10:01
That group, which works together fairly regularly on matters of housing, housing production, housing finance, anything to do with some of the, the laws or the regulatory processes involved in, in housing, they notice a substantial slowdown in housing production,…
14:51
Housing in Southampton has just become too expensive for many of the people who work here and who serve our community. Suffach County has called affordable housing a crisis.
15:30
Affordable housing has a bad day, but the reality is that we have needs across, as the report shows, across the spectrum, including people who need us to be able to get out of a starter up front of the starter, or whatever, and so as we go down this path, I'd like…
36:48
Step three, we are drafting a new Community Housing Overlay District in chapter 280 zoning. This would replace the affordable housing district, and that is largely drafted already, but I think we're going to have enough for code committee on the 15th looking at steps 1 and 2, because it's a lot the new.
21:54
And then the, um, last one I'll touch upon is, uh, $500,000, which is a private, um, funding for more affordable housing. We actually have a lot of affordable housing, but like all Westchester towns, there's just not enough of affordable or workforce or what we call missing middle.
1:00:00
The town board, and of course, the zoning was one of the things that people talked about in the Q&A as a necessary change that would incentivize building and other kinds of development that we think is important to make more affordable housing.
30:35
Yeah, this opens up grant opportunities and the thing about affordable housing is it can only be made affordable housing by government subsidies and the public barriers, comments, but we need that housing here.
1:20:38
So, we ended up committing to 5% affordable units, same size. We have two sizes but same size as the other units. A lot of people put affordable housing at a discounted they discount the size of the units.
1:12:51
Um All right. Um affordable housing is a top priority. Um in addition, the lack of senior housing will push aging residents, many who lived here for decades, to seek housing outside the area.
13:09
Um and they're [clears throat] reapplying this year um for the development of the 66 affordable housing senior units at 1719 Edward Street where the old mill used to be.
18:06
I think he did submit somewhere for affordable housing. He said they uh they did meet they did a they're expected spend the next three months to Yeah, they've had one meeting.