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Council Member Ossé's remarks on the Atlantic Avenue mixed use plan
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Council Member Chi A. Ossé delivers a speech in support of the Atlantic Avenue mixed use plan, highlighting its benefits for housing, community investment, and neighborhood improvements. He emphasizes the plan's potential to create new homes, provide income-restricted housing, and address displacement concerns.
- The plan will create 4,600 new homes, with 1,900 being income-restricted
- $215 million investment in safer streets, infrastructure, and parks
- Includes provisions for tenant and homeowner legal assistance and workforce development
Chi A. Ossé
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Today, we are voting on a plan that meets the urgency of the moment.
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The Atlantic Avenue mixed use plan aim up will unlock 4,600 new homes across Community Districts 3 And 8, and 1,900 of them will be income restricted.
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That's a large and necessary amount of new homes and more income restricted housing than this this area has produced in the entire last decades.
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Through aim up, 40% of units will be permanently income restricted and a % will be adding to New York's desperately low housing supply putting downward pressure on rents for everyone.
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Beyond beyond the necessary homes this plan unlocks, we have secured historic neighborhood investment, $215,000,000 for safer streets, enhanced infrastructure, and vibrant parks.
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This includes long needed improvements at St.
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Andrews, John Hancock, and Potomac Playgrounds.
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We are redesigning the stretch of Atlantic so kids can cross in safety, seniors can stroll without fear, and small businesses can flourish along a calmer, greener corridor.
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Additionally, after thirty long years, we are going to address the homeownership and ownership issues surrounding Hattie Jones Court and Jewel McCoy Lane.
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This is the first step to bringing key repairs and improvements to the streets.
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And because housing justice includes looking out for everyone, we locked in $1,200,000 for full time tenant and homeowner legal assistance right in our district offices.
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Plus citywide resources like Partners in Preservation and the anti harassment tenant program so no one can bully our neighbors out of their homes.
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Some will ask why build so much?
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My answer is simple.
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Displacement is not a force of nature.
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It is a policy choice.
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When we deprive our city of new homes, rents skyrocket and families are pushed out.
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When we say yes to new homes, to income restricted homes, to making room for everyone so no one is priced out, we choose community over scarcity and inclusion over exclusion.
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This plan also invests in a workforce development program so the jobs of tomorrow go to the people who live here today.
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It even begins the long awaited revival of the Bedford Atlantic Armory.
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With AIM UP, we prove that Brooklyn's future can be abundant, equitable, prosperous, alive, and ours.
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I thank our council's land use team for shepherding us through endless negotiations and reviews, the Department of City Planning, and other agencies for taking our community's feedback seriously, and to our neighbors who helped us shape this plan and emphasize the need for real affordable housing in the Thank you thank you council member Hudson, my amazing staff, May Vuchampong Bhatana, Elijah Fox,
Amanda Farías
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are your time member Gillion as
Chi A. Ossé
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well as the speaker.
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Thank you very much.