City-Wide NYCHA Residents March Demanding Funding For NYCHA Without Privitization

Oct 18, 2019 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm EDT
Location: Holmes Towers to Gracie Mansion
Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2020

Though there's never a shortage of funding for police, prisons, the military, and tax cuts for the rich, when it comes to investing in public housing, schools, or healthcare, we're always told there's never enough. In fact, for decades, city, state, and federal governments all slashed funding for HUD and NYCHA, creating major disinvestment, slum-like conditions, and the deficit we see in NYCHA today.

Until recently, NYCHA even paid the NYPD $75 million annually out of the NYCHA budget for the NYPD to conduct vertical patrols in NYCHA developments--essentially stealing much-needed funding from NYCHA to pay for the kind of policing that led to the murder of Akai Gurley in 2014.

NYCHA is home to over half a million people and an invaluable resource for New York City, as one of the last places working class people, who are the lifeblood of this city, can still afford to live. The infill plan, and all of NYCHA 2.0, is proof that under capitalism, the government would rather give away subsidies to private landlords than to put money into NYCHA's budget.

Come march with the Justice Center En El Barrio and the Holmes-Isaacs Coalition in a city wide march to demand: funding for NYCHA without privitization!

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Justice Center En El Barrio
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City-Wide NYCHA Residents March Demanding Funding For NYCHA Without Privitization

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