A tenant-led organization in NYC fighting to preserve Section 9 public housing in the US, the only deeply affordable housing option that remains.

Joined February 2023
Really upsetting to see organizations that bill themselves as pro-working class encouraging middle & low income ppl to vote yes in favor of ending public input on the issues NYers care about most. I even saw a union saying to vote yes meanwhile if anyone took away their rights to collective bargaining all hell would rightfully break loose. The public must maintain its right to hearings
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The story is that the federal program to preserve public housing moves it into Section 8 and often places it under management of corporate landlords, with bad oversight and outcomes for tenants. Maybe you think that's worth the risk, but it’s not clearly "public housing."
Replying to @newrepublic
Is this DEK meant to deliberately misstate what's going on or did the person who wrote it not understand the story?
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NEW: DSA's National Political Committee passed two resolutions tonight regarding Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, setting up processes to potentially force DSA's Los Angeles chapter to rescind its endorsement of her campaign and/or expel her from DSA. Here are copies of the 2 resolutions that passed: Rescinding endorsement: docs.google.com/document/d/1… Expulsion: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Replying to @SpeakerMenin
The Mayor seems to be pushing the 5 ballot measures that increase his power and takes from yours and from CBs and just normal people. He's spending govt $ on TV ads, the NYC govt website, link kiosks, and text messages. How is this allowed? BTW, please vote Hell, NO on all 5!
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The Mayor seems to be pushing the 5 ballot measures that increase his power and takes from yours and from CBs and just normal people. He's spending govt $ on TV ads, the NYC govt website, link kiosks, and text messages. How is this allowed? BTW, please vote Hell, NO on all 5!
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And narrowly, the “DSA-right” keeps their 60% supermajority in NYC! SMC: 35% (+3% from 2024) [right] W2W: 30% (+7%) [left] GW: 26% (-) [right] B&R: 3% (-2) [center]
NYC-DSA convention delegate results: @DSASocMaj - 153 (35%) @w2wdsa - 129 (30%) @GroundworkDSA - 114 (26%) @breadrosesDSA - 12 (3%) Independent - 28 (6%)
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John Leguizamo @JohnLeguizamo Voted “hell no” on all the propositions except last one! It’s a developer’s dream to not be regulated so they can destroy the beauty and safety of our beloved city! WE SAY VOTE NO ON ALL 5
Voted early! And in person! All the staff was friendly and helpful! Voted “hell no” on all the propositions except last one! It’s a developer’s dream to not be regulated so they can destroy the beauty and safety of our beloved city!
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Yesterday before the @nycDSA deadline I rejoined for $5 so I could vote 4 delegates supporting #publichousing 2 counter Open NY and neoliberals hiding within their ranks. Worth every 💵 #savesection9
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A tenacious group of tenants is fighting a teardown plan in one of Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods that could spell the end of public housing as we know it? I wrote for @newrepublic about their struggle and the fate of government-run homes in the US.
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in 2019, a group of Fulton Houses residents led by @jackieblue2363 went door-to-door at Fulton Houses and collected 635 signatures out of 944 families, for a petition that was against the demolition & privatization. That’s 67%, 2/3rds of NYCHA Fulton heads of households. #DSA
Also — in 2019, a group of Fulton Houses residents led by Jackie Lara @jackieblue2363 went door-to-door at Fulton Houses and collected 635 signatures out of 944 families, for a petition that was against the demolition & privatization. That’s 67%, 2/3rds of Fulton Houses’ heads of households. The petition was overseen by veteran civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel. A lot of folks weren’t around then but tenants at Fulton have documented they did not want demolition or privatization as early as 2019 and folks at @ManhattanBoard4 that were part of the Chelsea Working Group can attest to this as well. Please read more about the petition and the tenants who organized it here: liberationnews.org/nyc-polit… @infopobn @digifigs_1 @fuelgrannie @mfriedrichnyc @katewillett @flushingtenant #nycha
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nothing is true about building affordable housing,+ there is no iron clad paperwork on what is to be built. and go and check out steve ross and what he did with hudson yards...how he promise rentals for $858 a month but what happened when he built businessinsider.com/hudson-y…
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how much will it cost NYC to demo these buildings... between $1.2 million and $1.7 billion. this public land is being handed over to MAGA billionaire steve ross to build luxury condos... and section 8 or eRADication is not protected section 9 housing savesection9.org/about
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save nycha public housing from #MAGA billionaire steve ross real estate developer, billionaire, and sports team owner with a net worth listed around $17 billion/ranked #59 on Forbes. the politicians like bloomberg already gave Ross' hudson yard $7.1 billion in tax breaks #DSA
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we have seen this all B4 Atlantic Yards BK Cabrini-Green/Robert Taylor Techwood Desire/ St. Thomas HOPE VI program or Steve Ross Hudson Yard where are the affordable housing he promised? slumlords promise but never deliver what mamdani is doing in Chelsea is ethnic cleansing
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this was written by eric adams and his cronies go and study Atlantic yard in BK see how they promised a black community the world and in the end 2 companies went bankrupt and no community benefits were delivered. they got tax subsidized stadium and luxury offices and condos
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sure they will be affordable..for RICH FOLKS BTW im selling central park lmao underdevloper do not build low income housing. those luxury condos will be for rich folks. go and study MAGA steve ross track record. he will be given the public land #DSA themidtowngazette.com/2024/1…
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this is billionaire steve ross' $7.1 billion tax break hudson yards.. this is his track records. Housing lottery opens for 177 new apartments in Hudson Yards billionaires dont want poor blks/latinos in their buildings. but what do the gentrifiers know brickunderground.com/rent/ho…
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Housing lottery opens for 114 rent-stabilized apartments in Hudson Yards NYers who earn $59,280 to $209,625 are eligible to apply EMT$39K Para$32K HHA $35K Retail$35K In New York City, approximately 39% of households earn under $59K per year SAVE NYCHA brickunderground.com/rent/ho…
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