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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 21, 2016
Contact: media@nycha.nyc.gov, (212) 306-3322

NYCHA APPOINTS NEXTGEN NEIGHBORHOODS STAKEHOLDER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Residents, Community Representatives, Elected Officials Will Work Directly with Selected Developer Partners, Ensuring Communications and Accountability

NEW YORK— The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) today appointed the first members of the NextGen Neighborhoods Stakeholder Committees for the first two development sites—Holmes Towers in Manhattan and Wyckoff Gardens in Brooklyn. The Stakeholder Committee is an advisory group that will work directly with the selected developer by representing the interests and concerns of residents, neighbors, and the community. To ensure a diversity of perspectives, each Stakeholder Committee is comprised of NYCHA residents, including at least one youth (ages 18-24), one senior resident (ages 64+), and one general resident (no age requirement); a resident from the community; representatives from community-based organizations and advocacy groups; and elected officials.

“We need to have our residents and stakeholders at the table,” said NYCHA Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye. “Resident and community engagement has been at the forefront of the NextGen Neighborhoods program and will continue to guide the entire process.”

NYCHA is pleased to announce the following NextGen Stakeholder Committee members:

Holmes Towers NextGen Neighborhoods Stakeholder Committee

Estelle Natal, Resident

Yolanda Cancell, Resident

Magali Tapia, Resident

George Brown, Resident

Carron Wilks-Ormond, Resident

Jennifer Boose, Resident

Enid Voss, Resident

Milagros Velasquez, Holmes Towers Resident Association Vice President

Loraine Brown, Resident and member of Community Board 8

Gregory Morris, Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, Inc.

Sally Maldonado, Eisman Day Care at Holmes Towers

Office of Liz Krueger, New York State Senate

Office of Robert Rodriguez, New York State Assembly

Office of Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President

Wyckoff Gardens NextGen Neighborhoods Stakeholder Committee

Frances Angel, Resident

Tracy Willomon-Martin, Resident

Renee Alston, Resident

Craig Holmes, Resident

Vivian Iturralde, Resident

Rochelle DuBois, Resident

Raven Gray, Resident

William Frazier, Resident

Judy Vega, Resident

Marilyn Carter, Resident

Valerie Bell, Wyckoff Gardens Resident Association President

Beverly Corbin, Resident and FUREE member-leader

Monica Underwood, Resident and FUREE member-leader

Shatia Strother, FUREE

Sabine Aronowsky, Fifth Avenue Committee and FUREE

Rev. Herbert Daughtry, House of the Lord Church

Craig R. Hammerman, Brooklyn Community Board 6

Office of Representative Nydia Velazquez, United States Congress

Office of Stephen Levin, New York City Council

Office of Jo-Ann Simon, New York State Assembly

Centered on resident and community stakeholder engagement, the NextGen Neighborhoods program enables NYCHA to generate revenue, which will be reinvested back into the development sites and across NYCHA’s portfolio, by leveraging a 50-50 split of market-rate and affordable housing units to be built on underutilized NYCHA property.

Unlike previous approaches that presented a finalized plan for residents after the fact, NYCHA has been seeking resident input at the front end to help shape the final plan. To that end, NYCHA has held 40 meetings and conducted floor-by-floor outreach with residents from Holmes Towers and Wyckoff Gardens since Fall 2015. Their input has helped inform the character of the mix of programs and uses at the sites as well as the pros and cons of building locations—and residents expressed their preferences for possible improvements to the sites. All of this will help integrate the new building into the community. Resident and stakeholder feedback will also help determine priorities for capital repairs, which will occur concurrently with new construction.

This dialogue with residents has also informed the Request for Proposals for developers, which NYCHA expects to issue soon. Developers will be selected by Fall of 2016, and the transaction is expected to close by the end of 2017. The Stakeholder Committee ensures residents will continue to be actively engaged with their voices heard throughout the process.

For more information on the NextGen Stakeholder Committees, please visit http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/nextgen-neighborhoods.page.

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