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Micah Hunter from NHP Foundation on City of Yes for Housing Opportunity and its impact on affordable housing crisis

6:20:37

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Micah Hunter, a project manager at NHP Foundation and former HPD and ACS employee, testifies in support of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal. He shares personal experiences and professional insights on the urgent need for affordable housing in New York City, highlighting the positive impacts on families and communities.

Emphasizes the housing crisis in NYC, citing statistics on housing unit shortages compared to household growth
Discusses the changing demographics affecting housing needs, including baby boomers and workforce housing demands
Urges the Commission to vote in support of the proposal, stating it will help build a city that meets all residents' needs

Personal experience of having to leave Bed-Stuy due to rising costs
Housing crisis and need for more affordable housing
Discrepancy between household growth and new housing units in NYC
Positive impact of affordable housing on families
Changing demographics affecting housing needs (e.g., baby boomers, workforce housing)
City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal as a step to address housing issues

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Micah Hunter

6:20:37

Yes.

6:20:37

Okay.

6:20:39

Good afternoon or evening.

6:20:41

Members of New York City Planning Commission.

6:20:44

My name is Mike Hunter.

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I'm a project manager at the NHP Foundation Organizations in New York City headquartered nonprofit real estate organization dedicated to reserving and creating sustainable service rich multifamily housing as well affordable to low and moderate income families, seniors and beneficial to their communities.

6:21:01

We were formed in 1989 by Congress.

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What is very purpose.

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I myself am also a resident of Laurelton Queens, a lifelong native New Yorker from bedside.

6:21:13

Or in battery service in Brooklyn, New York.

6:21:16

I'd say 6 years ago, my growing family of 3, actually not 4, We had to leave our neighborhood due to rising cost in our best eye.

6:21:26

We like many families of African and Caribbean stent lived the community for about 30 years or so could now no longer afford to live there.

6:21:34

So this resulted in dramatic change in the landscape of our community.

6:21:39

We moved to Orange And Queens in a affordable home there.

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I am also a former employee of HPD Housing press release development.

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Also, I'm a former employee of Administration of Children's Services.

6:21:51

At the HV, I actually used to review all of the affordable housing, new construction projects.

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And then also at ACS, I was investigating child abuse collect.

6:22:01

I saw and I'm now fortunate to build homes for a lot of the families that I want service both in the agencies and I see the change, mothers that would work 3 or 4 jobs cannot supervise their children because they can't pay the rent now, in buildings now that they can live and only have one job and able to watch a child.

6:22:20

And I've seen a lot of, you know, positive is obviously there.

6:22:24

I won't get into all the statistics.

6:22:27

I will just say that there is housing crisis, tank community logistics, due to as much new housing at the remaining 49 districts combined since 2021 New York City has added 275,000 households with only 600,000 units housing.

6:22:41

This discrepancy is an acceptable, unsustainable highly intelligent need for city wide action.

6:22:48

Again, I worked on projects in my current capacity from New York, all the way to Colorado, I've seen it overnight where families, teachers become homeless overnight.

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I'll also say that based on our organization now, we also on some research.

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NHP, we are acutely aware that new populations were rapidly changing the current Phase IV housing.

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Influx of big boomers, there's workforce housing, numbers high as 100,000 a day find themselves near affordable housing.

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The first time in our lives.

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Many of us are living one paycheck away from, you know, being homeless.

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So I'd say the city of yes are filed in opportunity proposals by those steps.

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To address these issues.

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We urge the Commission to vote in support of the proposal.

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We believe that this course acts will help build a city that meets the needs of all of its residents.

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