Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Beverly MacFarlane, President of Taft Houses Resident Council
5:06:40
·
135 sec
Beverly MacFarlane, President of Taft Houses Resident Council, strongly criticizes NYCHA for mismanagement, poor living conditions, and ineffective use of funds. She expresses frustration with NYCHA's failure to meet consent decree requirements and questions the need for additional funding given the ongoing RAD/PACT conversions.
- Accuses NYCHA of lying to council officials and maintaining poor living conditions
- Criticizes NYCHA's organizational structure, suggesting too many high-paying executive positions
- Questions NYCHA's funding needs and management of RAD/PACT conversions
- Calls for accountability and better use of resources to improve public housing conditions
Beverly MacFarlane
5:06:40
Can you hear me?
5:06:43
Hello?
5:06:44
Yes.
5:06:44
Good afternoon, to the council officials.
5:06:50
Thank you very much for having this.
5:06:52
But let's be clear.
5:06:54
NYCHA have just lied to y'all, guys, as always, and it's and it's really disgusting that we have to live in these conditions.
5:07:03
NYCHA had it have never satisfied the active consent decree that is already on the book, and that's why we have a federal monitor.
5:07:13
The countless dollars of and that they are they they are executive boards.
5:07:18
They have over a hundred vice chairs, vice presidents, deputy to the deputy to the deputy to the deputies than that high paying.
5:07:29
They need to reduce their staff in order to get the funding that is needed to get our buildings done.
5:07:36
My my again, I'm the vice chair of residence to preserve public housing, also the president of Taft Housing.
5:07:46
And here, my my development look like it is Racus Island with all these scaffolds and and the countless dollars that they NYCHA is invest investing in these third party vendors instead of fixing our homes is ridiculous.
5:08:05
And I don't understand if NYCHA is moving all these money grab situations, transitions into Rad Impact conversions.
5:08:13
Why do they need 70,000,000 billion dollars to correct the current the the ones that are in section nine?
5:08:24
They should have more money to to rehab our apartments and make necessary repairs instead of less money if they're moving.
5:08:33
They are not letting Rad and Pack conversions if they being accountable.
5:08:37
They once they transition these, developments, they have nothing else to do with the residents or the tenants.
5:08:44
Tenants are complaining, and they're
5:08:49
Bad actors yes.
5:08:50
Bad actors should not continue to to be, funded.
5:08:54
Thank you.
Justin Brannan
5:06:42
Yes.
5:06:43
Go ahead.
Gale A. Brewer
5:08:46
being Thank you for your testimony.
5:08:48
The timer has expired.