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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…
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…
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…
Interview with Nikki Lucas On The Fight To Save NYCHA with VOICES East New York News
Based on past segments about the Privatization of NYCHA, on VOICES of East New York with Nikki Lucas, it has become crucial that a true Coalition to #SaveNYCHA had to be formed to stop the city from handing over its housing portfolio to private developers. Kristen Hackett of the Justice…
Interview with Nikki Lucas on NYCHA being Handed to Private Bad Acting Developers on Voices of East New York News
Kristen Hackett, member of The Justice for All Coalition, and writer of the OpEd ‘Three NYCHA Plans That Will Privatize NYCHA‘ was recently the guest on VOICES of East New York with Nikki Lucas. This discussion breaks down the 3 plans that NYC has introduced as an answer to the…
OpEd titled “The City’s Three NYCHA Plans That Will Privatize Public Housing” for East New York News
Today, public housing in our city, and in the country really, is at a crossroads. Buildings are dilapidated, unsafe and unhealthy to the tune of $40 billion, meanwhile disinvestment has also led to an operating budget deficit. The City has put forth three plans they say will solve these coinciding…
Web-based Tenant Education Resource, NYCHARising.info
NYCHARising.info is an online resource that centralizes information about NYCHA’s past and present, and aims to inform the public discussion about what the future of public housing can and must be, and how we can get there. It also highlights the efforts on the ground by tenants and advocates, which…
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.…