| As HUD
Takes $50M
From NYCHA
Inner City
Press Asks Rep
Goldman If
Lawsuit Needed
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 17 – NYC's
crumbling
public housing
authority,
NYCHA,
negotiates
savings from
utility
companies but
then HUD in
Washington
takes half of
it.
On August 17
HUD Secretary
Marcia Fudge,
who has
previously
been asked
about the
issue, got a
letter from
elected
officials
including Rep.
Dan Goldman
(NY-10),
Senator Chuck
Schumer, AOC
and
others.
Inner
City Press
went to Rep
Goldman's
press
conference in
front of 200
Madison Street
and asked what
Secretary
Fudge's
response has
been, and if
there might be
a lawsuit
under 42 USC
1437g.
Rep
Goldman
replied that
he has a good
working
relationship
with Secretary
Fudge, for
example on 5
World Trade,
and that the
letter had
just been
sent. (There
appears to
have been an
earlier
inquiry too,
that we're
tracking
down).
Then
Danette Chavis
of the
LaGuardia
Houses noted
that while
tenants have
to comply with
HUD's
regulations,
HUD is not
complying with
the law. Video
here.
We'll
have more on
this - the
answers were
appreciated,
while in
midtown
Manhattan the
United Nations
continues to ban
Inner City
Press in
contravention
of the First
Amendment and
Article 19, no
response to
this.
Also speaking
were State
Senator Brian
Kavanagh,
Assemblymember
Grace Lee and
Councilmembers
Carlina Rivera
and
Christopher
Marte.
The
letter is
signed by
Senator
Kirsten
Gillibrand
(D-NY), House
Minority
Leader Hakeem
Jeffries
(NY-08), and
Representatives
Nydia
Velázquez
(NY-07),
Jerrold Nadler
(NY-12),
Gregory Meeks
(NY-05),
Yvette Clarke
(NY-09), Grace
Meng (NY-06),
Adriano
Espaillat
(NY-13),
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez
(NY-14),
Ritchie Torres
(NY-15), and
Jamaal Bowman
(NY-16).
More
including
analysis on
Substack here
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