Aug. 10 Fight For NYCHA Action-Planning Workshop
Counter each new powerholder strategy
Join us to plan a tenant-led series of actions to defeat the demolition, RAD conversion, and sale of air rights of public housing. Under Mayor Bill de Blasio's planned use of RAD, public housing will be put into the hands of private landlords, will bring overdevelopment to public housing, and will lead to tenant displacement.
DATE : Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019
TIME : 1 pm
PLACE : 419 West 17th Street, Manhattan
RSVP : Fight For NYCHA Action-Planning Workshop [Facebook]
Electeds call for an extension of time ; if NYCHA is not fully-funded, there looms a call for primaries.
Elected officials recently announced a proposal for tenants in Corey Johnson's City Council district to join an advisory board that is set to be empaneled in September, which is when NYCHA was set to ask for Requests for Proposals for the demolition/RAD conversion of Fulton Houses. Now, electeds are saying that they want to push back the start of the RFP timeline to December, to give the advisory board time to meet and to form an alternate funding plan. This kind of arrangement is fraught with risks. First and foremost, using the failed fight to save St. Vincent's Hospital as an example, the one month loan extension given to St. Vincent's was the last nail in its coffin, and it gave electeds an excuse to say that they did all that they could to save St. Vincent's -- which was a lie. Second, no process that electeds offer up to the community is going to be fair or democratic, because every elected with jurisdiction in Chelsea, Hudson Yards, and Hell's Kitchen has a track record of supporting non-stop, community-crushing gentrification. Third, the solution is already known. Fulton Houses needs $168 million. NYCHA, over all, needs an estimated $32 billion. The only acceptable solution is the full-funding of NYCHA.
If electeds don't find the money to fully-fund Fulton Houses without resorting to demolition, RAD conversion, and the sale of air rights, then activists are prepared to make a call that all complicit politicians should be primaried -- or voted out of office, entirely -- beginning with those with jurisdiction over the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
Recent media reports
- Housing Update: Anti-RAD Organizers are Growing, 06 August 2019 [City Limits]
- Meet The Women Behind The 'Occupy NYCHA' Rally At City Hall, 24 July 2019 [Gothamist]
- Occupy NYCHA takes root in South Jamaica, 01 August 2019 [Queens Eagle]
- NYCHA should delay Fulton Houses demolition decision, politicians say, 31 July 2019 [amNewYork]
- NYCHA Crisis Discussion with Senator Salazar in Bushwick, 01 August 2019 [Bushwick Daily]
- Chelsea Reform Democratic Club Panel Sees City Reps, Residents, Advocates Discuss Future of Fulton Houses, 10 July 2019 [Chelsea Community News]
Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are supporting NYCHA to self-determine the future of public houisng in New York City. We oppose Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to put 1/3 of NYCHA into the hands of private landlords. We reject Mayor de Blasio's proposal, because the money exists to save NYCHA. We just have to change our priorities.
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