Category: Comrade Scholarship
Handout and Social Media Slides – Where is the Money for Public Housing? for Justice For All Coalition
This handout undermines the repeated assertion by public officials that there is no money for public housing by pointing to the public money and support involved in other private development deals in the region of western Queens. View &/or Download: Wheres The Money? View social media slides in gallery below:…
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 “Envisioning A state of Care in a Time of COVID-19” on Medium
Image Credit: Posted to Instagram by Southern Poverty Law Center. Image of Dolores Huerta, Labor leader and civil rights activist stating: “Every single day we sit down to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked or harvested by a farm worker.…
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…
StoryMap of State-led Changes in Long Island City
“Change” has come to define Long Island City, and increasingly Western Queens, as new buildings – and land values – go up, and working-class tenants, small manufacturing and businesses, and independents artists are pushed out. The City and its agencies often describe these changes in relation to trends, as though…
Blog post titled “What to Consider When Planning a Digital Project” for Tagging the Tower
Image Credits: Alexas_Fotos via pixabay.com When proceeding with a digital project, it seems that a lot of emphasis is generally placed on learning the ins and outs of using the tool or method. Certainly, this is important. However, this is but one planning consideration among many. Additionally, there is much…
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…