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Chair Sanchez on financial indicators and risk assessment for Mitchell-Lamas

New York City Council · Jul 15, 2026 · starts 2:02:56 · 1 min 8 sec

Sanchez asks what indicators HPD receives regularly beyond financial statements and how they assess risk. Phillips cites financials, vacancy reports, outstanding payables, and online violation profiles as key indicators.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

That concludes our first round of questions.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

We'll have a second round.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

So I just want to wrap up a couple of more questions that I had.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

And just to kind of recap, right, I feel like every single council member has said a version of the same thing.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

Maintenance increases should be gradual.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

We want to be a partner.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

We want to help so that we're not seeing dramatic increases that are making up for multiple years at a time.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

So more to come at the roundtable, but we certainly want to be a partner on that.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

And just a follow-up, you said, so HPD is receiving annual financial statements.

Pierina Ana Sanchez

Is there any...

Pierina Ana Sanchez

Are there other indicators that HPD is receiving regularly from Michilama properties?

Pierina Ana Sanchez

And how are you taking that information into account in terms of assessing risk?

Adam Phillips

Yeah, so the financials are the key indicator of the financial health and sometimes the physical health of the building.

Adam Phillips

We also get a vacancy report, outstanding payables.

Adam Phillips

We can also see online, you know, what the violation profile looks like.