At a community meeting in Red Hook Wednesday night, residents of the Red Hook Houses called for demonstrations, a rent strike, and a lawsuit against their landlord, New York City Housing Authority, because they have had no heat, hot water or electricity for more than two weeks, DNAinfo reported. The meeting, which took place at P.S. 27, was attended by about 150 people, including artists, business owners, Occupy Sandy members, Community Board 6 members, and church leaders. As of yesterday morning, 20 of 32 Red Hook Houses buildings still did not have heat or hot water, according to NYCHA. The agency did not perform a door-to-door wellness check on the project until 15 days after the hurricane. Red Hook resident and Deputy Attorney-in-Charge for Legal Aid’s criminal practice Tina Luongo said Legal Aid is exploring the possibility of a lawsuit against NYCHA.
Red Hook Residents Call for Marches, Strikes, Lawsuits Against NYCHA [DNAinfo]
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  1. “I believe there are also tax credits and incentives for Section 8 housing, affordable housing credits…”

    WRONG.

    you do this pretty often, heather. stick to subjects that you know and stop making stuff up.

  2. Montrose, nice to read your post. I’ve suspected that since you moved to Troy you’d given up on Brownstoner — one of the reasons I post much less these days — and only recycle old Buildings of the Day.

    You’re alive!

    NOP

  3. and since you know people in the rockaways. i assume they were flooded, correct? how are they gutting their house and doing mold remediation without power? rockaway residents are returning home almost everyday to do what they can while it is light out, then spend two hours in traffic each night because without electricity everyone is leaving the peninsula about the same time getting to brooklyn. and still, you don’t hear them making noise.

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