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Malik Evans: “The city doesn't own a single house.”

Featuring: Malik Evans, Democratic | Mayor of Rochester, New York

Rochester Mayor Malik Evans and City Council leaders on the city budget

Published July 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 39:35

Of the housing business. Why don't you just let people buy. Lots and builders build without all your involvement? Yeah. First off, the city's not in the housing business. The city doesn't own a single house. But I think you're right. We are simply facilitators. The houses that were built, for example, through. By the block were built through private folks. So I agree with you. (39:35–39:39)

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“We were able to maintain any programs that we started with ARPA.”
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“We were able to keep the property tax levy flat and also not cut any programs.”
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“Our Peace collective, which is 23 plus organizations, that's still continuing.”
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“Office of Financial Empowerment is still fully funded up and operational.”
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“Rec center hours still functioning. Having socio-emotional support in all of our centers.”
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“Summer jobs programs, jobs programs for 12 to 14 year olds.”
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“We're spending $27 million less than we did the year before.”
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“Our bond outlook is stable.”
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“Our action team, we funded it in last year's budget, we funded it again in this year's budget.”
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“Juvenile justice pilot that we have in our program...is funded in this budget.”
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“We are going to actually exceed [planting] 6,000 [trees].”
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“We are prepared for [federal budget cuts].”
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“We wanted to make sure that we were not going to go back on any of our promises.”
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“We actually expanded our composting program.”
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“We are funding a study for the public market because we want to take our public market to the next level.”
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“We have money in the budget that we were able to do that again.”
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“We also did not stop our roof repair and vacant, Vacant. Vacant. Vacant lot, vacant housing dollars as well.”
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“We use ARPA dollars for that, but we also are using local money for that.”
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“We also leverage T hip dollars from New York State as well.”
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“It would be disastrous if we got any federal funding pulling.”
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“These are taxpayer dollars that New York sends to D.C.”
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“We just joined a lawsuit a couple of weeks ago, Trump versus San Francisco.”
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“We just filed a lawsuit for them trying to take appropriated EPA funding.”
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“The current skinny budget that is proposed from the federal government right now zeroes out CDBG dollars.”
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“That's over $10 million to the city of Rochester.”
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“This is the first time ever where I've crafted a budget in four years as mayor... where we've had to have in the back of our mind what's…”
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“This year I did not bring a tax levy increase to city council.”
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“Inflation is still too high. People are still trying to keep up with prices that the president said would come down on January 1st, which…”
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“We just announced in the northeast district that we are going to build a bunch of homes on city vacant lots that private industry will be…”
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“The state has modeled a program after Rochester called block by Block, which we're also going to take advantage of.”
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“We cut the ribbon on some new homes that were built there [on Superior Street].”
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“The RFP is due, I think in another week for the new homes that will be built over in the Sil street neighborhood on vacant lots that are…”
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“Our goal has been, is to build as many new housing units, be they rental or for home ownership through partnerships as much as possible.”
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“Any of our affordable housing projects are run by the private industry.”
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“We got $25 million in poverty aid. It's a direct cash program, very similar to guaranteed basic income.”
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“We want to be lead-free by 2030.”
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“We were able to go to New York State and get dollars [for the lead line replacement program].”
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“We are pretty positive that by 2030 we will have every single lead line replaced in Rochester.”
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