MEDIA ADVISORY : Wed., Sept. 18 presser 5:30 pm before Fight For NYCHA town hall

Join us Wed. night at 5:30 pm at PS 33 at 281 9th Ave., Manhattan, for a press conference.

MEDIA ADVISORY

Contact : Marni Halasa, (917) 501-9444, team@mg.fightfornycha.org

NYCHA Tenants, Activists to Hold Press Conference Before Sept. 18 Fight For NYCHA Town Hall

[NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 17] ---- NYCHA tenants, tenant activists, and civic leaders will hold a press conference before the start of the Fight For NYCHA town hall on Wednesday night to make the case that the money exists to preserve and expand public housing in New York City. Speakers will propose a People's Budget to raise the money to fully-fund NYCHA.

DATE : Wednesday, 18-Sept-2019

TIME : 5:30 pm

PLACE : PS 33, 281 9th Ave. (Btwn. 26 and 27th Aves.), Manhattan

RSVP : Town Hall to Fully-Fund NYCHA [Facebook]

DOCUMENT : People's Budget [Archive・org]

Speakers at the press conference will repeat past demands : (i). to stop any demolition of public housing, including at Fulton Houses ; (ii). to stop any RAD conversion of NYCHA, including at Fulton Houses ; (iii). to oppose any sale of air rights ; and (iv). to demand that New York City Government keep public housing public. Immediately following the press conference, organisers will facilitate a town hall meeting to discuss the People's Budget.

PLEASE NOTE : Civil Rights Attorney Norman Siegel has resigned as counsel for Fight For NYCHA. We are looking for a new civil rights attorney.

Fight For NYCHA is a collective of tenants, activists, artists, and advocates, who are providing technical support to NYCHA tenants 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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Fight For NYCHA Labor Day Protest : Daniel Dromm : Put NYCHA in the City Budget

Fight For NYCHA Labor Day Protest : Daniel Dromm : Put NYCHA in the City Budget

Join us a for a Labor Day protest at the District Office of New York City Councilmember Daniel Dromm.

As chair of the City Council Finance Committee, Dromm drafts the New York City Budget. But for the 2020 Fiscal Year budget, Dromm threw NYCHA under the bus, bc, even though NYCHA is in a crisis, facing a $32 billion deficit in its capital improvement budget, Dromm left NYCHA out of the $92.8 billion budget deal reached with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

We are protesting Dromm, bc Fulton Houses faces demolition, particularly if Mayor de Blasio and NYCHA issue a Request For Proposal next month.

DATE : Monday, 02-Sept-2019

TIME : 1 - 2 pm

PLACE : 37-32 75th St., Jackson Heights, Queens

RSVP : Daniel Dromm : Put NYCHA in the City Budget [Facebook]

Dromm claims he supports diversity, but he turns his back on POC, who make up 90 per cent. of NYCHA tenants.

Dromm claims he knows oppression, and, as a result, he identifies with people of color. However, Dromm has kept quiet as Mayor de Blasio has proposed to convert public housing under a HUD program known as Rental Assistance Demonstration, or RAD. RAD has been shown to lead to spikes in evictions. Because 90 per cent. of NYCHA tenants are people of color, there is a disparate impact of the negative aspects of RAD conversion on people of color.

Recent media reports

• Hundreds of NYCHA Evictions Raise Questions About Process, 14 August 2019 [City Limits]


• HUD proposes rule setting higher bar for housing discrimination claims, 16 August 2019 [POLITICO]

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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Fight For NYCHA Aug. 10 Action-Planning Workshop and Looming Call For Primaries

Fight For NYCHA Aug. 10 Action-Planning Workshop and Looming Call For Primaries. #KeepPublicHousingPublic

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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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

RSVP : Protest Corey Johnson to save Fulton Houses [Facebook]

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

RSVP : Demand $32 billion for NYCHA [Facebook]

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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