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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Eve, Member of the Public from Penn-Wortman Houses
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Eve, a resident of Penn-Wortman Houses, provides passionate testimony criticizing NYCHA and the RAD/PACT program for lack of transparency, coercion, and poor management. She describes personal experiences of harassment, legal troubles, and deteriorating living conditions since the conversion of her development.
- Eve alleges that NYCHA and PACT partners are secretive, lie to residents, and treat them poorly
- She reports ongoing issues such as broken lobby doors, ineffective security cameras, and frequent management changes
- Eve expresses feeling stressed and afraid to speak out due to perceived retaliation and labeling by authorities
Eve
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a speech and the reason why I'm didn't prepare one is because I wanna speak freestyle because everything that NYCHA, everybody with the PAC Red program, all they do is they say what they're going to do what they're going to do is what they're not doing and what they're being very secretive.
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They keep saying about transparency, there is no transparency.
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They keep emphasizing conversion, It's not conversion, it's coercing.
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And what they're doing, they're lying about a lot of things and they're very bold and they speak to you in a indignified way where they treat you not as tenants but they treat you as if you're an inmate that you have no rights.
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Police officers was called that means because I'm expressing my rights because I refuse to sign an attendance sheet.
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By law there is no law to state that I have to sign any sheet.
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I have the right to be there because I'm a tenant whether even if you're a squatter and you attend and it's a community meeting, you're entitled to do.
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So I was pressured into signing an attendance sheet, they dictate what we're gonna do, they they only allow the board to speak, they they say things that's not correct and I blame NYCHA and NYCHA is the cause of it because they use people to make people go against.
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Since the conversion, I've been harassed, I've been followed, they tried to enter my apartment, they make things that's so uncomfortable that even family members are going against me where we're all at odds because everybody is afraid to speak up and speak out.
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Like I said before, at the end of the day they had stated that the reason that they're going private is to be able to get the funding.
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They received the funding and we're still at the same place before they got conversion and all they use is section eight this, eight that.
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Section eight has law.
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The only thing that they're trying to do is because they know that section nine is ironclad and they are purposely not fixing things to force the hand at federal at at the federal government for them to be able to get the funding.
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That's number one.
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And they're very bold and when I say they're very bold they're bold to tell the tenants because they know nothing is being recorded.
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Nothing is is is is nothing but hearsay.
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It's for us to prove how is it that in since they received the contract on December twenty ninth of twenty twenty two that up until now Penn Workman houses along with Linden houses, Frau Tino I'm saying just for Linden, how is it that management has been switched five times?
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All they keep is rolling out.
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And there are politicians, okay, that are working for L and M that violates people rights and you're a person who says that you want to be in politics where they sit and they watch.
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They watch when people go to court.
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I the last time I was able to come to speak was April of last year is because they kept me booked and busy at the courthouses because none of the judges know anything about the Pac Rad conversions because they don't know.
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The premise, alright, and it's ironclad.
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There's many things that Brian Honan and I want to say one thing with Brian Honan, alright, he saved my life and the only reason why I'm gonna say he saved my life is because I'm stressed out.
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When I say I'm stressed out to the point I can't go to no one, the police department is because they have me slated as if I'm crazy.
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I'm not crazy.
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The reason why they wanna label me as I'm crazy is because one, I keep telling them because we live in public housing or whatever it is doesn't mean that we're dumb.
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I'm not dumb.
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And it's because they feel that I am a I'm a threat.
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Like I stated, the premise of the tenant signing the lease was for able to get the funding.
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They got it.
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They still not doing anything.
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They didn't change the pipes.
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Right now, I bought proof of everything that they doing.
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They keeping things very secret very quietly.
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At the end of the day there is no way that a person has to go putting rises where it's not supposed to be.
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Things I want proof like I'm done.
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When I say Brian Honan saved my life, when I say he saved my life, it's because they stressed me out so much that I called at 03:00 in the morning.
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I said if he didn't answer that I didn't know what I was gonna do.
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But you know what?
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But he answered.
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So at the end of the day, like I said, my great nephew is the one who keep giving me courage, a seven year old, that keep giving me courage for me to keep going is because you know why?
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They are our future.
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People are afraid to speak out is because they are being harassed.
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Shootings, all in, they put cameras.
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It's not working.
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Why?
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Why?
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It makes no sense.
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They took NYCHA cameras out.
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Why?
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NYPD.
Chris Banks
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Alright.
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You you got thirty seconds to wrap it up, Eve.
Eve
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No.
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And the premise for for for six to eight weeks now.
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Okay?
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The front door in my lobby has been broke since a week after Christmas.
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It's still broke now.
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And the reason being that it's not fixed is because, right, they didn't get insurance warranty because it's vandalism.
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Does that make sense?
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They said this at a meeting.
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Mister Butler and miss it makes no sense.
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So I was sent and there was a shooting.
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An attempt at a lot of things.
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They just want to keep everything secret.
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Like the young person said, this young lady I can't remember if she said right, but at the end of the day the tenant association president they're attended just like us they supposed to keep us informed they don't keep us informed.
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Had it not be for me to go to other meetings and I'm saying going across the tristate for me to be able to know about certain things here, I would not know about it.
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I'm tired.
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At the end of the day, they can evict me.
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They can evict me, but they still gonna have to explain as to the reason why I am being evicted.
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And people Okay?
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A lot of people don't like Trump, but he's going to he he's he's bringing out the fraud, and it's right.
Chris Banks
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Okay.
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And I'm a Democrat.
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Alright, Eve.
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We gotta wrap this up.
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Thank you for your testimony.
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We're gonna
Eve
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Proof it.
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I'm gonna submit it.
Chris Banks
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Thank you.
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This
Eve
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is ridiculous.
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This isn't at my door.