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Balancing fairness and efficiency in the new re-rental pilot program
1:13:29
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120 sec
Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez raises concerns about maintaining fairness in the new re-rental pilot program while improving efficiency. HPD Acting Commissioner Ahmed Tigani addresses these concerns and explains the agency's approach to balancing these priorities.
- Marketing agents and owners are expected to maintain records and follow established rules to ensure fairness
- HPD acknowledges that the previous re-rental system was not meeting expectations for filling vacant units quickly
- The agency aims to get 'more heads on beds' while allowing buildings to meet operating costs through rental income
- HPD will monitor compliance and can rescind the waiver if rules are not followed
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:13:29
And so how how is the agency thinking about right.
1:13:33
There's there's always in our conversations, there's always this trade off between fairness and the amount of time that it takes to run through, whether it's a new building or or the re rentals.
1:13:44
So what is your assessment in the pilot program of how fairness is gonna continue to be insured?
Ahmed Tigani
1:13:51
We've had pretty lengthy conversations with the marketing agents and owners.
1:13:55
I think they they they understand, and many of them have been themselves longtime advocates for this kind of approach to housing.
1:14:03
So, and and they already have within their framework the rules and regs that they've built through either initial lotteries or rentals that we have.
1:14:13
They will be applying that framework to an existing in house system and being able to execute thereafter.
1:14:21
They understand that the the responsibility for to maintain that records is real and that we would come in and and check to make sure that that's happening.
1:14:30
We we do believe that maybe more more importantly, the system that we built around re rentals did not live up to our expectations about where that is.
1:14:40
And there's some percentage of units that are not being rented up fast enough, which is bad for people.
1:14:46
We need to get more heads on beds, as I said before.
1:14:49
And we also need to allow these buildings that are having their own difficulties with meeting operating costs, the ability to get in rental income so they can provide quality housing for, those tenants.
1:15:01
And they and many of them have maintained, connection to people who have been on a waiting list, have met a certain set of criteria and rules.
1:15:10
And so this is something we think is worth evaluating, and we believe we are working with partners who have done this already with us in one way, and will transition to this pilot with similar, you know, efficiency.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:15:27
Thank you.
1:15:28
Thank you.
1:15:28
Appreciate that.