On the panel, there are
several affordable housing advocates, a number of Grand Street residents who have historically resisted low income housing on the SPURA parcels and a third contingent made up of «moderates,» people who have advocated compromise in order to «get something built.»
Silver has also been a longtime
advocate for
affordable housing, negotiating rent protections for 3,500 residents of Battery Park City's Gateway Plaza as the building's owner has tried
several times to turn the apartments market - rate, residents said.