Council Member Hudson on Tivoli Towers construction oversight and displacement prevention
Hudson says she'll follow up on Tivoli Towers' ongoing construction issues, and asks what HPD offers households that don't qualify for SCRI/DRI but can't afford increases. Phillips says Section 8 vouchers would be ideal but they're in shortfall.
And so that would obviously be the case at Tivoli Towers?
That should, any project that HPD lends on and any private lender.
Yeah, so HDC as the private lender would do monthly walkthroughs for the construction period.
Okay, it would be great.
My office will follow up with you directly on that because Tivoli Towers has had ongoing construction for years and continues to find new issues and concerns.
And so I'll follow up on that one.
For Mitchell-Lama households that do not qualify for scree and dree but still cannot afford rent increases, what additional assistance or policy options is HPD considering to help prevent displacement?
So ideally, we would be able to offer Section 8 vouchers to those households.
Fortunately, we're in shortfall, so we don't have that ability at the moment.
I would say the best thing we can do is advocate for additional federal resources so we have more Section 8 to offer tenants.
Okay.
Thank you.
That's it.
Thank you.