Over a dozen seniors lined up last week outside to speak with a reporter. One senior citizen had to go rest upstairs after becoming overcome by stress.
Last week, the New York City Housing Authority began delivering notices to residents of the senior building at the Chelsea Houses public housing development known as the the Chelsea Addition. The notices informed tenants that they had 90 days to agree to forced relocations do to the looming demolition of the Chelsea Addition. Residents of a public housing building on 19th Street in nearby Fulton Houses received similar notices on or about the same day.
A narrated video of part of the gathering was shared on Facebook Live and was reshared on the X social media microblogging site.
The reporter moved a report, published by Gothamist, in which it was confirmed that, “Residents of a senior housing complex in Chelsea are receiving vacate orders as the New York City Housing Authority moves forward with its plan to replace and modernize a sprawling public apartment complex with both new public housing and market-rate units.”
The Democrats in the District are supporting the upward transfer of wealth from a cash-strapped NYCHA to a MAGA billionaire.
We call the American style of Government a Duopoly, because both corporate political parties agree on major issues. For example, Democrats support the wholesale end of Section 9 public housing by transferring all public housing residents to Section 8 rental assistance vouchers at the same time when President Donald J. Trump, Sr. (R) has advocated for ending Section 8 rental assistance vouchers as part of his administration’s implementation of Project 2025, the MAGA blueprint for shredding the social compact.
Although New York Democrats claim to oppose Trump’s MAGA White Nationalist agenda, in actuality, Manhattan Democrats actually support Project 2025 given the RAD/PACT demolition facing NYCHA in Chelsea. Democrats, protected by LGBTQ progressive acctivist Allen Roskoff, for example, take it a step further by supporting the upward transfer of wealth to MAGA billionaire Stephen Ross, the owner of The Related Companies, which stands to profit from the demolition and displacement of public housing residents in Chelsea.
Thus far, the only NYCHA preservation group, which has filed a lawsuit to review the RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea, has been Fight For NYCHA.
Fight For NYCHA have helped organise several news reports about the looming evictions. Our Article 78 Petition is now fully-briefed and is pending before Manhattan State Supreme Court. We’ve also been asking other groups to help residents in the Chelsea Addition and the 19th Street building to begin proceedings in Housing Court. Please donate what you can to our Go Fund Me to cover our expenses.