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Council Member Sanchez outlines the current housing crisis and challenges
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Council Member Sanchez describes the housing crisis in New York City, highlighting various challenges and inequities in the current system. She questions the administration's response to these issues and calls for more substantial action.
- She mentions a stark imbalance between landlords and tenants, fueled by rampant inequities.
- Sanchez criticizes the federal administration for dismantling housing support for those most in need.
- She points out issues with land use distribution and deteriorating building conditions due to historic disinvestment.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
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At our preliminary budget hearing in March, I spoke of an inflection point that our city is facing.
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A stark imbalance between landlords and tenants fueled by rampant inequities.
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A federal administration that, as we speak, is dismantling housing support for those most in need.
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A land use regime that distributes housing unfairly, asking the same communities again and again to bear a disproportionate burden.
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And as a result of historic disinvestment and deferred maintenance, a deteriorating building stock that subjects our neighbors to living conditions that no one should have to endure.
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This is the inflection point, but how will we respond?
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Will we continue calling this a housing crisis without crisis level investments to house our neighbors?
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Will this administration continue to take victory laps, claiming back to back years of shattering affordable housing records, all while refusing to implement expanded access to housing vouchers and failing to fulfill its city faps commitments from city of yes?
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We are truly in the midst of a housing crisis.
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Why does it take one year to assign a project manager for a preservation deal with nearly 14% of funded HPD staff positions remaining vacant, triple the average across all agencies?
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Why is just 1.3% of the mayor's budget devoted to our lead housing agency?
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I recognize the work, the hard work of our public servants at HPD and call on the mayor to do more to resource you.
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In the council as housing chair, I have championed bold legislative steps that treat the housing crisis as such and have consistently advocated for transformative investments in HPD.
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But the council is only one part of this equation.