Tuesday, October 23, 2007
8:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Theresa Lang Community & Student Center
55 West 13th Street (between 5th and 6th avenues), 2nd floor
 The New York City Housing Authority is in dire financial straits. Although the state recently increased its rent subsidy, it will barely make a dent in the $225 million annual shortfall. And renewed federal investment is nowhere on the horizon.
The Center for New York City Affairs convened a roundtable discussion with key stakeholders to determine what can be done to rescue public housing, the city’s primary source of affordable housing—and home to more than 400,000 New Yorkers.
Read a summary and view photos of this event
Read the transcript
SPEAKERS:
Aixa Alemán-Díaz, Senior Legislative Assistant, Office of Congress Member Nydia
M. Velázquez
Douglas Apple, General Manager, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Assistant Professor of History and Co-Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies, New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury, and Author, Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
Gregory Floyd, President, Teamsters Union Local 237
Hon. Rosie Mendez, New York City Council Member
Sean E. Moss, Director, NY/NJ Regional Office, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Agnes Rivera, Resident, Wagner Houses, and Leader, Community Voices Heard
Joseph Shuldiner, Executive Director, City of Yonkers Municipal Housing Authority; former General Manager, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA); and former Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Julia Vitullo-Martin, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, and Director, Center for Rethinking Development
Hon. Keith Wright, New York State Assembly Member
MODERATOR: Errol Louis, Columnist and Editorial Board Member, New York Daily News
This forum was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Milano Foundation and the Sirus Fund.
|
