Category: Policy Commentary
radpact.info | Evidence- and experience-based research and resources on RAD
radpact.info is an educational website created in consulation with NYCHA Neighbors Helping Neighbors to support their research and organizing efforts. This website centralizes information about the latest federal program for public housing, known as RAD (or RAD/PACT in NYC). Additionally, NHNN used the website to publicize and archive their own…
No, Our Homes Aren’t a Plaything for Speculators
No, Our Homes Aren’t a Plaything for Speculators Disproportionately impacting the low-income and poorly housed, COVID-19 was, in the words of one London politician, “a housing disease.” Historically, working-class people fought for and won public housing as a way of getting homes that wouldn’t cost their lives. Today, we need…
Resident-Led Report on RAD in the Rockaways | What is Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)?
NYCHA Neighbors Helping Neighbors (NNHN) is a group of neighbors who live in one of the 5 remaining public housing developments in Rockaway, Queens, NYC. Their goal is to uplift, encourage and inspire one another to be involved in housing and civic matters so that we may better advocate for…
Researching Residents Experiences of RAD in the Rockaways
In June 2021 I met a member-leader of the Rockaway Hub of Community Voices Heard who wanted to conduct a survey of residents at Ocean Bay Houses who had undergone RAD conversion and prepare a report for HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge. Her concern was that her and her neighbors also…
Interview with Daren Jaime on Privatization of NYCHA | Bronxnet
Host Daren Jaime sits down with Founder of Ojala Threads & NYCHA Tenant, Ramona Ferreyra, Founder of The Bronx Institute for Urban Systems, Cesar Yoc, and Justice For All Coalition member, Kristen Hackett discussing the work tenants are doing to stop the privatization of NYCHA, The Blueprint proposal, Green New…
Handout on RAD/PACT for the Justice For All Coalition and Save Section 9 Coalition
The following pamphlet is the latest version of a pamphlet outlining RAD/PACT that has been circulating citywide since October 2019. View &/or Download: RAD Pamphlet updated 6-21-21 copy
Handout and Social Media Slides on Development on Hallets Cove, Astoria, for the Justice For All Coalition
This handout was created for outreach and a community meeting at Astoria Houses in May 2021. It aims to clarify the state of development on the peninsula where Astoria Houses is located, and forthcoming plans. View &/or Download: Hallets Point View social media slides using the gallery below: [ngg src="galleries"…
Truth Commission on RAD/PACT and the Privatization of Public Housing
In Spring 2021, I worked with members of the United Front Against Displacement to organize a Truth Commission on RAD/PACT. During the event, 15 residents - half from NYC, and half from other cities including Boston, Minneapolis and the Bay Area gave testimony to the experiences living in buildings that…
Report and Social Media Slides on the Connections Between Policing and Public Housing for the Justice for All Coalition
New Report Highlights Connections Between Policing and Public Housing Concluding: Defund the NYPD and Fund NYCHA Now QUEENS, NY: Today and long-standing public housing residents are among those that are hyper-policed – in our city and across our country. This has real consequences for the health and well-being of residents…
Interview with Sonyi Lopez of BXRx on #HaltTheBlueprint Campaign
Host of Open BXRx, Sonyi Lopez, is joined by Kristen Hackett, Executive Committee Member of J4AC, joins us to discuss NYCHA’s new Blueprint for Change and why they’re calling to halt the blueprint and advocating to keep nycha public. Watch: (13) Open BXRx Tuesday | Justice 4 All Coalition: #HaltTheBlueprint…