Category: Activism
Opinion: A Public Letter to Public Officials on NYCHA
Image Credit: J. Murphy Caption: At the Ravenswood Houses in Queens. To the attention of all elected officials of city, state, and federal levels, and representatives of NYCHA and HUD: First, the Justice For All Coalition hopes you and your family are doing well and staying safe during these unprecedented…
OpEd titled “Sunnyside Yards Master Plan Sits on a Deck of Myths” in City Limits
Last Tuesday, the NYCEDC released their long-awaited—and dreaded—master plan for development over Sunnyside Yards. In it they praise themselves for their “robust engagement efforts” and “inclusive, community-driven process”, and for making this $14.4 billiion project about human and community needs rather than the profit desires of developers. They position the…
Handout – Resident Management Corporations for Justice For All Coalition
This handout relied on a study by HUD conducted in 1992 to create a starting place for community conversations about what resident management could look like. View &/or Download: RMC Pamphlet3
Handout – The Demand for Repairs Campaign with the Justice For All Coalition
In January 2020, the Justice For All Coalition began using JustFix.nyc's Letter of Complaint tool to support residents in escalating their demand for repairs. This tactics escalated their effort by first formalizing the ask (management offices and NYCHA received a formal letter of complaint), extending the paper trail of their…
OpEd titled “Stop Sunnyside Yards! Reparative City Building Now!” in City Limits
Image Credit: Adi Talwar Caption: A 2017 Sunnyside Yards feasibility study proposed scenarios that included up to 24,000 units of housing—including up to 7,200 affordable units—in residential buildings as high as 69 stories, surrounded by as much as 52 acres of open space. Over the last year, the quasi-private, city-affiliated…
OpEd titled “NYCHA’s NextGen Threatens More Harm than Hope” in City Limits
Image Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Caption: Mayor Bill de Blasio announces the city’s plan to renovate NYCHA apartments and preserve public housing in New York City at the NYCHA Hope Gardens Community Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday, December 12, 2018. In December 2018, the second and seemingly final installment…
Mapping Project titled “Recalibrating Queens”
This ended up being more experiment than concrete project as the longer-term vision of the project remains aspirational. But the project is evidence of some of what comrade scholarship can look like, and the project at this stage does reveal interesting and useful findings. Overview Recalibrating Queens is a digital…
Report titled “Recent Changes in LIC” for the Justice For All Coalition
Between 2000 and 2015, Long Island City experienced a 56% increase in housing units. This is faster than the average rate of growth across the city (7%) and the average for Queens County (3.3%). According to a recent study RENTCafé found that since 2010, Long Island City has seen the…