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Chair Lee on trends in Mitchell-Lama pipeline and capital deployment

New York City Council · Jul 15, 2026 · starts 0:59:06 · 1 min 1 sec

Lee asks whether the percentage of Mitchell-Lama units is similar year over year. Phillips says they've seen increases in Mitchell-Lamas coming to HPD, driven by aging stock and more forceful HPD encouragement to pursue preservation.

Linda Lee

And then just in terms of how you're determining how many units, since you don't separate it out, are you seeing year over year, though, that percentage-wise it's pretty similar year over year?

Linda Lee

Or have you seen significant increases, decreases, and what has caused that?

Adam Phillips

Yeah.

Adam Phillips

I think we've seen increases in the amount of Mitchell llamas that are coming to us.

Adam Phillips

I think there's probably two reasons.

Adam Phillips

I think one is just the age of the housing stock.

Adam Phillips

Some folks, and it's not unique to Mitchell llamas, can put their heads in the sand and hope that they don't have to do their capital needs and then they wake up and it's time.

Adam Phillips

I think in other cases, when our housing supervision team is working with the Mitchell Llamas,

Adam Phillips

You know, we want to make sure we're addressing capital needs, and I think we've been a little bit more forceful with saying it's time to– we really need to do a preservation outcome here.

Linda Lee

Okay, perfect.

Linda Lee

I just want to recognize we've also been joined by Councilmember Wong and anyone else that I missed.