Cea Weaver

1) no one decided - anyone can do it if you want. I believe it’s impossible bc there isn’t much S9 housing left outside of NYC so it’s hard to build the national coalition

2) to some degree , it’s been that s9 was irrevocably set up to fail and defunded 40 years ago and we have been hanging on since. Not purporting to speak for tenants here, just my analysis that s9 is not a particularly strong socialist horizon

if “anyone can do it” yet we aren’t all doing it, then how is our organizing effective? what is our leverage if we are divided and fighting for different things? we know that public housing has been defunded and set up for fail—that’s not disputed

what is a strong socialist public housing vision then? i’m confused we look weak as hell if we’re conceding already

I don’t think we have built mvmt consensus around that fully, but my opinion: 1) publicly and robustly funded 2) democratically managed by residents 3) available and accessed widely/universally

4) is publicly owned

i’m confused bc that is the consensus

1, 2, 3, and 4–that’s the consensus. it’s sounding like there’s disagreement around how to get there (e.g the trust) and that’s where there is division. so that’s where i’m confused why leadership is just stopping organizing at the trust and saying this is it