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Council Member Brewer addresses Mitchell-Lama program and planning silos
1:15:05
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Council Member Gale A. Brewer discusses the Mitchell-Lama housing program and expresses frustration with siloed operations in city planning, emphasizing the need for inter-agency collaboration.
- Brewer praises the Mitchell-Lama program as 'the best housing program ever conceived' and suggests the need for a potential 'Mitchell-Lama 2.0'.
- She criticizes the lack of coordination between city agencies such as City Planning, HPD, and others in addressing housing issues.
- Brewer questions whether non-siloed discussions occur in city planning, expressing concern about the disconnect between planning and financial support for lower AMI housing.
Gale A. Brewer
1:15:05
The other thing is just the Mitchell Armour program was the best housing program ever conceived.
1:15:11
And so it what's frustrating to me was city planning because it's supposed to be planning is that, obviously, the state has to okay a Bachelorette Lama two point o or whatever it would be.
1:15:21
But, you know, city planning, like this chair said, HCC, HFA, HPD everybody should be talking about this.
1:15:30
Always think we're operating in silos, and that's one of our problems.
1:15:34
In other words, you could do the planning, but there's no money, no support for the in my opinion, also for the lower, AMIs.
1:15:42
And, you know, what are we doing?
1:15:44
So does that does that kind of non silo discussion come up?
1:15:48
Or is it just we're gonna plan the way we don't we don't need to talk to anybody else?