TESTIMONY
Maria Forbes, Resident Council President, on Accountability and Mismanagement within Housing Authorities
2:54:45
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160 sec
Maria Forbes provides a powerful testimony on the urgent need for accountability and thorough investigation into the mismanagement within housing authorities.
- Forbes discusses systemic issues in housing management, including favoritism towards bad employees by unions.
- She advocates for investigations from the federal level down to city council to address these issues.
- Forbes recounts her own experiences and perspectives from participating in the United Nations as a representation of public housing residents.
- She underscores the necessity of investigations into housing management practices to ensure the replacement of bad employees with good ones, aiming to improve overall housing conditions.
Maria Forbes
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Am I unmuted, sir?
UNKNOWN
2:54:47
Yes.
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We can hear you.
Maria Forbes
2:54:52
I wanna say that
UNKNOWN
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I'm a white soldier.
Maria Forbes
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If you can listen to this.
Chris Banks
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The makers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs sleep.
Maria Forbes
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Just like Just let me use that as an example because I wanna say that The smokescreen, sir.
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I'm gonna meet him right now.
2:55:12
Wow.
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The smokescreen of all it is stealing.
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Is a reasonable doubt.
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The reasonable doubt is that the Lord Apartment tell you what they can do to the employees to what they can't do.
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For somebody, the unions are rewarding the bad employees, and we are letting go the good employees.
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People have more state jobs as a result of what we say is justifiable with nitrogen, the unions to whoever.
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They tell us I'm not 64 regs govern us.
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They don't govern us because they don't govern you and they don't govern the housing authority.
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The 9 64 breaks.
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We sit at the table.
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We have a and I I could take you to a bigger level because I sit at the United Nations as the only president a public housing.
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And I get over there and I see the US delegation tell me, oh, we're gonna call you when we get back to the United States.
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To then they even said, oh, you know who Allega is?
2:56:12
Of course, I know who Allega is.
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She sat in the same seat that the chairman is sitting today to Richie Torres sat in that seat.
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That I'm gonna tell you that this needs to be the investigation is bigger than this.
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And even if the mayor stops, allowing the unions to get away with the unions have gotten away with.
2:56:31
The investigation right now need to be launched into the caretakers like day out every other day.
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But nobody won't launch.
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We can't do this.
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Our hands is tied.
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I spoke to the Lord Department yesterday.
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I spoke to Dan Green yesterday.
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I spoke to the superintendent manager and blah blah blah blah blah to all of this.
Chris Banks
2:56:50
You can wrap up your statement.
Maria Forbes
2:56:54
Where does someone be held accountable?
2:56:59
So we gotta get rid of the bed to put in the good but something has to be done between all all of this from the federal level then out to the city to to city council to everybody because until investigations start from the bottom and work their way to the top or vice versa down, We are in trouble.
2:57:18
We will continue to arrest some more people, and it's a shame that I've seen this happen to us.
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It's a shame.