Get your NYCHA Mask today! Buy one for you, your friends and family, and neighbors! We want everyone in NYC wearing this mask this winter season. Let’s make “Funding NYCHA” the statement of the season – and beyond! Here for more! A big shoutout to Muniz Creative Studio for working Read more…
NYCHA has been moving at breakneck speed to privatize public housing. First with infill, then with RAD and PACT, and now with the Blueprint. This latest plan was announced in July, and already, hearings are planned on legislation that has been proposed by NYCHA, and NYCHA is closing its public Read more…
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Over the past few weeks, there has been a very noticeable and disturbing rise in gun violence in Queensbridge, Ravenswood, Astoria Houses, and Woodside Houses in Queens, as well as a significant uptick in gun violence throughout the city. As a response to the violence, many organizations are coming together Read more…
The NYC Dept of Sanitation is closing its garage on the corner of 21st St and 35th Ave. What do you want to see in that building? Join us for a community visions workshop on: Wednesday Sept 16th at 2pm at Ravenswood Houses’s Flagpole (near the parking lot on 36th Read more…
Background In 2013, a class-action lawsuit was brought against NYCHA on behalf of tenants with asthma who needed abatement of toxic mold in their apartments. The plaintiffs negotiated a consent decree with NYCHA which put together a program of mold abatement standards and requirements that NYCHA has to follow throughout Read more…
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Time and again, we are told by public officials that there is no public money to fix NYCHA. Private investment is the only option. But that’s a lie. We know because the City has invested time, money, and resources on project’s just next door. [gview file=”https://opencuny.org/ayonyc/files/2020/09/Wheres-The-Money.pdf”]
Below are two letters that were written to NYCHA about retaliation a tenant experienced after asking for repairs. These letters were sent over a month ago; so far no response has been received. This is unacceptable. We share them now because it is this emblematic of the invisibility and neglect Read more…
On Tuesday August 25th at 7pm, multiple grassroots groups in Queens will be co-hosting a People’s Town Hall. The focus is to stop the multiple large-scale development projects across the western region from Long Island City to Flushing. This event stems from the anti-democratic nature of how these projects have Read more…
