Chair Sanchez on legal support for co-ops and AEP placement of Mitchell-Lamas
Sanchez asks about legal support resources for co-ops and raises concerns about a Mitchell-Lama placed in the Alternative Enforcement Program. Phillips says HPD doesn't offer legal resources but can connect to nonprofits, and says AEP signals a need for preservation intervention.
In addition to technical assistance, is there legal support that HPD makes available?
Are there partners that offer that, or is this a gap that our city has?
Yeah, so we don't offer those types of...
of legal resources, but there are not-for-profit legal resource providers out there that hopefully we can connect those folks to.
Any you can name so I can go back and tell?
I think we can share that after if that's okay, if any come up in my memory.
It's been a while.
No problem.
We can share it and we have a whole...
Requests and ask for it.
Perfect.
Perfect.
AEP and Mitchell Lamas.
I want to make sure to get this on the record today.
I represent a Mitchell Lama that is in the Alternative Enforcement Program, which makes absolutely no sense from the perspective of wanting to preserve affordable housing, but then we're, you know, as a city
giving these buildings all these violations and increasing their debts to the city and their financial responsibilities.
What is the position of the administration on Mitchell Lamas and affordable developments being in the AEP program?
I mean, so there's a, when you look at the development side and the pipeline of projects coming through HPD and then the code enforcement side, there is,
and I think there always has been kind of a pretty strong firewall to ensure that the housing maintenance code is being enforced appropriately.
AEP, when a building's in AEP, it's a really good indication that a larger preservation and stabilization outcome needs to happen.
And we should be able to divert, not divert, but apply resources to those.
types of projects to get them out of AEP.
Thank you.
Look forward to more conversation on that.