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Commissioners Weisbrod and Greenberger on guiding principles and impact analysis for recommendations
0:52:23
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Commissioner Carl Weisbrod outlines three key pillars that should guide the commission's recommendations: reducing housing costs, promoting equity and fair share in housing distribution, and balancing local and citywide interests.
Commissioner Sharon Greenberger adds that demonstrating the potential impact of these recommendations, perhaps through projections or visual aids, would be a powerful way to communicate their benefits.
This discussion focuses on the foundational goals and effective presentation of the commission's final proposals.
- Weisbrod emphasizes a multi-faceted approach focusing on cost, equity, and balanced governance.
- Greenberger advocates for including an "impact analysis" to illustrate the tangible positive outcomes expected from the proposed charter changes over time.
- The aim is to ensure recommendations are not only sound but also clearly understood in terms of their benefits to New Yorkers.
Carl Weisbrod
0:52:23
I think we're trying to address all of these have been touched on, but three goals and make them consistent and mutually supportive.
0:52:34
One is reducing costs and the role that reducing costs either through time or supply or both play in increasing the the availability of housing, which we all recognize is critical.
0:52:54
Two, the issue of equity, which is we know that neighborhoods have, as Alex and the staff have pointed out, we have a very segregated city, and we have an obligation to address that, I think, and do it in a way where every neighborhood and community does, accept its and embrace its fair share of of housing growth generally.
0:53:26
That's been the goal of the city council, and that's our goal as well.
0:53:31
And the third, how do we best balance the local interest with the interest of the city as a whole?
0:53:38
And I think that those are the three pillars on which Mhmm.
0:53:45
Our recommendations should be based.
0:53:47
And I really commend the staff to for coming up with recommendations that address all of those.
Sharon Greenberger
0:53:53
Can I make a friendly amendment, which is around the impact of those?
0:53:57
And it's it's it goes to all the points around the impact analysis, which is not where you can understand what the cause and effect might be.
0:54:06
So that one chart, for example, then had the I apologize for my voice.
0:54:10
The one chart that had the three sized circles that showed you sort of what housing was done to understand what might change over the next five to ten years with with the provisions that we're talking about, I think, would be very powerful because it's these three things plus then what's the impact of those changes.
Alec Schierenbeck
0:54:26
We'll try to do our best.
0:54:28
There's a kind of there's a crystal ball problem here.
0:54:32
Yeah.
0:54:32
And and we anything we put out, we want to believe is is shedding more light than smoke.