Patrick Boyle
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My name is Patrick Boyle.
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I'm a senior director with Enterprise Community Partners, National Affordable Housing Nonprofit Organization.
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I want to thank the chair and the members of the committee for the opportunity to deliver testimony about this critically important program as one of the organizations that played a leading role in informing the creation and structure of the TPT program initially and as a member of the 2021 the working group that released a set of recommendations in 2021.
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Enterprise is very invested in the program's future and and success.
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As you know, there were many concerns about how properties were included in the program and how the program was administered previously, and we shared in those concerns.
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And to that end, we're pleased that intro 1063 has been introduced and that TPT is on a pathway to being relaunched.
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We feel this legislation takes clear measures to be responsive to the chief concerns over TPT, and overall, there's a significant step in the right direction.
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Toward a more targeted and transparent program for owners and residents.
3:00:09
We have a number of components of the bill that we'll respond to.
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In the testimony, one is the the the new methodology that's created that replaces the block pickup requirement, which we feel like is an appropriate balance.
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And we feel like is a is a methodology that is focusing on the most distressed assets and and feel like it's a real step in the right direction in terms of the the prior methodology from the previous iteration of the program.
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A few other notes on sort of interim and long term ownership.
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Given the conditions of the buildings and the residents living in these conditions, we feel that the most sort of important component of the interim owner and the long term ownership should really be about who has the capacity and the expertise and the resources to bring these properties up to rehab standards, to work with residents, to work through complicated legal processes.
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So legislation should not define who the entities are that should be part of this process, but rather it should be driven by who has the expertise and the capacity to be able to take on this work.
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And I'll just wrap up very briefly by saying that the relaunch of the TPT program and sort of all the provisions of this bill, we feel like there's a real benefit to leaving some of this prescription up to city agencies.
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On outreach, on method of outreach, on sort of language of outreach, that certain components of the bill, all the prescriptive nature that's written into the legislation, just, you know, could potentially open up to lawsuits and other other challenges down the line.
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So we do see some benefit to that agency flexibility in this process rather than being so heavily prescribed in the legislation.
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But for more nuanced responses to the bill, we'll we'll direct you to the written testimony and just thank you again for the opportunity.
