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Commissioner Bozorg asks Cliff Hagen about housing development appropriate for Staten Island
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Commissioner Leila Bozorg asks Cliff Hagen for his perspective on appropriate housing policies and development types for Staten Island in the context of the city's housing crisis.
Hagen suggests the City of Yes plan directs development along the existing transit corridor but emphasizes that Staten Island has faced significant development over the past decades and believes the borough has already contributed substantially to housing growth, implying resistance to further large-scale development.
Leila Bozorg
1:47:22
Hello.
1:47:23
Thank you for your testimony, all of you.
1:47:26
My question, Frank, around ULURP.
1:47:28
Well, ULURP aside, I'm just given your involvement in the community and in, Staten Island and given our housing crisis.
1:47:37
I'm curious kind of what types of policies, what types of programs, you think the city should be employing to help address the housing crisis and the affordable housing crisis and the types of housing that, you think is appropriate for Staten Island given that it is incumbent on all boroughs to be contributing to our affordable housing crisis?
Cliff Hagen
1:48:01
Sure.
1:48:01
And I think the city of yes addresses that.
1:48:03
Right?
1:48:04
We do have a transit line on Staten Island, and there will be further development along that transit line.
1:48:09
But the people of the South Shore Of Staten Island, in particular, in the Mid Island have been fighting over development for many, many years.
1:48:17
The the housing we do have in New York City is on the backs of the people of Staten Island.
1:48:22
If you've ever driven through Staten Island, if you know of the history of Staten Island, it was generally open space for many years.
1:48:28
And over the last thirty years, forty, fifty years, have been extraordinarily developments throughout the entire island.
1:48:36
I think we have done our part in every go ahead.