Brian Lear on WNYC. Now, affordable housing without for-profit developers.

We're joined by New York City Council Labor Committee Chair, Carmen Delarosa,

and Housing Chair Piaina Sanchez on their new bill to expand

nonprofit ownership of housing, community ownership of housing, as a weapon against

displacement.

Carmen Delarosa's district is in Upper Manhattan in the Bronx,

Washington Heights and Inwood, Kingsbridge, Highbridge, Marble Hill,

P. Arena-Sanchez's district is right next to it,

based in the Bronx University Heights Morris Heights

Fordham, Bedford Park and other parts of Kingsbridge and Marble Hill.

Council members, thanks for coming on. Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you for coming on. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you for having us. Yes, it's a pleasure to be here.

First, for people who don't even realize you can have housing development these days without

for profit developers, can you just describe these categories? these days without for-profit developers.

Can you just describe these categories that you're looking to expand?

Maybe as the Housing Committee Chair, Council Member Sanchez,

you want to start on that? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Brian.

So in the city of New York, we have many different kinds of housing.

We have public housing, which was largely built in the 30s and 40s.

We don't make very much of that anymore.

We have private development, which is any company, LLC,

private owners, sometimes they rezoned.

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