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ms. hudson: thank you all for takingthe time to attend. everyone is busy. and you made this a priority. we appreciatethat. so many of you are here tonightexpressing an interest in new york city housing authority in accordance with section 5a of the united states housing act of 1937,as amended. housing authorities are
Greater New Bedford Community Health Center, required to develop with review and inputfrom residents and the general public, an annual plan that outlines its priorities forthe upcoming year. federal law allows a public housingauthority to modify or amend its annual pha plan. significant amendments to the planare subject to the same requirements as the
original plan.on february 19, 2016, new york city housing authority published a significantamendment to the fiscal year 2016 annual plan. the amendment includes thedisposition of parcels of land at holmes towers in manhattan and wyckoff gardens inbrooklyn, for the development of new housing, as part of the nextgenneighborhoods program. new york city housing authority hasalso released its fiscal year 2016 capital plan and five year action plan for publicreview and comment. the review period, which began on february 19, 2016, encouragesour residents and advocates to provide written comments on the significantamendment to the fiscal year 2016 annual
plan and the fiscal year 2016 capital plan,until april 8, 2016. these comments will be taken through fax and e-mail, through themail, and collected at this public hearing. the significant amendment was madeavailable on february 19th for public inspection at new york city housingauthority's principle office at 250 broadway, on new york city housingauthority's website, at each local property management office, and at all communityoperations, management and lease housing borough offices, and at five designatedcommunity centers. the amendment and capital plan werealso sent to all the resident advisory board members, delegates and alternates, and toeach resident association president.
the purpose of this public hearing isto obtain the views, comments and recommendations of the public on thesignificant amendment to the fiscal year 2016 annual plan and the fiscal year 2016capital plan. the amendment and the capital plan are not final and will be modifiedbefore they are submitted to hud. please understand, however, that thisevening is not intended as a form for verbal exchange. new york city housing authorityrepresentatives will not engage in discussions with the speakers, nor will theyrespond to questions. they are present to hear what you have to say about thesignificant amendment and the capital plan. this public hearing is being livestreamed over the internet and will be
available to view on new york city housingauthority's website. joining us tonight we have the new york city housing authorityboard, chair and chief executive officer shola olatoye. michael kelly, generalmanager. victor a. gonzalez, member. beatrice byrd, member. willie may lewis,member. and zaire dinzey-flores, member. before we will begin, i would like tointroduce new york city housing authority's chair and chief executive officer sholaolatoye, who will share with us a brief update of the next generation nychainitiatives. ms. olatoye: thank you, janelle.good evening. wonderful to see you all here. i want to thank again my partners andall things nycha, my general manager and my
fellow commissioners. i want to thank youfor your partnership and commitment to the more than 400,000 residents.i also want to beg your forgiveness with my voice. i just got it back. if itis a little raspy, it has been out of use for a couple days.so welcome to our public hearing on our significant annual plan and significantamendment. and i thought just before we begininto what is really the focus of this evening, which is to hear from all of you,we take a few minutes to talk about specific parts of our next generation nycha plan,which we have shared in this setting last may. and something that we have beenworking very hard on with many of you in
implementation.so the vision of our plan is very simple. and it really reflects the twocharges that the mayor gave me when he appointed me, which was to resetrelationships and engage with residents in anew and different way. and to create a plan to preserve what is truly the city's truestaffordable housing. over the course of a year and a half,we have developed this plan that is really focused on making the vision a reality,which is everyone deserves to live in a safe, clean, connected community. how do wedo that? how we do that in the face of potentially staggering financial realitiesand difficult physical conditions, is our
challenge. but hopefully with your help andsupport we can get there. what will next generation nycha accomplish? it is very simple. first, weare trying to set us on a financial path so that we can address the real conditions inthe homes of all of you. it means eliminating our annual recurring deficit andactually getting to a place of financial sustainability so that we can stabilize ouroperations and deliver on better customer service.attract new kinds of resources. this is an acknowledgment that the traditionalsource of funding to federal public housing has drastically changed. and we have toacknowledge the difference, address this
more than $17 billion of capital repairs orrepair needs that exist in all of our buildings. and most importantly, and thereason why we do all this, is improving the quality of life for our residents.the plan is really based on four key pillars: changing the way we are funded;fundamentally changing the way we do business; helping to rebuild and leverageparts of our portfolio or our buildings; and engaging with residents in a new way andconnecting folks to community. there are fifteen very specificstrategies. this not a kitchen sink plan. these are very specific strategies that weredesigned to put us on a healthy financial path so that we can deal with the capitalrepair needs in our buildings.
i thought we would take theopportunity to talk about two components of that plan this evening, which have gaineda lot of public attention and are worth somefurther discussion. one is we start from a place of how do we deliver better servicesto you -- to our residents? one of the initiatives that we havetalked about and recently launched, beginning to talk about, is flex operations,which is about extending hours at our bases. basic property management. making sure whenyou leave your homes, your floors are cleaned; there are doors locked and lightson. it is very simple. it is the same kind of services that most new yorkers have the
expectations of. and we believe that nycharesidents should be no different. so we will move from our traditionalsingle schedule to a staggered set of shifts, monday through friday, so that thereis coverage from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at our developments. and on saturdays you willactually get to talk to a human being in your management office from eight to twelve,by appointment only. for those of you who have lived in thehousing authority for many years, some of you will say that we used to have this manyyears ago where you could go down and talk to the manager or the housing assistant andinquire about certain issues. there was truth and good in that. and this is againabout trying to deliver better services to
you, our residents.i think it is important that we set the record straight about what flexops is.it is about improving customer service and setting our employees up for success. andwhat we have engaged in over the course of the last eight and a half months is ourcolleague from local 237 has really been about identifying issues that might be ofconcern. and so we worked very closely with them around safety assessments at the twelvesites where we will begin this initiative about really developing and making sure thatall employees have access to basic supplies. things like reflective gear and flashlightsand two-way radios. making sure that things that should have been fixed anyway arefixed; doors lock, reflective two-way
mirrors, making sure that our propertymanagement offices are equipped with security enhancements, buzzer doors,mirrors, et cetera, things that will ensure the safety of our residents and ouremployees, a third of whom are residents themselves.really important to note that we are not asking people to work more. people'sjobs haven't changed. it is simply really distributing our work force over the courseof a longer period of the day so that we can ensure better customer service to all ofyou. another part of our strategy has been, again, i think we have talked about a lotin the subject of this evening's discussion,next generation neighborhoods. i think it
is really important that this administrationhas made some commitments that remain true in this plan.we are part of the mayor's affordable housing plan to create or preserve200,000 units around the city of new york. 10,000 of those units will be built in andaround nycha, 100 percent affordable housing. this is an acknowledgment that thecity has an affordable housing crisis. and we are part of that solution.another one of our strategies is to build affordable housing where there has notbeen affordable housing being built in the city. we have seen a huge increase ingentrification, et cetera. how do we also make sure that affordable housing continuesto be built there? and how do we raise
additional revenue to support the capital needs or repair needs of our developments?it is important to note that these are one of the fifteen strategies -- not theonly -- but one of the fifteen strategies that we have laid out in next generationnycha. that we remain committed to the affordability of half of those units beingat 60 percent ami. that means for a family of three, a maximum of $46,000.one of the things i have heard a lot about is you are not building that housingfor nycha residents. no. we are building that housing so we can generate some revenuefor nycha residents. we want to preserve public housing for today and for the future.so we use this as a tool to help us ensure
the end, which is the preservation of publichousing in new york city. baked into our plan has been engagingwith residents in a new and different way. i am pleased to say that we will, tomorrow,announce the creation of stakeholder committees. there are two developmentswhere we have begun some of this work, at wyckoff and holmes.and the conversations that have happened over the course of the last severalmonths have really focused on how the resident voice remains at the forefront inany decisions around what happens at those developments. and that stakeholdercommittee will be open for residents at those developments to participate and forthere to be a continued resident voice in
those discussions.really important to note what nextgen neighborhoods is not. it is not aboutdisplacing nycha families. it is not about raising your rent. it is not aboutprivatized buildings. it is not about demolishing public housing. we really wantthat to sink in. these are the commitments that the mayor has made and that we havemade as a result. so important for the future of thecity in terms of providing affordability housing. but also to create additionalrevenue to support the significant repair needs in your homes. and just one of thetools that we have in our tool box, to preserve public housing.another part of next generation nycha
has been about connecting residents toopportunity. last week more than 70 resident leaders were part of a section 3stewardship conference where there were workshops led by hud edc and werecosponsored with edc and svs. really talking about, how do we better connectfolks looking for work opportunities? not only within nycha, but within the broadernew york city. and i think this is another example ofus really pealing back the layers and providing as much information as we can andalso connecting residents to opportunity. one of the important components and valuesof this administration has been around transparency. because not only in theprovision of information, but being clear
about the commitments that we make and ourprogress towards those commitments. so we released a report that isavailable online in english and spanish and other languages, for an update on where weare on the specific strategies as outlined in nextgen. and i would encourage folks whoare interested in that to take a look. i know there are tables in the back or upfront with a lot of information. i would encourage folks to take that.as well as if you are a resident, i hope that you have downloaded the mynychaapp which allows you to schedule your work at your convenience. not take anappointment when it is simply assigned to you. also allowing you to track the workand track what is happening in your
development if there are outages, et cetera.again, it is another way of us trying to provide more information and give youinformation to help make informed decisions. so i want to thank you for yourattention. and welcome ms. hudson back up to the stage to begin the rest of ourprogram. thank you very much. ms. hudson: thank you chair olatoye.we hope that as many people as possible will have an opportunity to express theircomments. so before we begin the actual hearing,let's go over the following ground rules to make this evening go smoothly for us all:if you wish to speak, first you must fill out a speaker slip. they are available inthe entrance area at the table marked
speaker sign-in. please line up at each ofthe microphones in the aisles and wait your turn to speak. each speaker is allowedthree minutes to speak. on stage you will see a timer with three lights. when youbegin to speak the green light will be on and the timer will begin to count down.when the yellow light is lit, it means you should start to conclude your remarks. whenthe red light is turned on, your three minutes to provide comments are over.a table has been set up outside so that written comments may also be submitted.numbered speaker slips are nontransferable and if you are not present or do not wishto speak when your name and number is called,you will forfeit the opportunity to speak.
the hearing is being recorded andtranscribed by a stenographer. so please speak only from the microphones in theaisles. and identify yourself, your development or affiliation.remember, we are here to comment on the significant amendment and the capitalplan. any personal comments on criticisms or oral attacks on nycha personnel, residentrepresentatives and public attendees or any demeaning, discriminating or ethnic slursor vulgar language will not be tolerated.as moderator of this evening's meeting i reserve the right to immediately move onto the next speaker in line if any comments are deemed inappropriate. the moderator onstage is in charge of the public hearing.
please be considerate of yourneighbors and follow my directions. we are here to consider issues that are of concernto everyone. not issues that concern only a single resident or individual. if you havean issue that concerns only you or your apartment, we have tables set up outsidespecifically for that purpose. please fill out a resident's response form at the tableoutside marked resident's complaints. the passing out of materials is notallowed in the auditorium. however, a general information station is availableoutside where leaflets and fliers may be displayed. resource tables have been set upoutside with information. so that at the end of the meeting you can pick upinformation that may be of interest to you.
we encourage you to learn more about ourcommunity programs and development including resident's services and economicopportunities. copies of the executive summary of thesignificant amendment are available in english, spanish, chinese and russian forreview purposes on the tables outside the auditorium.so let's begin. first speaker we have is mrs. nellie mckay from patterson.following ms. mckay, we have reverend jason taber.mr. taber: right here. ms. hudson: i think we need amicrophone for ms. mckay. ms. mckay: again, my name is nelliemckay. and i am from patterson projects in
the bronx. i support the next generation.but now we have to -- you have to think about us. we support the next generation.and we need a lot of help. we need $17 billion to overhaul all the projects.they need to be fixed up before they fall down. and a lot of roofs is caving in, inthe bronx and all over the bronx and manhattan. so i hope that we can worktogether and build a better place where we live. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you, ms. mckay. next we have reverend taber.mr. taber: i do come from a congregation near williamsburg housing innorth brooklyn. i represent about 150 congregants there, the majority of whomeither are nycha public housing residents
orhave family there. most of them could not be here because we are in manhattan in themiddle of the afternoon on a week day. i do want to speak on their behalf.to the point of the market, slash, affordable rate housing going into nychadevelopments, i hear what the chair is saying, is that it is a tool to an end. buti want to make very clear, speaking for my congregants, that is a frightening tool.because we have lived through the market rate, slash, affordable housing, thegentrification things, for a long time. the city has funded studies now that show whatthese people have known for years. that public housing residents in particular don'tbenefit from and don't connect with those
who come in through market rate affordablehousing. when it says half affordable, thequestion is always affordable for whom? many of my people, whom i care about, make way under that. 46,000 would be a dream formany of them. so the effect is that it makes neighborhoods where these people havelived for years or generations, less affordable for them.it is a tool to an end. i understand that. but i want to make it clear that itis a very frightening tool. i will leave it with this rhetorical question: if this isa necessary tool, what can be done to helppeople who have lived there and not feel
like their neighborhoods are being takenfrom them? ms. hudson: denise jennings houston.followed by a. m. goodridge. ms. houston: again, i am a product ofthe williamsburg houses in brooklyn, when itwas called the williamsburg projects, far back as 1960. my mother who will turn 84this july still resides in the third floor walkup where i was raised approximately 56years ago. i came there when i was about four. so i am sixty now. she has livedthere 56 years without an opportunity to acquire any home equity of any kind.so when we talk about affordable housing, what i want to say is, affordablehousing, especially in this day and age, has
to be the opportunity to build home equity,at minimum. and at best, a path to homeownership.because it is not affordable if you are paying rent and you are not being ableto hold on to some of that. so i think that this project here, that is nice, it isbeautiful. but what about people who have been living there 50, 60 years, and they arenot able to hold on to anything to move forward? so that is not fair. and i knowyou all want to be fair. so i would ask that you would take that into considerationwhen you are trying to improve things. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you, ms. houston. a.m. goodridge followed by julia foster.mr. goodridge: thank you again. so i
in a high crime neighborhood. so the onething that you mentioned about time and time again which is wyckoff is about you talkabout like market rate and affordable. that is not going to mix. but fortunately,50 percent affordable for extreme low income and 50 percent for retirement and theveterans. so that money, we have to put the demand on the table.and i went by this town hall meeting february about this supermarket to be shutdown. people from wyckoff gardens had access to healthy food. but what is goingto happen is the minute they shut down, maybe two or three years, there is no accessto healthy food. so they are going to try to travel to whole foods. it is veryexpensive. but that is not something that
is affordable. we should have access tohealthy food for people who live in wyckoff and of course warren street. so then mypart -- my point of view, to make sure that we have to be on the same page. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. julia foster. ms. foster: i'm also a product ofwilliamsburg houses. and president at cooper park houses, where i reside for over30 years. i was understanding the plan for next generation is not to raise rent or notto do other things. i have been there over 30 something years. and my rent just wentup about a thousand dollars because i increased by putting my son on my leasepermanently. our income is not that high. we don't make that kind of money. becausethere is two of us my rent is over a
thousand dollars. where i have never evenpaid basically 500. i understand that we are going to tryto build developments in holmes and wyckoff to offset that income. and they are calledaffordable. affordable for who? williamsburg, green point. it is coming toour neighborhood also. i don't know when. who are these homes affordable for? i knowthis is not a q and a. but that is a question i want to put out there.also, town hall meetings. you really make these town hall meetings impossible foranyone to get to. i have a lot of seniors where i am at. yes, they may haveaccess-a-ride. that doesn't mean that -- access-a-ride, they call it stress-a-ride,cause they never come up on time. they
never pick them up on time. and they can bestuck here in manhattan waiting two or three hours.your meetings i think need to be based in the developments that you provideservices for. to come out to cooper park. come to williamsburg houses. come tobushwick. come to -- who am i missing? come visit us. come give us a town hallmeeting for you to tell them, the residents, what your initial plan is. because we tryto explain it and it is really hard to explain.that is all i have to say. but thank you. and best of luck to the nextgeneration. ms. hudson: thank you. next we havecarolyn walton followed by joeann brown.
ms. walton: again, madame chairolatoye, mr. kelly, members of the dais. my name is carolyn walton. and i am theresident leader of glenwood houses and the district chair for brooklyn south.glenwood has been chosen as one of the first developments to participate in theflexop initiative. and i wanted you to know that i have had an opportunity to speak withmany of the departments at glenwood houses who are in favor of this and have expressedan opportunity to finally get to meet the nycha staff at glenwood and to have therepairs made at their apartments. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. joeann brown followed by juan acencio.ms. brown: good afternoon. i am the
vice president of warren street houses. iam also a part of fifth avenue committee. iam here on this. i am going to ask you, could you please help out warren streethouses? because we have a lot of mold. we have a lot of leaking that is in the roof.okay. and we have a lot of bedbugs, okay, in our development. i mean, like i know they came out,well, a year ago, a year and a half ago. but they really need to come in there andassess the apartments. make sure that everybody is okay. and also, too, i amasking you, if you put out the lighting that is in the front of the development, thelighting, you cannot see when you are
standing outside there. they are so dim.if somebody come up on you, you don't know who they are. we need some lighting that isout there and right there in front of the developments.all right. it is also, too, i understand about the next generation ofnycha. but it all sound and look, if you gonna get all these developments, you gota lot of developments that are coming up, andonly say about big business trying to buy upthe development. can you ask them to try to fix up their developments that is alreadythere first? before they start building on the land or whatever. you understand?we got so many people that they have
broken things. i am talking like cabinetsor refrigerators that need to be done. fix up that place first. and then you build onthat land or whatever you want to do with this next generation of nycha. and askthose business people to be putting money back into the development that they aretrying to do. you are taking away the supermarket,our laundromats, what have you. i am going to suggest, if you want to do all that,please put the laundromats back into the development. get them a key card so theycan put money on that card so they can be able to go to the laundromat so nobody beatthem up or hurt them, thinking they got money.and also, they put like a big giant
supermarket, i mean like a key foods.remember, those are low income people that have like our social security, publicassistance. we can't go to those stores, them whole food stores. i ain' t gonna lie,i went to the store. i got $37 and only a little bit of food. and i am saying tomyself, good god almighty, i don't have that kind of money to go to them big old stores.i am asking you to help us. we are not rich people. but we just want you allto look at the little people. we are the little people. can you just help us please?i appreciate that. ms. hudson: thank you, ms. brown.next juan acencio. interpreter: (speaks in spanish).resident: english.
mr. acencio/interpreter: i am sosorry. okay. my name is juan acencio. and i am representing a group of residents atocean bay. and we want to bring up an issue that all of us are afraid of at ocean bay.he says that they have been having a lot of meetings. and they want to implement thisprogram. but a lot of us are against it. he says that they doing this in adictatorship type of a way. that a lot of us have approved transfers and they are notmoving anywhere. i say that it is done in adictatorship type of way because every time we ask a question we never get a straightanswer. he also wants to get an answer from nycha cause we don't want to lose theprotection from nycha.
and we also, i want to also bring toyou the attention that is the problem with mosquitos in the area. we don't want you toconvince us with pretty words. we want action. we want things, you know, becausenobody invest in something unless they are getting something back.ms. hudson: thank you, mr. acencio. next we have robert zagler followed by jacobsher. mr. zagler: good evening, everyone.i want to point attention to you that the timing is wrong cause people cannot comehere on time. and your meeting is a little bit off.second, people were scared today to come over and show their faces because theyare afraid of retaliation with management
in your developments. if they complain, theyretaliate, they don't fix their apartments. so you have ten years of repairs thathaven't been done because they are afraid tocomplain. most of my people in my development don't want to even show up.what you are doing is putting lipstick on the pig. basically, you are proposing,you know, all these fancy things that you are going to do for us. and nothing is everdone. and at the meeting, at the board meeting, i didn't have time to say muchbecause it was -- three minutes is not much time.but at any rate, you have to take into consideration that this is not your money.this is sort of public money. so you are
losing money right and left. and you awardcontracts to the contractors who don't do the job right. and everything is absolutelya mess. you know, i live next to thedevelopment, they have housing built in the 1850's. and they are getting better because the prices go up so high. so it is goodreason to fix it up. and my old amsterdam, there are houses that are 600 years old,they are still standing. except they are maintained properly. and your management isnot doing what they are supposed to be doing.so i have a wooden crane -- picture of a wooden crane, which is 800 years old,still standing there. wood structure. it's
800 years old. so what you are talkingabout, 50 years ago they build the housing for nycha. and now it is all falling apart.what the hell. who is not maintaining it? where are the managers? they are just doingit deliberately to retaliate against tenants. and, you know, these people arenot showing up because they are afraid. you know, i can go build an igloo innorth pole. but families with children can't do that. so, you know, i am notworried if anybody retaliates against me. cause i can get even. so i did it with irs.and i did it with the federal government. have been homeless three times. and theyregret every minute that they step on my toes. that's it. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. jacob sher
followed by hally chu.mr. sher: good evening. my name is jacob sher. i'm here to give testimony onbehalf of assembly member linda roosevelt, who is in albany, of course.i am assembly member linda roosevelt. i represent the 67th assembly district,which includes the upper west side and parts of hells kitchen. i proudly represent thethousands of residents at amsterdam houses and --- and park view terrace. i appreciatethe opportunity to present testimony on proposed amendments in the nycha annual planfor the fiscal year 2016. for years, budget shortfalls coupledwith chronic outrage and -- has subjected nycha residents to unacceptable livingconditions, with a backlog of repairs
scanning for years. compounding theinfrastructure issues, nycha has long resisted efforts to make its processes anddecisions more transparent. sadly, the amendment proposed today bynycha continues the long tradition of opaque decision making by the authority. it issimply astounding that even a federal investigation has not convinced nycha thatit should be more transparent. in nycha next generationneighborhoods, the authority has gone to great lengths to give the appearance oftransparency by holding the community engagement meetings. however, manyresidents have complained that the inclusivity is illusionary, because nobodyknows how nycha considers the resident
input. and it certainly doesn't appear thatresident feedback is incorporated in any meaningful way in new york city housingauthority's final plans. nycha must do better. to begin with,nycha should provide residents with hard copies of all presentation materials; shouldmaintain a written record of agreements between nycha's residents; and should beclear to nycha residents that they are not merely expressing their concerns but thattheir concerns are reflected in their final plan. memorializing those agreements inmemorandum would be a start. putting aside the overarching concernsthat i, along with many of my colleagues have in general, about increasingprivatization of public housing. i am
troubled that nycha is seeking yet again todiminish public input in properties that will have substantial impact on theresidents. attempting to argue that a change in the form of rental assistance isnot a significant amendment to the plan that would require public process, deprivesresidents in the vital role they should play in determining their own future.shifting between privatized rental assistance and privatized voucher assistancewill have significant consequences for tenants in terms of their rights, controlover the waiting list and even mobility provisions. changes to the rentalassistance program will have tangible impact on current and perspective residents. andit is crucial that they be provided with an
opportunity for meaningful input. it isvital that nycha residents play a consequential role in shaping and buildingtheir community. nycha must do better to not merelycreate the appearance of transparent interprocess and community engagement. itmust actually create an environment where resident feedback is fostered anddeterminative. new york city housing authority's very success depends on it.thank you. ms. hudson: thank you. hally chu.followed by vivian iturralde. ms. chu: hi again. i'm here onbehalf of the manhattan borough president's office. thank you to the chair and membersof the board for the opportunity to testify.
i am just going to give a brief summary ofthe written testimony which the borough president has submitted. and i have copiesif you need. regarding the next generation plans,the in-fill being incorporated into the significant amendment, the borough presidenthas always cautioned against offering anything that is less than 100 percentaffordable for the neighborhood. one of the concerns that she has -- onmarch 28th, nycha testified before the city council committee of public housing. theleasing commercial space was less than what it has anticipated, downward from $6 millionto between 4.2 million. this is a reduction of 30 to 40 percent.so if commercial revenue requires such
a drastic readjustment, then what guaranteeis there that residential units will not also see price adjustment at the market ratelevel? and if this, what would it mean to have a -- foregoing the opportunity toprovide more affordable housing on the site, if it doesn't materialize the rentalassistance that it anticipates. regardless of the type of housing, theborough president is a strong advocate for stronger training programs and reese.particularly to offer employment for construction jobs that are available,regardless of someone's criminal record, especially.and in light of julian castro (phonetic), a memo released yesterday aboutthe individuals with criminal background for
housing, borough presidents calling for anynew developments as a result nycha's next general neighborhoods, to also make sure allthe rfp winners are selected and will comply with that.and additionally for the rab significant amendment borough president'sidea of taking that out of requirement for what is effectively a public commentingprocess. especially for the pdra option. it is effectively changing the natureof ownership, from what is solely owned by nycha into a public private partnership. inthis joint ownership structure a lot can happen depending on different contracts.and it might have long term implications at the affordability of it.at the minimum, nycha residents,
community stake holders, and the generalpublic should have the opportunity to invite input during the 45 day review period andat least one public hearing. nycha should nottake this out of a significant amendment so that it can bypass that, regardless of whatit might mean in terms of kind of a heavier burden in anticipating 15,000 units beingtransferred into project based voucher or rental assistance program.ms. hudson: thank you, ms. chu. that concludes your remarks. we will accept yourtestimony. ms. iturralde: hello. i am vivianiturralde. i live in wyckoff gardens in brooklyn. i am here to say that i supportthe next generation plan for my development.
i know this plan is controversial. i do notthink there is any other way we will be able to repair our own buildings. we have been living for too long with broken doors andold appliances and leaking roofs. i want to thank nycha for thinking ofa way that they can fix our buildings. because i don't know if there would be -- ifthey would ever be fixed otherwise. i would be happy to have a clean, safe apartmentwith a nice new lobby with doors that lock. and beautiful grounds to walk through on ournew cement. thank you. ms. hudson: thank you, ms. iturralde.victor bach. followed by lisa kenner. mr. bach: vick bach, communityservice society. we want to comment on two
areas. one is on resident engagement andimprovements that need to be made. while nycha has been very diligent about engagingresidents, the engagement is largely an oral tradition. residents leave presentationswithout anything written in hand to review once they get home. those who have notattended meetings don't have the material. there is no written record kept ofagreements between the residents and nycha before the rfp is issued, so that everyoneis on the same footing before developers are sought for the process.so i think -- i think a good deal needs to be done to make accountableinformation available to all residents in effective developments, and keeping therecord of where residents and the authority
are in agreement about the future of thecommunity. second, i agree with previoustestifiers about excluding the rab changes from significant amendments. under currentplans, as i understand it, nycha plans to use project based vouchers in all rab typeconversions like ocean bay. that means nycha maintains control ofthe waiting list. that means the waiting list used is the section 8 voucher waitinglist. if that is shifted, for instance, to project based rent assistance -- i am goingto get technical -- the owner of the development has largely control over thewaiting list. the waiting list will no longer be targeted as the section 8 waitinglist is, where it is required that the
majority of the vouchers be provided to thelowest income households on the waiting list. so these are substantial changes.and they shouldn't be removed from being considered significant amendments and beingheard like everything else. on top of that, i am pleased to saythat with new york city housing authority's encouragement, the css, along withenterprise community partners, have formed astakeholder round table that includes residents, advocates, nycha participants,to develop a set of guideline principles forresident's protections and rights under rab conversion.your conclusion of that round table
are not yet available. i suggest deferringthat part of the plan proposed tonight until at least that comes out. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. lisa kenner then william smith.ms. kenner: again, my name is lisa kenner. i am the president of van dykehouses. and the reason i got up here, because i see wyckoff and holmes is -- theyhave been going into next generation. van dyke is in the next generation. half isgood. half is bad. the good part about it is that we have jaqueline howard to try tohelp the residents to take over, to do for themselves, instead of depending on somebodyelse. i came here with an open mind. wehave a part of public housing being built
now. i felt that -- and the residents feltwe have a place to live. why not somebody else have a decent place to live? now theysnuck this other one in. i am waiting for the rfp to come out. but i will still keepan open mind. you know, you all have the money. andpeople deserve a safe, clean, connected community. you can't have that if you don'thave no money. you see, a lot of elected officials not here. but we are here.but what i want to say, the way you can have a safe, clean, connected community,and you have the next generation, you have to put the right people to manage thebuilding. that is it. now i'm not going to go into details.but i have been saying it so long. but i
know one thing, if we have the right peoplein van dyke doing what they are supposed to be doing, then we have -- we will betogether instead of being divided. we can't divide the people. see, it is divide andconquer. we can't have willie and wilma lynch at van dyke. i don't know if a lot ofpeople know who they are. if we have that, the place is going to keep being divided.now here is the new building gonna come. and i was talking to somebody today,we don't need a war to say this is van dyke. or the new development, you think you areso high. that is why we have to fix up what wehave now. so when the people come in and the people -- we don't have a war. weshouldn't have a war. but what i want to
say, first, you have to clean house so we can be able to live. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. william smith followed by mary mcgee.mr. smith: first of all, i want to thank everyone for coming out, consideringthe weather. and often we have a lot of times we don't attend the meetings becauseof the elements. it is good to see everyone here. i want to mention the fact that atthe last nycha hearing, i mentioned that nycha did not detail what would happen ifa rab converted property were to fall intoforeclosure or encounter financial issues. that has been acknowledged, it is a validpoint. but there has been no guidance
provided on that issue. so it would be veryhelpful if we could educate the people on what would happen if a property were to fallinto foreclosure. because it is really important, especially seeing that thefederal government is expanding the statutory cap for rab.aside from that, there are also other issues. we have times where we have claimed that we have strengthened our inclusion andengagement, and we have in certain instances. but we are not quite detailingthe progress, or lack thereof, to the people. so a lot of times -- theircommunity meetings, i have never seen minutes distributed detailing some of thepoints that were -- that are discussed at
these meetings. i think that is veryimportant in terms of maintaining momentum. so we want to make sure we do that.moving forward, with the nextgen neighborhoods, we are building on propertiesthat are communities where a lot of our youth do not have the opportunities to playbasketball and engage in extracurricular activities. i think if we are going tocontinue to build on nycha land, they should be mixed use properties. where financiallyfeasible, they should be mixed use. we have, for example, one in eastharlem, the johnson center. they have a big community center. i don't see how itwouldn't be possible to build the community center and have a -- you know -- affordablehousing units in the same property. that
was accomplished for the harlem property inwashington houses. we should be able to do that.we need more community centers in our nycha developments. if we don't do that,then we won't have safer neighborhoods. because our children won't have the skillsand the opportunities that a young man like myself had.ms. hudson: thank you, mr. smith. mr. smith: i am not done. i'm notdone. also, what we also need to do is revup our lobbying efforts in washington and include the residents. a lot of times theannual plan says that the cap -- the operating subsidy is prorated. that is acongressional issue. i understand the
political realities. but we need nycha todetail your lobbying efforts in washington; how consistently you are lobbying and whatare the results of those lobbying efforts? if it is not working, then it is time forthe residents to be a part of that effort. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. mary mcgee followed by joyce bryant.ms. mcgee: good evening. my name is mary mcgee. i live at fulton houses. iread a lot of the stuff you post on facebook, on the nycha web page. and thisinformation is not coming out to the residents. just like this meeting here,there is only a posting on top of the mailboxes. you wonder why you have morestaff than residents? it is because you are
not communicating with us. we need morecommunication. we need to know what is going on.i feel now i know less what is going on in nycha than before. you are sayingthat you are making improvements and quality of life issues. but yet you have to lookwithin nycha. you have so many residents living in overcrowded apartments. there areapartments that become available. but instead of giving it to a resident, you arebringing in someone new. before you bring anybody new -- youneed to take care of your own before you bring somebody in from the outside. i seeso many residents: residents with disabilities not living in the right sizeapartment or the right type of apartment;
isee families that have four household members living in a one bedroom apartment.and nycha is not doing anything. and it just goes on and on and on. you aredownsizing people but you are not putting the people in the apartments that need tobe there that live in nycha. you are givingthem to the outside. you are saying that, you know, nycha,the deficit, every year is going up. it is going up. what was the purpose ofincorporating nycha? because i don't see nycha as a corporation. i see it more aspublic housing where you are getting public funds. since you incorporated nycha, howmuch funding have you brought in? do you
know? that is -- these are things that arenot being said. so many changes are happening, but yetresidents aren't invited to sit in and listen to what is going on or comment. theother thing is i notice that i used to go to250 broadway meetings. but now on the agenda the majority of the time it statescity wide. not one development where i could speak on something. so i am justsitting there listening to you already deciding on decisions you already made upyour minds on. i think nycha -- you are saying youare transparent. you need to open up and let us actually see what you are doing. youhave elevators that are not working. you
have -- i have three elevators in mybuilding. half the time they are breaking down. you wait for somebody to get hurt orsomeone to die to then make improvements. you have apartments that are fallingapart. and you are not fixing them. so what is new york city housing authority's plan? not for your new developments thatare going to go up, but the old developments that you have residents who are paying toprent. they are not getting the services or the quality of life that they deserve.my next issue is with the nypd. i live in fulton houses. the 10th precinct isright there. you have psa 4 that is on the lower east side. if i call 911 it takes twohours to come because the precinct doesn't
want to send a cop because it is housing.i am not beneath anybody. if i call 911 somebody should respond. and nychaneeds to start getting that out there. because we are residents. we are new yorkcity residents. and we should be treated with the same type of respect that somebodythat lives in private developments. ms. hudson: thank you, ms. mcgee.joyce bryant followed by joshua barnett.ms. bryant: joyce bryant of farragut houses. my concern mainly is about thesafety where i live at. we live in the building with doors that are open, where themailbox are all broken up. and most of all, just last friday, there was gunshots in thebroad daylight, 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
i am a legally blind lady. i feelthat this should be better than what it is. if you say you want to do this, you say youare going to do that, but nothing is being done. i would like to know, why do we haveto talk? why can't you do what you say you are going to do? please give us more bettersafety and more better apartments. cause this is not fair for the residents. if weget killed, you are going to say you are sorry. sorry don't do these things. yousit up on these tables. you give suggestions. but you don't do what you sayyou are going to do. i would like to see a big change in this. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. joshua barnett then bernadette mcnear.mr. barnett: my name is joshua
barnett. i work in the office of design andcapital projects division, local 357 d.c. 37. and once, again looking at the capitalplan, what really is striking is not what itsays but really what it doesn't say. we know that nycha is broke. we knowabout the $18 million backlog in capital repairs. but the capital plan doesn't breakdown how much money is going to outside consultants to hire contractors that costmore than it takes the employee -- to pay the actual inhouse employees. it doesn'tbreak down how many managers have been hired. it doesn't seem to say how flex-opsis going to work if you don't hire more staff. it is not a question of switchinghours of the field staff.
when i started the housing authority1999, we had 15,000 employees. we are down to under 11,000 now. we need more staff.we need to hire more residents to do the work. it is not going to happen if money isgoing to outside consultants. it is going to hire more management. there are sixlayers of management between me and mike rosen, the head of capital projects. that means we have a very top heavy organization.and we don't have people on the ground actually doing the work. and people arestretched even further. it is going to effect the safety bothof the staff and of the residents. this could be a golden opportunity to hire moreresidents to increase the staffing levels.
instead it is being used to divide andconquer between the staff and the residents. and it really doesn't need to be that way.we know that there is a national problem with gentrification. we know howfrustrating it is. we need to advocate to the national level. it is so frustrating tohave to go to privatization when the taxes on the rich are so low; when the war budgetis so high. it is so frustrating knowing that madison square gardens pays no taxeswhile we are starving to raise money for the workers and for the residents. we need toadvocate much stronger for much more funding. and to make sure that the rich andthe military pay their fair share. but it is also frustrating to seenycha make the worst of a bad situation by
taking the little money we do have andspending it on consultants. all the hurricane sandy work is being outsourced tocorporations instead of bringing it inhouse. and the same thing that happens withresident engagement and formal discussions that don't lead to anything substantive.discussions can't just be us begging. it has to be real. you are missing what wesay. and the whole poison pill of privatization with the in-fill housing, weknow that privatization down the road means you spending more money for less services.it is very scary to see us going that way. if it is going to work at all, it hasto be with the people who live there having an actual say about what is going to effectthe quality of their life and their
neighborhoods. and not only what we say,but a role with how this works. so we can't keep having to fight for this transparency.we need a collective effort. we don't see it happening enough now. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you, mr. barnett. bernadette mcnear followed by richard lee.ms. mcnear: good afternoon. my name is bernadette mcnear. i represent rangelhouses in upper manhattan. i want to say i like the flex-ops. but i would like alittle clarity. if you already working on skeletonstaff, if there is only two maintenance workers, one of is going to work the day andone is going to work the extended hours, then therefore you are going to have a lotof things undone.
there is a lot of things for thegroundkeepers to maintain my building as it is. and you are going to split that staffin half. so i will look at a lot of things undone. but we do like the idea. it isjust -- i think it needs to be broadened just a little to have the hours covered allthe time. not just morning and then skip some time and then in the evening.my second thought is about we are, well, nycha is painting rooms a hundredtimes over. and you still get the complaint that there is water leaking into theapartments. i suggest that nycha stop repairing the roofs and come into theapartments and replace the water lines in the walls. because that is where theproblems are. you are fixing the roof. but
your tenants are still calling you saying i still have water. you repaired it. youplastered. it is still breaking. still you have to come in and plaster again becauseof the leaks here. what we hear, what we say,we live in the apartments. the water is in the walls. you can hear it running in thewalls. it is not on the roof. let's come together. hear the tenants. the water isin the walls. it is coming down. let's not plaster it again. let's fix it. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. richard lee and then daniel ramirez.mr. lee: hi. my name is richard. i am the quintessential resident of publichousing. i just wanted to say like when we
spoke a year ago, i asked the board whatthey were doing about like the increase of operating cost and all the fringe benefitsthat were going up. and i have been reading the news recently that you have tried to dosomething about it. but it is not actually happening, right? i see the smile. i seethe smile on your face. so i just put something togetherreally quickly for you guys. i am just, it is a sweat equity program. i am hoping wecan collaborate. that is it. ms. hudson: thank you. we willaccept. mr. ramirez: mr. ramirez from fultonhouses. next we have aaron humphrey. jerry: testing one, two, three, okay.my name is jerry. the question i have or my
concern, shall i say, is not only shouldtenants and our leaders, slash, presidents be included in the full next generationprocess, which includes rp, pick of the contractors and others and follow up withhard copies of the affirmation. but these copies should be posted up on the communityboard website so that outside neighbors could be informed of these changes as well.and help with their expertise with the help of nycha and nycha residents solve theirproblem. transparency brings people together and also holds people accountable.thank you. ms. hudson: thank you. hope distantthen debrella nesbitt. ms. distant: i have a lot to say.how much time do i got?
resident: three minutes.ms. hudson: ms. distant, we are going to -- i'm sorry. mr. ramirez, you need atranslator? can i pause you for one second? and mr. ramirez needed a translator.mr. ramirez is going to go. ms. distant, you will still get your three minutes.mr. ramirez/interpreter: good evening. my name is daniel ramirez. i livein fulton housing. i have been waiting 16 years for a transfer. i have a son whois mentally disabled as a five year old, but he is eighteen years old. and i only haveone bedroom in my apartment. and every time i go to the office theyalways promise. it has been about 15 years that we didn't have a shower. and now forthe last year we finally have an appropriate
kind of bathtub shower.how is it possible that with the city -- in the biggest city in the world, and myson being an american, that why does he have to sleep in the living room because hedoesn't have his own bedroom? and every day this particular week, ihad to -- my son had to stay at the hospital because he feels like he is in a cagebecause we don't have enough room to be living in that apartment.i can't survive on promises. and this country seems like it is all based onpromises. you understand? so then if i have to live this way as if i were now -- iam just asking for some help. because -- or come to my neighborhood so you can see whatis going on. because i just hear that you
guys are going to come. they are going tosend some people. and when they come they don't even hear us out.the only thing that they do is either put a supervisor, and they say everythingis going fine, everything is getting done. andwe have windows that need to be repaired. or the walls that need repair. they are notgetting done. well, i hope that you would help me atvery least for my son. we are four people in the home with only one bedroom. and thenthere is also a disability to take into account. i am disabled. and then myyoungest also has a problem. how am i to live this way? or is it that you can justsit there and be heartless to someone else's
situation? okay. thank you.ms. hudson: can we have someone speak to mr. ramirez in the back, please? willsomeone meet mr. ramirez from nycha operations? thank you. ms. distant.ms. distant: thank you everyone in this great city of new york. and i do thank god for this day and this opportunity tospeak my concerns. i am a resident of nycha. i happen tolive in the pomonok facility in flushing queens, new york. now i would also like tosay, regarding this form or forum or this conference, it would be great if everyonewho speaks actually announces their name, their residence, as well as if they areresident or what function they participate,
so we know clear who is speaking.so, and also, yes, the main thing i wanted to say is that we need a lot of theimprovements in nycha in all of the nycha all over the entire city. the main problemis that the residents -- the residents are not respected. that means every residentdepartment, okay. you have this law where if you haveone son, one daughter, or three sons and four daughters, you only get two bedrooms.that is ridiculous. how long are they supposed to stay there? okay. maybe theirfather or mother move in, whatever the case is. they move in. they wanted a transfer.and a transfer seemed impossible. so these children grow straight fromthe age of five, six, ten to about
twenty-five, thirty years older and stilllive with their mama and their brothers and their sisters in a two bedroomestablishment. does that make any sense? i would sayno. i have been trying to get a transfer myself. and i haven't been granted one. mychildren are now above the age of 23, okay. and they actually like need more room thana two bedroom apartment. i have two sons.and anyway, alls i want to say is the improvements that we need are, first of all,if anyone is having heating problems you should give them free heaters. you can'tfix the heat? give the people free heat. don't worry about the fire. if they are oldenough to make a child, they are old enough
to control the heater.two, the elevator doors, that is a problem. some of the elevators are very small. my parts of the building, only onefat person can fit on the elevator, seriously. if i have my shopping cart, thatis it. me and my shopping cart. ms. hudson: thank you.ms. distant: i wanted to say one more thing. the elevator doors should be paintedred so people can distinguish between the rest of the doors on every floor.ms. hudson: thank you. ms. distant: and all the doors on theapartment leading to the roof should be painted a bright color such as orange toindicate that the next steps lead to the
roof, avoiding lock outs.ms. hudson: thank you. ms. distant: nobody wants to freezeto death in the winter time on the roof. ms. hudson: next we have debrellanesbitt, followed by jacqueline young, please. is ms. nesbitt here?resident: yeah, she is coming down the steps.ms. nesbitt: good afternoon. my name is debrella nesbitt, t. a. president formoore houses. as a president for moore houses, i attend the ccop meetings. and atthe ccop meetings we have different liaisons for different officials coming to themeetings giving a report. and one of the things that we foundout is that public housing in lower
manhattan is not receiving the services aspublic housing uptown. the special prosecutor office said that money was givento them to housing for the developments. all of that money went uptown to improve thequality of life of uptown. now when we asked them about it theysaid that was an action by nycha. and that it should be taken up with nycha. nychatried to say that because they felt the crime was higher up there, they would rewardthem with all the money. so it is coming across that if crime is higher in yourdevelopment, nycha will reward you. we also notice that when we start,looked in the journal, all the wi-fi that nycha is providing in manhattan is uptown.and to me, nycha is saying lower east side
and lower manhattan, drop dead.you are improving the uptown for those children when they go to school. when weare not on daylight saving time, our kids are walking in the dark to go to school whohave to catch that 7 o'clock bus. you are making sure that the children uptown canhave the lighting. but the eight year olds downtown, good luck, cause nycha is notlooking out for you. and one other thing i have to say, ido not feel that nycha is giving attention to the residents. i'm not going sayuneducated, but they are undereducated. and if you send papers to their house and theydon't understand it, they dismiss it. i have been trying in my meetings to get themto come to me or to go to their housing
assistant.but it is something that needs to be addressed. a dyslexia person will signbecause they are being told to sign. they don't know what they are signing. theyhaven't read it. and a lot of times when residents have problems, it is because theyhave committed theirselves (sic) to something they didn't understand.i myself don't fully understand the affidavit. i have problems with it. and itis somebody else who is undereducated or having -- are having problems too. i amasking nycha to look into that, talk to the properties managers and find the way thatthey can come together with that. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you. jacqueline
young. followed by julia foster.ms. young: my name is jacqueline young. i am the president of the lennoxroad houses in brooklyn. i have three questions.first question being in regards to recycling. we had representatives come toour building at our last tenant association meeting and rolled out a plan for recyclingfor our building. we are not told exactly when we were going to begin to receive thebins. our buildings are four story walk-ups. they are not that typical projectbuilding. so our tenants are looking forward to participating in the recyclingprogram. we need to know exactly when we are going to receive the bins for theprogram. that is the first question.
the second question is the residents,including myself, pay electric in our development. we are an old building. ourbuilding is over 30 years old. we don't really receive sufficient heat. so most ofthe tenants use electrical heaters and our electric bills are pretty high. and we weretold several months ago that we were going to receive a credit toward the electric.and that has not happened as of yet. i would like to know when that will take placeas well. and the third question, as part of thenext generation nycha is going to be working with developers to bring low income taxcredit houses into the communities. and my question is whether or not nycha or thesedevelopers are going to hire people from
nycha who are qualified to work as propertymanagers, maintenance, what have you, in these new developments when they are built.ms. hudson: thank you. ms. young: when will i get theanswers to these questions? ms. hudson: we will have someonecontact you, ms. young. we have your information. and all of the informationrelated to the questions we received this evening will be posted online.ms. young: thank you. ms. hudson: you are welcome. ms.foster. ms. foster: thanks again for lettingme speak. julia foster. cooper park houses. being that i spoke earlier, therewere some concerns that a lot us have had
here. that was basically how you guys aregoing to generate income from all these buildings that you are going to build. ihad forgotten that we have -- someone had mentioned community centers. we have manycommunity centers that have been taken over by other private entities. and how is itthat you turn over our community centers to others that are private or maybe have a501(3-c). and these folks are not being charged rent. they are all free. and theyrun their programs out of our community centers.i feel that, that is another way that nycha could be generating income into thedevelopments and have certain things fixed. it is only a suggestion. and i suggest wego back to the table and renegotiate some
ofthese contracts where dydc and other programs are taking over our communitycenters. and we have no say. charge these people rent. we used to have rentals. andthat was supposed to go back to the development. charge these folks rent. theyare in our community centers for free. then the other thing i wanted to saywas being contracted out, there are so many things -- someone mentioned also about us being contracted out. there are a lot ofyoung men in my development that have licenses to do a lot of work. and they arenot being hired. section 3, i don't know where it went. it went flying. these guyshave their contractor's; they have their
osha ten; they have their osha 30. and theyare running around looking for work. yet a lot of nycha developments are being workedon and they are not being hired. hire our own. take care of our own.safe, clean, connected. we are very, very disconnected. let's get connected.take care of our own first. then everyone else is secondary. the same with movingpeople into apartments. i heard several people speak on living in apartments thatare not suitable for two and three people inone bedroom. take care of our own first before we move other people in.even with building these new buildings, let's look at the folks that areliving in a one bedroom with four people
living in there. thank you. but those are just my suggestions.ms. hudson: thank you, ms. foster. our last speaker for the evening is greneeharrison. ms. harrison: again, madame chair,distinguished guests, neighbors, residents, it is some concerning issues that are goingon within nycha. madame chair, i have been trying sohard to connect with you. you say you see something, you say something. well, i havesaid something. i am going to the inspector general's office as to what is going onwhere i reside in the rangel houses. because -- because of that, i am beingretaliated against, humiliated against. and
everyone knows what is going on from theborough's office to 250 broadway. and nothing is being done.but you are dragging me in for an administrative hearing that i am anundesirable tenant. and i have been living in 40 years in rangel houses, owing not onedime of rent, follow all rules and regulations.resident: i need your name. ms. harrison: something has got togive. something has got to give. resident: contact list.ms. harrison: madame chair, i would like to have a sit down, one on one, andhave a conversation with you. i understand we are getting ready forour recyclables. yes, we had our meeting at
our ta. we are on board. but we don't haveno bins. so everything that makes us go forward for the next generation, we aregoing three steps backwards. i am just telling it like it is.okay. i am an upstanding citizen. i am a military mom. and i am just being harassednow because i went to the people that i am supposed to go to when corruption is at itsbest. now i am being retaliated against. that is grenee harrison.madame chair, i would like to contact you. ms. hudson: thank you, ms. harrison. that is the not the last speaker. we haveaaron humphrey. resident: hi everyone. i am alsocommunity board six member. my question, i
would like to ask for -- some advice i wouldlike to give is, while you are doing your next generation and allowing developers tobuild on nycha land, as people here are talking about, the nycha -- what do you callit -- apartments being oversized and undersized. can you put in memorandum, ofunderstanding that developers, when making affordable housing units, giving certainhousing units set aside for seniors? because it is seniors that clog up thesethree, four, five bedroom apartments. if you put them in the same neighborhood, samedevelopment, new building, small apartment, there it allows for those big apartments tobe utilized by families that are oversized and moving in. thank you.ms. hudson: thank you, mr. humphrey.
okay, jim vogel.mr. vogel: i'm from senator montgomery's office. chair woman, i hopethat olive tree is going good. the senator's at albany, it is that time ofyear. she has a few concerns she wants expressed.as a member of the new york city alliance to preserve public housing. thankyou, big buck. i support the observations and the suggestions provided by theorganization. and i repeat their call for clear and direct answers to the questionsregarding the tenant outreach efforts for nextgen nycha.having reviewed the plan documents found on the nycha website regarding nextgennycha in wyckoff gardens, i can finally say
this: that none of the buildings should betaller than any of the current wyckoff buildings. it is a matter of being a goodneighbor. the neighborhood's already under gentrification pressures. it would be ahuge effort because i believe that, that area of the gowanus is only allowed to havea maximum number of a ten story building anyway.let's see. all new housing should be 100 percent affordable. nycha should not bein the business of conveying public land to private developers. i am very aware of theprecarious economic cliff that nycha finds itself on. i appreciate the efforts beingmade to carry the agency and all its tenants into a more established and sustainablefuture.
however, nycha must also fulfill itsobligation as a public authority for transparency in communication. the taskahead is daunting and will require the good will and coordinated efforts of nycha, thetenants, new york city community of housing advocates and certainly the electedofficials. communications must be improved if this plan has any chance to succeed.nycha was developed as a means of providing safe and affordable qualityhousing for low to moderate income families in new york city. and it included all theservices required to sustain a quality of life with health centers, community centers,day care, senior centers, et cetera. the need for quality affordablehousing is arguably as great today or
greater than when nycha was founded. nychacannot forget its past. and it must remember its mission. and that was from thesenator. ms. hudson: thank you all for yourcomments. and this concludes nycha's significant amendment to the 2016 annualplan and the fiscal year 2016 capital plan public hearing. have a good evening.
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