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Public Housing: Tenants Voices

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

We continue our summer series on New York's public housing developments with a residents' roundtable. Reginald Bowman, Brooklyn East District chair and acting Citywide chair of the Residents Executive Board and resident of Seth Low Houses, and Corinne Haynes, resident of Queensbridge Houses and a member of the East River Development Alliance team, and Agnes Rivera, resident of Wagner Houses in Manhattan and member and leader at Community Voices Heard, a low-income activist organization, offer the tenants' views of public housing issues.


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  • [1] Elena from Queens August 21, 2007 - 11:02AM

    Slogan: "El Bronx, Even Robert Moses Couldn't Keep Us Down"
  • [2] Josh from Terrytown August 21, 2007 - 11:26AM

    I believe the distinguished guest is crazy. Statistics are not subjective; the community districts with a high proportion of public housing have high crime rates. It is not to say the residents are bad people, but it indicates the planners made a poor decision concentrating all of society’s problems on a couple of blocks. The guest are being defensive for all the wrong reasons.


  • [3] Jan August 21, 2007 - 11:27AM

    Hello

    looks like all the people invited are looong time residents of public housing. So, the question is why should people pay /tax/ for those residents who are not disabled and so active?? Why they allowed to give birth if they cant afford to have children?? Its just crime reproductive system.

    Public housing, projects are destroying the city, but noboby on the radio are willing to talk about this.. why dont you start a series about dead neighbourhoods and overall situation around this type of housing in the US and in particular in NY??

    Jan
  • [4] l from bed-stuy August 21, 2007 - 11:29AM

    I think this is a great segment.

    I would also like to respond to the caller who was calling from Lafayette Gardens. I live a few blocks away, and I have had to run from someone shooting about a round a few yards away from me. I know this does not mean that the gun violence is more there than anywhere else. But I also know that the police that are literally across the street, and b/c its "not their precinct" often dont respond or help. I have seen this personally (an officer who didn't help when me and my friends were being harrassed/spit on) as well as heard of many occasions where this happens (a dead body left for hours before it was taken care of).

    There is still such disconnect and its a shame for the people living in public housing to be so blatently disregarded as well as the community around.


  • [5] Sunphat Yau from X-nyc-LA 4a bit August 21, 2007 - 11:41AM

    Are they all section-8 subsidized, and welfare recipients?
  • [6] b from ny August 21, 2007 - 11:41AM

    i am confused - the speaker said she did not take hand outs - but she lives in public housing?

    did i not hear that right?


  • [7] Greg from Bronx August 21, 2007 - 11:49AM

    it's a shame that to be P.C. we need to listen to a segment which is basically public housing advocacy. Public housing should only be a temporary safety net. Nobody should be allowed to stay in public housing for more than 5 years in their entire lifespan. It should help people in a time of need, not be a permanent subsidy. Enough is enough, taxes are already sky high in NYC on top of the rents we have to pay to subsidize others.
  • [8] Andrea August 21, 2007 - 11:54AM

    The slogan "Yes, the Bronx" likely derives from Ogden Nash's short poem, "The Bronx, No Thonx," changed by many Bronxites to "The Bronx, Yes Thonx!" A better slogan!

    I grew up in Riverdale, and now live in Brooklyn Heights.
  • [9] Cynthia August 21, 2007 - 12:00PM

    The Bronx - isn't it time you moved up?
  • [10] Janet August 21, 2007 - 12:04PM

    The Bronx - We're Connected! (reference to being the only burough connected to mainland).

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