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City’s Finance-Driven Approach to Managing NYCHA is Wrong for Tenants | OpEd for City Limits
On Tuesday, July 28th, the Chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Greg Russ introduced a new “preservation strategy” for the city’s public housing. As City Limits reporter Sadef Ali Kully outlined recently, this strategy involves creating a new public entity called The Public Preservation Trust.…
Study: NYCHA Living Conditions Affects Residents’ Health | NY1
Eighty-one percent of residents living in five public housing complexes across the Rockaway peninsula are in desperate need of immediate repairs to their apartments. That’s according to a new study by the Regional Plan Association — conducted with Community Voices Heard — a grassroots group fighting for housing justice. Their…
Know Your Rights – One Pager
Tenants in NYC have a robust and growing set of rights that have been won through past organizing. This printable one pager gives you an overview of the rights you're entitled to, some insight into the meaningful role tenant organizing, or tenants who are purusing their right to housing collectively,…
Lawmakers Support ‘Pied-à-Terre’ Tax on Multimillion-Dollar Second Homes | Article from The New York Times
A plan to tax the rich on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City has rapidly moved closer to reality, as legislative leaders in Albany and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have all signed off on the idea as a funding stream for the city’s beleaguered subway system.Mr. Cuomo said on…
How Can NYCHA Tenants Take Control of their Developments? | Informational Pamphlet
Resident management corporations (RMCs) are one specific institutional structure through which NYCHA tenants can take control of their developments. RMCs are an available avenue through which public housing tenants can collectively take on full or partial management responsibilities of their developments. The idea for them grew out of the civil…
Where’s the Money?: “There’s no money.”
Time and again, we are told by public officials that there is no public money to fix NYCHA. That private investment is the only option. As a starting place for contesting this, the Justice For All Coalition compiled a list of pots where that money could come from - some…
Submit Formal Letter of Complaint or Sue NYCHA with JustFix.nyc
Since January, the Justice For All Coalition has worked with more than 100 tenants to submit formal letters of complaint. These letters document the repair needs in their apartments and buildings, and are sent to their local housing management office. The letters are completed on JustFix.nyc's website (https://justfix.nyc/); they have…
Where’s the Money?: Stop Sunnyside Yards! Reparative City Building Now! | OpEd for City Limits
Over the last year, the quasi-private, city-affiliated NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) has been peddling yet another megaproject for southwestern Queens. This time the proposal focuses on decking and developing over Sunnyside Yards. Through a series of public meetings the agency asked residents to imagine and think big about how…
Report: A Green New Deal for NYCHA Communities | Data for Progress
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is in grave physical, financial and political disrepair. The agency faces a repair backlog of $31.8 billion according to its most recent capital plan, which was based on an extensive Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) study. This backlog is the result…
Bernie and AOC’s Green New Deal for Public Housing Act Would Transform America | The Nation
On Thursday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont introduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, taking the fight against the housing and climate crises to the halls of Congress. Through a 10-year mobilization of up to $172 billion, the bill would decarbonize…
