Category: Public Housing
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…
Dissertation Overview
My dissertation research defines and employs comrade scholarship in an inquiry of the past, present and future of public housing. The goal of the research is to lift up residents’ experiences and perspectives, alongside critical scholarship, to question state-led plans and envision alternative housing futures. The research manifests as an…
Toolkit for the Campaign to Remove Russ and Kill the “Blueprint for Change” (Privatization)!
This toolkit was created as member of and with the Save Section 9 Coalition in the Spring of 2020 as we rallied folks citywide to 'Kill the Blueprint' legislation. NYCHA director Greg Russ has been making a strong attempt to pass legislation to approve his so-called “Blueprint for Change.” Resident…
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
Tenant “Informational Packet” for Justice For All Coalition
This Tenant Education Packet compiles materials created between 2018 and 2021, and was distributed at JFAC Community Meetings in 2021. Most materials were created by me; some also included the help of or were created by the Save Section 9 Coalition (SS9), the Residents to Preserve Public Housing (RPPH), SunriseNYC,…
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"…