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HPD responds to concerns about affordable housing unit types

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Acting Commissioner Ahmed Tigani responds to Council Member Dinowitz's concerns about the distribution of affordable housing unit types. Tigani acknowledges the feedback received on this issue and explains some of the challenges and considerations in developing affordable housing.

HPD commits to providing detailed data on unit types financed
Tigani explains that studio and one-bedroom units serve many individual or two-person households
He mentions challenges related to site constraints and financing goals
Council Member Dinowitz emphasizes the need to focus on people and families rather than just numbers

Ahmed Tigani

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I can say today we'll prioritize getting you the full aggregate and detailed number.

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I will just also say that when we look at stats about the availability of units and where we're finding a significant challenge of connecting people to affordable homes, there are many individual or two person households which our studio and one bedrooms also serve.

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So it is often us trying to connect the data with the development capacity we're trying to build to create affordable connections.

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But I will acknowledge that there's absolutely a lot of feedback we've gotten on this question.

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We have seen sometimes in our building on public sites to work with the financing, and then also the actual footplate of the site.

0:39:51

Right?

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You need a building that meets a certain number of units so we can make both the affordability goals and all the rest of the goals with our term sheets work.

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That said Right.

Eric Dinowitz

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Every time yeah.

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It just seems every time it's it's you know, HPD, I think, and the mayor want to have a great press release which says we've done x number of units.

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But I think most of us who look for an apartment aren't interested in unit.

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We're interested in apartment size, number of bedrooms.

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So whereas you see numbers on a spreadsheet, we see people, people and families who need apartments.

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And it's just been a real struggle just to simply get data on what you're financing.

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