened thing.
14:28:54
So in closing, thank you to the commission for staying this late.
14:28:58
It's the morning now to hear comments both in support and in opposition.
14:29:02
And I wait with baited breath for the relief that I and so many other New Yorkers and our wallets are crying out for.
14:29:10
Thank you.

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