Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024, Time: 9:30 am-11:00 am, Place Zoom
SUMMARY
This meeting will focus on housing development alternatives; achieving better standards of living. This city has a misunderstanding of what real development is, their policies increase instability, homelessness, housing, and health crises.
CHAIR: John Mudd
WELCOME / INTRODUCTIONS
We appreciate all suggestions to help us run this meeting proficiently.
PURPOSE
The Homeless and Housing members, attendees, and speakers share knowledge, ideas, and resources to identify problems and find solutions to the homeless crisis.
5 min
POLICY MEETING UPDATES
The prior 8:30 Homeless and Housing Policy meeting wrap-up as presented by attending members.
3 min
COUNCIL HIGHLIGHTS
Council’s progress report on actions and initiatives.
5 min
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION(S) AND OR UPDATES:
The below list of intros and updates are brief; everyone is welcomed to present for a planned lengthier discussion
5 mins
HOMELESSNESS BY THE NUMBERS
The crisis is deepening. Before, during, and after, no real serious plan to even keep it in check is working. Evictions are being processed like a bread-line in a shelter. More than half the renters are cost burden. Today, we’ll discuss the numbers with DHS, Department of Homeless Services.
Speaker(s): Steven King, DHS, Tamara Felix, CUCS
15 min
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE
We’re looking for alternatives and a better standard of living. The Empire State Development Corporation misunderstands the word development. We must look outside the normalized wealth extraction policies.
Speakers: Arielle Hersh, UHAB, Elise Goldin, New Economy NYC
30 min
DEMOLITION ALTERNATIVES TO THE ELLIOT CHELSEA AND FULTON HOUSE
Related and NYCHA plans to end public housing. They have plans to reduce people’s protections and demolish their homes. We’re strategizing to educate, coalesce, organize, and save public housing
5 min
PUBLIC CONCERNS
10 min
ACTIONS
2 min
ANNOUNCEMENTS / EVENTS
2 min
DEVELOPING INITIATIVES & PROGRAMS
4 min
AOB
2 min
Contact hello@localhost or john.mudd@usa.net for more information and Zoom invitations.
ADDENDUM
Announcement:
“on Monday, March 11 at 11 AM on City Hall Steps the NYC Council Progressive Caucus and the NYC Comptroller’s office will launch the Homes Now, Homes for Generations Campaign with a coalition of housing advocates, unions, and faith groups. The Homes Now, Homes for Generations campaign is calling on the City to invest $2 billion over the next 4 years to build and preserve permanently affordable, community-controlled housing in NYC. We’re calling for 25% by 2025: a 25% increase in the capital HPD budget so that the city can build more affordable housing AND protect existing affordable housing. We know that the private market alone cannot solve the housing crisis. We’re calling for a 25% increase of the HPD capital budget to fund housing controlled by the people – not private developers. we’re calling for funding two existing programs: Neighborhood Pillars and Open Door. We’re not re-creating the wheel, but funding two existing programs with great potential that have been underfunded.
Neighborhood Pillars helps community organizations acquire and rehabilitate for-profit-owned housing. This would allow community-based organizations with deep ties to the local neighborhood to control housing stock. The City put this program on the back burner in June 2019 and preserved less than 400 units since the program was launched in December 2018. Increased funding would scale this program back up to its original vision.
Open Door finances the new construction of multi-family shared equity co-operatives. This grants New Yorkers a path toward homeownership so that they can stay in their homes and create generational wealth. For thousands of New York families left out of the traditional homeownership market, this can change the trajectory of generations. Our campaign seeks to quadruple the annual budget of this program, creating more affordable homeownership opportunities for working-class New Yorkers.