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Debate over resident voting process for RAD/PACT conversions
2:07:36
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Chair Chris Banks presses NYCHA officials on the lack of a formal voting process for residents in RAD/PACT conversions. NYCHA leadership defends their engagement process but confirms no formal voting is in place.
- NYCHA does not currently have a commitment to formal resident voting on RAD/PACT conversions
- NYCHA claims to exceed HUD requirements for resident engagement
- Chair Banks insists on the importance of allowing residents to make the decision on conversions
- NYCHA emphasizes their extensive engagement process and tenant association involvement
Chris Banks
2:07:36
In the pipeline.
2:07:36
Okay.
2:07:42
And those converted all those developments down in the pipeline to be converted, I mean I have to get this on the record again.
2:07:52
Is there a commitment to a lot of those NYCHA developments to have a formal voting process?
Brian Honan
2:08:02
No, not at this time.
Chris Banks
2:08:10
And again, since you won't be allowing those residents to weigh in on whether or not they wanna go rad, Are you comfortable with moving forward with those conversions without having support from the residents?
Lisa Bova-Hiatt
2:08:32
NYCHA does more in the way of engagement authority and more than what's required by HUD.
2:08:42
HUD requires public housing authorities to have two meetings before making the decision to convert through the Rad Impact program.
Chris Banks
2:08:52
How many meetings have you increased it by?
2:08:56
Two weeks.
2:08:57
Only prior to have two.
Lisa Bova-Hiatt
2:08:58
We have years of engagement and an incredible amount of time and effort is spent by our red unit.
2:09:14
We also have the tenant association involved in choosing the PAC developer.
2:09:22
So the engagement is deep, the engagement is real and of course Chair Banks if you have any suggestions on how you think we should leaving voting aside
Chris Banks
2:09:35
Well, that that that's that's my number one suggestion.
2:09:38
Allow the residents to
Lisa Bova-Hiatt
2:09:39
make improve our engagement.
Chris Banks
2:09:40
Make that decision.
Lisa Bova-Hiatt
2:09:41
Yeah.
2:09:41
We're we're happy to talk to you about that.
2:09:44
No.
Chris Banks
2:09:44
No.
2:09:44
I I wanna continue this conversation because we obviously it's clear that NYCHA and the administration is is hell bent on converting more developments.
2:09:58
And we just wanna make sure that the residents obviously are able to weigh in on that, not through not after the fact, but before the process begins.