Protest Corey Johnson Monday Night ; Other Updates From Fight For NYCHA

Protest Corey Johnson to save Fulton Houses ; and other updates from @FightForNYCHA. #KeepPublicHousingPublic

Protest Corey Johnson to save Fulton Houses

No #RAD-ification of Fulton Houses !

Join us for a protest on Monday night at the apartment house of New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Chelsea). We demand that Council Speaker Johnson allocate $168 million to save Fulton Houses from demolition and to stop the handing over of Fulton Houses to a private landlord.

DATE : Monday, July 15, 2019

TIME : 6:30 pm

PLACE : 220 West 15th Street, Manhattan

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Update on Councilmember Ben Kallos' Forum on Overdevelopment

Councilmember Ban Kallos (D-Sutton Place) was generous to allow Fight For NYCHA to speak at his Forum on Overdevelopment at CUNY Graduate Center on June 27. Councilmmember Kallos noted how his office and the office of Borough President Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) had opposed any development of NYCHA that circumvented the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure ("ULURP"). Please watch the Occupy Radio video of the brief remarks made about the importance of putting the plan by Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York), calling for the demolition and RAD conversion of public housing, on the public agenda.

VIDEO : Fighting Every Step of the Way to Save NYCHA [Occupy Radio via YouTube]

Update on Twitter Suspension

When the @FightForNYCHA Twitter account was restored, we were notified that our account had been flagged as spam. We don't know how Twitter reached that conclusion, but it may be that our opposition were flagging our posts as spam. Whatever the true cause, we have set up a back-up Twitter account. Please take time to follow @FullyFundNYCHA.

Search for 501(c)(3) Sponsor

Fight For NYCHA is searching for a fiscal sponsor to support our commitment to public service. Our core mission is three-fold : to bring relief to public housing tenants, to preserve and expand public housing, and to treat housing as a human right. If your group can act as our 501(c)(3) sponsor, please contact us at : team (at) mg (dot) fightfornycha (dot) org.

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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : @FightForNYCHA's Twitter account was suspended

The @FightForNYCHA Twitter account has been suspended ; do your part to hold elected officials accountable by demanding $32 billion for NYCHA. #KeepPublicHousingPublic

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact : Louis Flores, (347) 551-2299, team@mg.fightfornycha.org

The @FightForNYCHA Twitter account has been suspended ; do your part to hold elected officials accountable by demanding $32 billion for NYCHA. #KeepPublicHousingPublic

13 June 2019 (New York) - Fight For NYCHA's Twitter account, @FightForNYCHA, was suspended shortly after 5 pm on Wed., June 12, without specific indication for cause. An appeal has been filed to overturn the suspension. The account suspension followed the commencement of a protest campaign to secure $168 million to save the Fulton Houses public housing development in Chelsea from demolition and RAD conversion, which would turn public housing into a for-profit business by putting the Fulton Houses into the hands of private landlords. Fight For NYCHA is working to empower public housing tenants to determine the future of public housing in New York City. The Twitter account suspension also took place just one day after former New York City Councilmember Sal Albanese tweeted that his plan to take money out of politics, called Democracy Vouchers, would politically empower registered voters living in New York City Housing Authority apartments.

Fight For NYCHA respectfully requests that the media and the public hold Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York City), New York Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Chelsea), and Councilmember Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) accountable for not fully-funding NYCHA on the municipal level. Other elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14), have similarly turned their backs on people with the least. As argued by Fight For NYCHA, the Rental Assistance Demonstration program ("RAD") of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is a pretext for the privatisation of NYCHA, because it is woefully inadequate to fund the preservation and expansion of public housing. In the case of Ocean Bay Apartments in Far Rockaway, for example, NYCHA needed $200 million in FEMA relief money to complete the renovations, money that will not be available at other NYCHA public housing apartment complexes, like at the Fulton Houses in Chelsea.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are protesting 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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For Immediate Release : Demand $32 billion for NYCHA : First protest set to #FindTheMoneyNow to #KeepPublicHousingPublic

Demand $32 billion for NYCHA : First protest set to #FindTheMoneyNow to #KeepPublicHousingPublic

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Contact : Louis Flores, (347) 551-2299, team@mg.fightfornycha.org

Demand $32 billion for NYCHA : First protest set to #FindTheMoneyNow to #KeepPublicHousingPublic

25 May 2019 (New York) - Tenants of the Fulton Houses public housing development in Chelsea, members of Fight For NYCHA, and allies will be holding a protest at New York City Hall to demand that New York City Council reäppropriate the $10 billion from the capital budget for new jails and instead redirect those monies to the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA. Tenants are also calling for the New York City Council to hold hearings to establish a corporate income tax for corporations of a certain size that operate in New York City. These monies are being demanded to fully-fund NYCHA so as to avoid Mayor Bill de Blasio's plans to put NYCHA into the hands of private landlords.

DATE : Wednesday, 29 May 2019

TIME : 10 am

PLACE : Western Gate to New York City Hall

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Since NYCHA is comprised of 90% Black and Latinx families, this means that the politicians are making a political calculation that they can exploit public housing tenants. Politicians, who support the plans announced by Mayor de Blasio to demolish public housing apartment buildings and to put public housing into the hands of private landlords, are keeping quiet about the racial implications of their actions or support. This is wrong.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are protesting 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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