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Press Conference and Protest of NYCHA Working Group at PS 33

The NYCHA Working Group is corrupt !

Please join us for a press conference and protest outside the next NYCHA Working Group.

Mayor de Blasio has empaneled a rigged and stacked NYCHA working group to determine the future of Fulton, Chelsea, and Elliott Houses. But this working group has purposely excluded tenants from Holmes Towers, Cooper Park, Wyckoff Gardens, LGA Houses, and Harborview — even though infill has been planned at those developments.

Date : Tues., 29-Oct-2019
Time : 5:30 pm
Place : PS 33, 281 9th Ave., Manhattan
RSVP : Press Conference and Protest of NYCHA Working Group [Facebook]

What is more, Fight For NYCHA has discovered that Mayor de Blasio has instituted a gag rule, meaning that the discussions of the NYCHA working group will be kept secret. This is a violation of Government transparency. It also violates the First Amendment rights of tenants to be able to speak in informed discussions about their own future. The gag rule and the restrictions in attendance also violate the State’s open meetings law.

Fight For NYCHA raised the issue of legality to these proceedings at first working group, since any disposition of City real property must be subject to the ULURP process.

Please join Fight For NYCHA in demanding to attend and be heard at the second meeting of the NYCHA working group.

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First meeting of NYCHA Working Group reveals lies, betrayals, and Electeds and police conspire to keep secret proceedings that will determine the future of public housing in New York City

Bill de Blasio’s NYCHA Working Group is a sham !

AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL FIGHT FOR NYCHA TOWN HALL, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York City) reportedly freaked out. Two news articles planted in POLITICO New York reported that U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY 10) opposed the demolition of public housing and was calling for a delay on the Request for Proposal for demolition and RAD conversion of Fulton Houses in Cheslea. One report, in particular, had noted that, in his desperation, U.S. Rep. Nadler had allegedly called on Comptroller Scott Stringer (D-New York City) and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams (D-New York City) to show up to community meetings about the future of public housing. The move to include Stringer and Williams was seen as a political threat to New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Chelsea), in whose Council district the four public housing developments are located, which face some degree of privatisation.

But at the first meeting of the working group empaneled by Mayor de Blasio and other Electeds, tasked with determining the future of the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA, Deputy Mayor Vicki Been revealed that demolition remained on the table, despite private assurances allegedly made by U.S. Rep. Nadler and others following the Fight For NYCHA town hall.

Vicki Been presentation for Demolition, Infill, RAD, MIH, and Air Rights Sale at NYCHA Working Group

In order to get video of Deputy Mayor Vicki Been’s presentation about NYCHA’s future, a member of Fight For NYCHA had to risk arrest.

A member of Fight For NYCHA had to risk arrest in order to crash the secret first meeting of the NYCHA Working Group. Please advance to 2:00 to hear audio (and video later) of NYPD Inspector Howard Redmond and, later, other NYPD officers, threaten the Fight For NYCHA member with arrest for demanding to bear witness to the NYCHA Working Group meeting.

NYPD threaten Fight For NYCHA member with arrest at Bill de Blasio’s NYCHA Working Group

Did Robert Atterbury violate New York’s open meetings law ?

Before police showed up to menace the Fight For NYCHA member, U.S. Rep. Nadler’s aide, Robert Atterbury, made deceptive statements by materially misrepresenting the proceedings of the NYCHA Working Group as a secret meeting that was closed to the public. In New York State, Government meetings are open meetings. Yet, Mr. Atterbury repeatedly indicated that a meeting that would discuss the disposition of NYCHA public assets and City real property was not a public meeting and that, improbably, the NYCHA Working Group was not a “civic group.” Under New York State penal code, obstructing Government administration is a class A misdemeanor in the second degree. See § 195.05.

Fight For NYCHA calls on U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler to fire his aide, Robert Atterbury, for violating democracy, transparency.

Please join us for a press conference and protest outside the next NYCHA Working Group.

Mayor de Blasio has empaneled a rigged and stacked NYCHA Working Group to determine the future of Fulton, Chelsea, and Elliott Houses. But this working group has purposely excluded tenants from Holmes Towers, Cooper Park, Wyckoff Gardens, LGA Houses, and Harborview — even though infill has been planned at those developments.

Date : Tues., 29-Oct-2019
Time : 5:30 pm
Place : PS 33, 281 9th Ave., Manhattan
RSVP : Press Conference and Protest of NYCHA Working Group [Facebook]

What is more, Fight For NYCHA has discovered that Mayor de Blasio has instituted a gag rule, meaning that the discussions of the NYCHA Working Group will be kept secret. This is a violation of Government transparency. It also violates the First Amendment rights of tenants to be able to speak in informed discussions about their own future. The gag rule and the restrictions in attendance also violate the State’s open meetings law.

Fight For NYCHA raised the issue of legality to these proceedings at first working group, since any disposition of City real property must be subject to the ULURP process.

Please join Fight For NYCHA in demanding to attend and be heard at the second meeting of the NYCHA Working Group.

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NYCHA tenants, candidates, activists speak at rally, march to Corey Johnson’s apartment house, demanding full-funding for NYCHA

Things will never get better unless, you unite and join Fight for NYCHA

Posted by OccupyRadio.net on Sunday, October 6, 2019

Lindsey Boylan, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives (NY-10), spoke at the Fight For NYCHA "Stop the War on the Poor" rally at Union Square Park. Ms. Boylan is challenging U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the Democratic Party primary in 2020. On Family Day at Fulton Houses last summer, U.S. Rep. Nadler claimed that it was "not a Federal issue" for him to get involved to save Fulton Houses, much less NYCHA.

Posted by Fight For NYCHA on Monday, October 7, 2019

I’m going to say it again. NYCHA residents must join with other NYCHA tenants and show your power to make change. Join Fight for NYCHA now!

Posted by Mike Mccabe on Sunday, October 6, 2019
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Union Square Rally to build public support for a People’s Budget approach to fully-fund NYCHA

This is a City-wide rally to demonstrate support for a grassroots approach to fully-funding the New York City Hosing Authority, or NYCHA. Fight For NYCHA consulted with tenants and passed the People’s Budget for Housing, Justice, and Dignity during a Town Hall meeting at P.S. 33 in Chelsea on Sept. 18. The People’s Budget demonstrates that funding for public housing is reasonable, within reach, and some of these ideas are legislation-ready.

DATE : Sunday, Oct 6, 2019
TIME : 1 pm
PLACE : Union Square Park, Manhattan
RSVP : Stop the War on the Poor [Facebook]

The immediate emergency is to take $10 billion that Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to use to build new jails and, instead, to redirect that money to public housing.

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The People’s Budget passes to demonstrate that the money exists to fully-fund NYCHA

At Fight For NYCHA townhall, tenants from Fulton, Chelsea, Elliott, and Harborview were invited to participate.

Area public housing tenants, neighbors, and civic leaders were invited to participate in the Fight For NYCHA townhall at PS 33 in Chelsea on Sept. 18. The Thursday night meeting was solely focused on discussing and adopting a People’s Budget approach to fully-funding the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA. (Se puede leer el Presupuesto del Pueblo en español.)

A presentation was made to show that the People’s Budget was within reach, was reasonable, was not punitive, and that, some of the ideas it contained, were legislation-ready.

Following the presentation, attendees of the townhall adopted by a majority show of hands the People’s Budget.

The People’s Budget passes by a majority show of hands.

Demolition, RAD conversion, the sale of air rights, and infill development should be the last resort — not the first resort.

By adopting the People’s Budget, NYCHA tenants are communicating to Electeds that the money exists to fully-fund NYCHA. Therefore, there should be no need to either demolish public housing, hand public housing assets over to private developers or landlords, sell air rights, or to propose infill development at NYCHA. At this townhall, public housing tenants also proposed two ideas : that Tenants have a final say in the governance at NYCHA (for example, not allowing executives to over-ride NYCHA tenants on the Board of Directors, and to eliminate any mechanism that subverts tenants’ rights to have a democratic say in NYCHA’s governance, to paraphrase some townhall attendees’ ideas) and to improve relations between NYCHA management and tenants.

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To save and improve NYCHA, please come to our Town Hall on Wed. night at PS 33 at 6 pm

Town Hall to Fully-Fund NYCHA

The Problem : NYCHA Needs $$$

The Solution : The People’s Budget

Date : Wed., 18 Sept 2019
Time : 6 – 8:30 pm
Place : PS 33, 281 9th Ave., Manhattan (btwn 26th. and 27th Streets)
RSVP : Town Hall to Fully-Fund NYCHA [Facebook]

Please review the draft People’s Budget, because we will be reviewing this at the Town Hall.

Join us for a conversation on the problem and solution facing NYCHA.

Please don’t forget to R.S.V.P.

Date : Wed., 18 Sept 2019
Time : 6 – 8:30 pm
Place : PS 33, 281 9th Ave., Manhattan (btwn 26th. and 27th Streets)
RSVP : Town Hall to Fully-Fund NYCHA [Facebook]

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Protest against Daniel Dromm for throwing NYCHA under the bus

Labor Day protest and march, demanding that Daniel Dromm put NYCHA in the New York City budget

BUSTED : Even though NYCHA is in a crisis, facing a $32 billion deficit in its capital improvement budget, New York City Councilmember Daniel Dromm threw NYCHA under the bus by cutting them out of the $92.8 billion City budget. As chair of the City Council finance committee, Dromm sees the City Budget out of committee.

It’s not too late to introduce a budget supplemental for NYCHA. The money exists to address the racial, social, and economic injustices in the City of New York, much of which are state-sponsored.

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Protest Corey Johnson to save Fulton Houses

We demand that Speaker Johnson allocate $168 million needed to save Fulton Houses.

Join us for a protest at the apartment house of New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Chelsea). To stop the plan by Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York City) to demolish two buildings and to put public housing into the hands of private landlords, all we need is $168 million, but Council Speaker Johnson refuses to save Fulton Houses from the wrecking ball.

Date : Monday, July 15, 2019

Time : 6:30 – 7:30 pm

Place : 220 West 15th Street, Manhattan

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

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Pack the Overdevelopment meeting hosted by Elected Officials at CUNY Graduate Center

Join us on Thursday to pressure elected officials to stop the demolition and RAD conversion of Fulton Houses.

Several elected officials are holding a meeting against overdevelopment on Thursday night at 6 pm at CUNY Graduate Center at 34th Street and Fifth Ave.

Help us pack the meeting, so we can ask elected officials : if you are against “overdevelopment,” then it’s time to stop the demolition and RAD conversion of NYCHA that will bring gentrification directly to public housing.

After decades of divestment by all levels of Government, NYCHA stands vulnerable to predatory actors including private landlords, luxury real estate developers, REBNY, and their lobbyists.

If you are against “overdevelopment,” then it’s time to stop the demolition and RAD conversion of NYCHA that will bring in private landlords that will turn public housing into a for-profit business. Come tell elected officials to say no to demolition and RAD at Fulton Houses and the rest of NYCHA.

DATE : Thursday, June 27, 2019

TIME :  6 pm

PLACE : CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., Manhattan

RSVP : Stop RAD before it brings Gentrification to NYCHA [Facebook]

Pack the meeting to ask Elected Officials to stop the demolition and RAD conversion of NYCHA. That’s considered “overdevelopment,” too.

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Fight For NYCHA – Weekly Update of June 3, 2019

Press Conference, NYCHA Community Meeting, CB4, and CB11 Meetings

Fulton Houses tenants held a press conference before NYCHA’s June 4 community meeting, and the press conference and community meeting were covered by the press. [PIX11 News/The New York Post/NY1]

On the same evening as the community meeting, a member of Fight For NYCHA made a presentation, seeking support for a budget/funding resolution before the Housing Committee of Manhattan Community Board 11. The Housing Committee refrained from voting on the draft resolution, but the Housing Committee voted to oppose privatisation of public housing.

The next evening, members of Fulton Houses testified before the full meeting of Manhattan Community Board 4. It was revealed that CB4 had sent a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York City) and Kathyrn Garcia, the interim CEO of the New York Housing Authority (“NYCHA”), opposing demolition at Fulton Houses.