Public testimony: Ibon Muhammad, member since 1969, supports project

I'm sorry.

Hello.

I apologize to the council.

I don't know how I got named iPhone.

My name is Ibon Muhammad.

And I have been a member of Masjid Abdul Muxi Khalifa since 1969.

I was a college student.

I was the beneficiary of all of those elders that established that community.

I was taught very, very well by them.

And the most important thing that I was taught was service to others and service to our community in particular.

I have been a member of the board of directors in the past.

I was the president of the Moss Corporation for four years.

And I was the housing director at the Fifth Avenue Committee doing affordable housing development and special needs housing development for 10 years.

I would manage all of the development projects that would be entered into by the organization.

So I have been experienced doing this for many, many years.

And I'm so thrilled and happy to see my community.

take a step forward to start doing development projects that benefit the community because we have benefited that community for so many years when no one was there.

When the community needed help, when the community was downtrodden, we were there defending and cleaning up and teaching.

Anyway, I would say that our seniors are some of the main victims of the displacement in our neighborhood.

These are the long-term residents that have been there since they were young, and now they're in their 60s and 70s and cannot afford to live in the community that they helped create.

And so we are providing housing to a group that really, really needs it and really, really deserves it.

And I would like to just say that, that this project seems so very well planned.

As someone who has been a part of planning these types of developments, I see the work that's gone into it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

This panel is now excused.