I represent 25 NYCHA developments, more than any DSA elected official. If you want to understand why many of my constituents—who’ve waited all their lives for NYCHA to make repairs—don’t agree with you, you should try talking to them, or invite us next time you have a teach-in.https://twitter.com/juliacarmel__/status/1463986288449703938 …
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TLDR: I don’t think it’s fair to say shorthand Blueprint = privatization - I think it’s more complicated than that!
Oh! Last thing I will say! The trust legislation does not convert any units at all. It’s not the same as RAD, which converts units. It creates a new agency that NYCHA can use *if it needs to*, at resident request, for up to 25,000 units.
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And the board of the trust (the new agency that could theoretically be created) expands resident control over NYCHA from where it is currently. So there are a lot of resident-control oriented protections built in - and that’s a testament to the power of NYCHA tenants organizing
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