Stevens previews Cornerstone questions and addresses NYCHA facility issues
Before transitioning to Cornerstone questions, Stevens explains NYCHA was not invited to the hearing to keep focus on programs, but acknowledges facility maintenance and repair issues are a major concern. She plans a future joint hearing with NYCHA.
I just want to say before, while we're transitioning into cornerstones, one of the things we were...
Going to invite NYCHA to have a conversation about it, but then I felt like if we invited NYCHA, then this whole hearing would be about the repairs because that is such a real thing.
And that is probably the biggest issue.
And the thing that when I was in the community, it just drove me the craziest, right?
Like I had one center that had a roof that leaked, had another center every time it rained, it rained in this community center.
And all those issues are prevalent in a lot of community centers.
And then we've been hearing even issues around like,
you know, developments that turn rad pack, how, what's going on there.
And there's a lot.
So we did not bring them in because we didn't want the whole hearing to be about that, but we are looking to plan on having a deeper conversation with the NITRA chair and ourselves to see if we can have a more comprehensive hearing, because I do think we're at the point of like,
there is not a lot of clarity about moving forward.
So I say all that to say there are obviously going to be some questions about it, and I know what you're going to say is going to be like, well, that's a question you have to ask the nature.
So I'm just preempting your response to the questions that we're going to ask.