NYCHA
Through a concerted effort, the government has defunded public housing which is causing apartments and entire buildings to go without much-needed repairs for months and years. They created the problem and are using it as an excuse to privatize. Their “solution” is to put New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) buildings under the management of private developers who have the power to evict people. Tens of thousands of people all over the country have been displaced by the privatization of public housing. Read our pamphlet, NYCHA disrepair and privatization, “urban cleansing”, and the battle over the future of New York to learn more.
NYCHA and the city have long made false promises to push for privatization. The truth is, residents at privatized developments continue to face dangerous living conditions and extreme health hazards with private companies as their new property managers. Whether it’s NYCHA or PACT, the only way out of the persistent threat of displacement is for residents to fight back in the thousands. Instead of spending years of time and energy on lawsuits against NYCHA, or relying on opportunistic politicians to care about public housing residents, what we need is collective struggle against the city and real estate companies’ insatiable greed and complete apathy towards the lives of 500,000 residents.
Contact us to get involved. Read our previous articles and pamphlets:
- The struggle in the Jacob Riis housing projects over the contaminated water scandal
- NYCHA disrepair and privatization, “urban cleansing,” and the battle over the future of New York
- Crabs in a Bucket: How the ruling class spreads chaos in public housing
- MYTHBUSTING: Misconceptions about NYCHA Repairs
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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…
Crabs in a Bucket: How the ruling class spreads chaos in public housing
Lea el texto en español más abajo. We’ll start with a story that’s familiar to anyone living in public housing in New York City. One afternoon, we were in Red Hook Houses, a NYCHA…
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Another Democratic Mayor Pushes to Privatize NYCHA
As he’s made splashy headlines for a rent freeze, and as his fans keep fawning over their new favorite politician, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has plowed ahead with long-running plans to privatize and demolish New York’s public housing.
The State of Red Hook: Privatization, Gentrification, and the Fight Going Forward
The privatization of Red Hook West Houses (RHWH) through PACT is moving full steam ahead while residents continue to speak out against it. Since September last year, NYCHA and their private partners, including BFJ Planning, have put on PACT meetings, supposedly to gather “resident input.” Since March, Dare to Struggle…
On Police Brutality, Occupy Red Hook, and How We Fight Back!
Henrietta Perkins Interview: 5/1/26 So first can you introduce yourself and tell me how long you’ve lived at Red Hook West houses?H.Perkins: Henrietta Perkins: I came back in 2000 after my mother passed. I adopted her three grandchildren and they were entitled to the apartment. That’s how I got the…
TA PRESIDENT KAREN BLONDEL IGNORES RESIDENTS’ DEMANDS AND SIDES WITH NYCHA IN PUSHING FOR PACT AT RED HOOK WEST HOUSES
Who is Karen Blondel? Karen Blondel, president of the Red Hook Houses West Tenants’ Association (RHWRA) is the latest TA president selling out her residents to push for a PACT conversion at Red Hook West Houses. Blondel also sits on the board for the NYC Preservation Trust, which she claims…
MYTHBUSTING: Misconceptions about NYCHA Repairs
NYCHA residents face an average 415-day wait time for repairs, fears of being displaced by the privatization of public housing, condescension from local nonprofits and management, and broken promises from politicians who claim to serve them. With so much stacked against them, residents are forced to come up with solutions…
EXPOSING WAVECREST MANAGEMENT
IT’S BEEN ONE MONTH SINCE THE BOSTON SECOR GAS EXPLOSION AND RESIDENTS ARE RIGHTEOUSLY ANGRYAFTER NOTHING BUT FALSE PROMISES AND HUSH MONEY FROM MANAGEMENT Immediately following the explosion on January 24th, Wavecrest posted this flyer in every building, but they were still completely unreachable. They have offered no readily available…
Zohran’s performative “Rental Rip-Off Hearings” ignore the city’s largest slumlord: NYCHA
In Zohran’s latest performance of empty promises, the administration had announced ‘Rental Ripoff Hearings’, forums in which “New Yorkers across all five boroughs are given a direct platform to share their housing experiences in one-on-one conversations with City officials and help shape housing policy”. What is only mentioned on the…
Fatal Gas explosion at Boston Secor Houses leaves one dead and more than a dozen people injured
Saturday, January 24th, at midnight, a gas line exploded in the Boston Secor Houses, a privatized NYCHA building under notorious PACT slumlord, Wavecrest Management. This explosion follows the gas explosion at the Mitchel Houses in the South Bronx in October. After the Mitchel explosion, NYCHA applauded themselves for avoiding a…
There have been 16,000 Housing code violations at PACT developments since 2021
Since 2017 NYCHA has broadcasted PACT – Permanent Affordability Commitment Together – as the all encompassing solution to repairing the buildings NYCHA let fall into disrepair. Today there are around 25,000 apartments under PACT at 564 addresses throughout the 5 boroughs. THE CITY newspaper looked into building violations between Jan…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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