Speaker Menin asks how HPD will help tenants facing significant increases
Menin asks how HPD will help tenants across these developments. Phillips describes targeted SCRI outreach, and Julie Walpert provides statistics on 2025 increases: 37 developments, average 26% over multiple years, 25 with 20%+ increases.
Okay, and how is HPD going to help these tenants who are all going to be facing very significant rent increases?
Yeah, so we do targeted outreach to enroll households that are eligible on to SCRI.
And then I'll let my colleague, Alika, just talk a little bit about what our process is to do outreach to the households that are eligible for SCRI.
Good afternoon, everyone.
I just wanted to just give you some highlighted, so it's like high level numbers related to the question around
the past 10 years and the proposed rent increases, because we'll be able to, we can give you these numbers and then follow up with what these numbers actually mean.
But I just wanted to get this on the record.
We've had 37 Mitchell Lama developments that saw rent and carrying charge increases in 2025.
So 37 Mitchell Lama developments saw increases in 2025.
These saw an average of 26% increase over multiple years.
And that was comparable to what Adam, the first deputy commissioner, was saying with the 28% at Tracy Towers.
But 15 were initiated in 2025, and the rest were initiated between 2022 and 2024.
25 of those involved a 20% or greater increase over several years.
And seven of those involved a 20% or greater increase in just 2025.
Five Michelama developments have filed for and received rate increases so far this year in 2026.
And the reason why I mentioned these numbers is because we have like the pattern and the trend and we can provide.
you on an individual basis working directly with the members on the developments within their districts that have asked for the increases and what's going on because that's the work that our
portfolio analysts actually do with the managing agents and with the shareholders.
They go through these numbers on a regular basis, and we can provide you with that information because our portfolio analysts are the asset managers in our housing supervision department.
And so they have this information.
This is nothing that is all of a sudden happening.
It's, we've seen, you already stated it, we've seen increases recently that are drastic, but our portfolio analysts are in these buildings every single day.
And so we have the information for you and we can sit with each member.