Cea Weaver

Imo the trust reduces the risk of privatization and actually enhances resident governance

long term?

Yeah even long term!

how so?

S9 is v vulnerable & depends on tenants having political power at the federal level which is impossible to do from 1 state; all s9 governance rights are carried over plus additional board representation; the ability to opt-out of *any* conversion incld RAD which doesn’t exist now

got it. i have more trust specific questions that cld be off twit but mainly 1) who decided the impossibility of nationwide S9 organizing at federal level and why 2) who is deciding that this can’t be done and why 3) who is deciding organizing timelines & setting expectations

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