NYCHA
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Disrespect, Disposability, Deceit: Forum on NYCHA Neglect in NYC – May 31 @2pm
LGBT Center – Manhattan – 208 W 13th St NYCHA and private partners are hellbent on pushing out residents. We need our own strategies to stop them. Privatized NYCHA developments are ramping up evictions, and residents across the city face inhumane conditions. It isn’t a question of if things can change…things MUST change. Come to…
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The Frontlines Issue #2 Feb 2025
Letter from the Editor: Privatization Is on the Doorstep at Riis Houses With an Illegitimate “Resident Vote,” NYCHA Moves on Privatization at Riis By: RANDY, DARE TO STRUGGLE When we talk to NYCHA residents about the government’s attempts to get rid of public housing, we hear a common reply: “They’ve been trying to do that…
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The Frontlines Issue #1 Jan 2025
Issue #1, Jan 2025 Letter from the Editor If you live in public housing, you’re all too familiar with inhumane conditions and ineffective repairs. NYCHA regularly ignores tickets and whenever they do “repairs,” the work is so poorly done that the problem soon returns. This neglect is deliberate—NYCHA lets repairs go unaddressed so they can…
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5 Borough Protest Against the NYCHA Nightmare
This July, Dare to Struggle and Rogue Residents are holding a protest against the NYCHA nightmare in all five boroughs.
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Police Brutality in NYC after the 2020 Rebellions: Poverty, Territory, and Containment
A Pamphlet Published February 2024 by Dare to Struggle Since the uprisings in 2020 against police brutality that shook New York City and cities around the country, police have continued their role uninterrupted as defenders of the system and the white supremacist social order, despite calls from activists to defund and abolish the police. They…
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NYCHA disrepair and privatization, “urban cleansing,” and the battle over the future of New York
Everyone living in NYCHA projects has seen the signs of public housing falling apart over the last decade: buildings with water leaks and no heat in the winter, and apartments with mold, broken pipes, holes in the walls, rat and roach infestations, and broken appliances. This is why we say that NYCHA is the biggest…
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The struggle in the Jacob Riis housing projects over the contaminated water scandal, Fall 2022
In September 2022, Dare to Struggle responded to a scandal in the Jacob Riis housing projects in the Lower East Side of Manhattan when arsenic was detected in the water at the development after people had reported getting sick and rashes from the water for weeks. We organized two protests, multiple mass meetings, and helped…
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The People’s Tribunal on the Water Crisis and Neglect of NYCHA Residents
At The People’s Tribunal on the Water Crisis and Neglect of NYCHA Residents on December 7th 2022, NYCHA and City officials were found guilty of gross criminal negligence by residents of public housing. The City hasn’t done anything in all their sham meetings and hearings, so the people have had to take it upon themselves…
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No NYCHA Privatization Bulletins
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