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Cea Weaver

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Brooklyn, NYhousingjusticeforall.orgJoined February 2015

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Wrote abt my favorite thing in The Hill ⤵️⤵️

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Housing Justice For All

New York’s rent laws protect tenants from excessive rent hikes and stabilize whole communities. Rather than back away, policy makers should expand them. google.com/amp/s/thehill.

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30% became the standard as a cost saving measure in 1981; TODAY people are paying up to 35% in HPD financed housing and even more in LIHTC financed properties across the country. Subsiding people to live in housing poverty. shelterforce.org/2017/04/25/mat

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30% is way too much of your income to pay in rent! ICYMI this series from

in 2017 -- only increasingly more relevant as the costs of other household goods (food! education! healthcare!) increases and wages stay stagnant.

shelterforce.org

How Should We Measure Housing Affordability?

The simplicity of the 30 percent standard is also its downfall. We don’t expect people of differing incomes to pay the same percent in taxes, so why then ...

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Jabari Brisport

@JabariBrisport

"Skinner out of touch" meme

Did I nominate a conservative judge to lead NY's highest court?

No, it's 10 Senators, several labor unions, and countless advocacy groups who are wrong

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Tanvier Peart (she/her)

We got families stranded in their cars and emergency responders unable to make it two miles in less than a few hours—if at all. Also seeing parents with *babies on ventilators* with no power. This is no joking matter. Unless you're helping share info and/resources, 🤐

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Tanvier Peart (she/her)

The Buffalo blizzard—which really impacts WNY and not just the city—is no joking matter. Now is not the time to ask "Why would you live there?" or any other pointless question for that matter. This is one of the poorest regions in the country. People will die.

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Senator Andrew Gounardes

My statement on Governor Hochul's veto of my Freelance Isn't Free Bill:

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Center for Community Alternatives

Thank you to labor for coming out in force against

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Housing Justice For All

Students in our public schools can’t learn because evils of the housing market are ripping them from their communities. Our neighbors need eviction protections, permanently affordable rents, and housing that is protected from the private market. Join us: Hj4a.org/TakeAction

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Housing Justice For All

In coming years, NY's highest court will hear cases that will either uphold tenants' rights, or cement landlord's power to evict at-will. We urge the Senate to stand with tenants and REJECT

@GovKathyHochul

's dangerous nomination. Full statement: housingjusticeforall.org/statement-hous 2/2

housingjusticeforall.org

STATEMENT: Housing Justice for All Urges Senate to Reject LaSalle Nomination - Housing Justice for...

Across New York State eviction filings are surging. Rental assistance is running dry and families are facing the violence of being forced from their homes at staggering rates. Housing in stability is...

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Housing Justice For All

The root cause of the housing crisis is the severe power imbalance between tenants and landlords -- an imbalance of power that is felt most acutely in New York State’s broken court system. 1/2 #NoOnLaSalle

Sen. Mike Gianaris and 6 others

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“Landlords commit rent fraud because they have operated with impunity, because they know that nobody in State or City government is watching,” read a statement from

, “and enforcement of the law falls entirely on tenants’ shoulders.”

Apartments Vanish From New York’s Rent Regulation System and Questions Linger About How

Three years after a 2019 overhaul was supposed to stop landlords from removing most apartments from rent stabilization, thousands are left unaccounted for.

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Extraordinarily rare to see a large number of Democrats come out against a judicial nomination like this for a Democratic governor. LaSalle’s nomination has drawn opposition from labor, which has a lot of influence in Albany

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Michelle Hinchey

@MichelleHinchey

While I expressed my support for the many other accomplished & experienced Chief Judge candidates, I had also made it clear that I cannot support a nominee who has delivered anti-choice, anti-union rulings. If Hon. LaSalle’s nomination comes to the floor, I will vote no. (2/3)

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Thank you to

@MichelleHinchey

for courageously leading on this terrible nomination.

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Michelle Hinchey

@MichelleHinchey

While I expressed my support for the many other accomplished & experienced Chief Judge candidates, I had also made it clear that I cannot support a nominee who has delivered anti-choice, anti-union rulings. If Hon. LaSalle’s nomination comes to the floor, I will vote no. (2/3)

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Thank you to

for courageously leading on this terrible nomination.

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NYS Senator Samra Brouk

My statement on today’s Chief Judge nomination:

Senator Samra Brouk: “Today, conservative Judge Hector LaSalle was nominated by Governor Hochul to be the next chief judge of New York’s highest court. Judge LaSalle’s anti-woman, anti-worker, and anti-family judicial record makes him the wrong choice to hold this office and poses a direct threat to the abortion and labor protections we've fought so hard for in our state. For these reasons, I urge my Senate colleagues to vote no on this appointment.”

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Center for Community Alternatives

Just hours after

@GovKathyHochul

announced her Chief Judge nomination, many senators have already come out in public opposition. See which senators have stood up for New Yorkers already: 👇

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Judge LaSalle is the wrong choice to lead New York's judicial branch. At a time when courts across the country are turning rightward, our great state must chart a different course.

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@alexaforcouncil

Private landlords got a bailout. NYCHA never saw a cent. These are the unintended but predictable consequences of putting subsidized housing last in line for ERAP funds. Our state government should fix it and fund NYCHA.

NYCHA Faces Financial Crisis as Nearly Half of Tenants Are Late on Rent, With Many Awaiting Missing...

The drop in rental income appears to imperil NYCHA’s ability to perform repairs to aging properties as required by a recent agreement with the feds.

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A little over six years ago, I finally became a DSA member, thanks to organizers I met through the Brooklyn

reading group.

has been a political home for me ever since, putting my hope for a democratic socialist future into action. Join us!

Join DSA. Become a member today.

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Ben Carlos Thypin

Stories like this, where a family with a three week old newborn is being forced to move on New Year’s Eve bc their landlord suddenly decided to not renew their lease, are why I am convinced that Good Cause Eviction is coming to the state of New York. tiktok.com/t/ZTRqJVRPA/

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One big problem w/arguing that “homeownership is a bad system” (it is) is the counterfactual (which is mostly renting) is usually ignored. For most tenants in most US places, renting is often worse. Tenants have few rights, little stability, & no way to control housing costs. 1/N

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4/5 Reality is homeownership has many advantages renting doesn’t in most of US, mostly about stability. Given huge disadvantages facing many tenants in most places, giving more Black families access to that stability seems a good thing, while working to make renting more fair.

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3/N It’s fine to say things like “well then adopt rent control, get just cause eviction & mandate availability of longer leases.” Those things should happen. But those are long-term goals in many places in country where enacting even minimal new tenant protections are daunting.

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“If we are interested in helping low- and middle-income people live well, we need to fix renting….Financial security, reliable and reasonable housing payments, and freedom from exploitation should not be the domain of homeowners.”

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@JerusalemDemsas

There is so much more in the article and so many more people I wish I could have cited who have articulated their concerns with homeownership for years. Full article below! theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar

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10) If you want home values to go up that means you don't want homes to be affordable. Trying to do both is what gets us an absurd policy landscape where on the one hand we do all we can to prop up home values and on the other we subsidize demand driving up prices even more.

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Assembly Member Brian Cunningham

@NYAMCunningham

Join us for Our Yiddish NY Rent Strike Discussion on December 21, 2022, at 6:00 pm. For any extra information or questions, you can call or email Raul Rothblatt at 718-771-3105 or rothblattr@nycassembly.gov.

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The Legal Aid Society

"We need protections from price gouging and deep investments in making housing affordable. I don’t think you can solve the state’s housing problems without regulations and money and those are the two things Hochul doesn’t want to touch," -

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NY advocates, lawmakers renew push for ‘good cause’ eviction and other tenant-friendly bills as...

Housing rights groups are petitioning the governor to couple her call for building more units with a slate of bills that would help keep tenants in their apartments amid rising rents and provide...

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So... Eric Adams is carrying out the neoliberal dream by fully undercutting all public services in order to create a crisis "only the private sector" can solve. I've seen enough, it will be very hard to convince me otherwise.

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Gale Brewer announces her opposition to the city's Medicare Advantage switch, as currently planned. I believe she's the first councilmember to do so:

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Retired city workers were promised Senior Care, and a promise is a promise. Read my full statement on #MedicareAdvantage @NycRetirees #nycretirees

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One more reason @kathyhochul should fire @JayJacobs28: a real State Dem Party would invest in basic oppo research. This should've come out 3 months ago. nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyr

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Housing Justice For All

Here with Michelle from

today phone banking to build support for good cause in 2023. Join Michelle, union workers, and people across the state who are rising up for housing justice. hj4a.org/TakeAction

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The Legal Aid Society

"A real housing plan that works for all New Yorkers would include Good Cause protections from eviction, rental assistance for homeless New Yorkers, and meaningful investments in social housing," -

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Questions emerge about viability of ambitious NYC economy plan rolled out by Gov. Hochul, Mayor...

The two top elected officials unveiled an ambitious plan this past week for how to supercharge New York City’s economy — but members of the panel that produced the blueprint is skeptical of the...

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@PerkinsActivist

Slumlords have the same agendas all over. Purchase housing properties, collect rent thru government funding, become billionaires over it, raise rent, have families live in deplorable conditions, harass tenants and hide their identities under LLCs. News reporters put it out!!

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New York Communities for Change

🎶 Oh the rent is too DAMN high🎶 We’re following Winsome and Leroy’s lead and kicking off the #OurHomesOurPower campaign launch with JOY. We need policies that keep families in their homes and put our communities first and we know We CAN WIN.

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LIHTC sucks cuz it’s potentially the most obtuse way to administer subsidy to help people afford housing

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katelin (she/they)

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the housing program we're not shitting on enough is absolutely LIHTC. vouchers are bad, but at least vouchers are targeted at your own income, whereas affordable LIHTC units are affordable at 30% of either 50 or 60 percent of AMI

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@Sumathy_Kumar_

The #OurHomesOurPower platform is a pathway to a new system. Join us and let’s shift the balance of power away from landlords, towards the people.

housingjusticeforall.org

Our Homes, Our Power | Housing Justice for All

Fighting for housing as a human right

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@Sumathy_Kumar_

🧵Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams have a deep, vested interest in convincing us that our housing system should remain fundamentally unchanged.

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