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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown, Member of the Public
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Sharon Brown testifies about ongoing issues in NYCHA housing, emphasizing long-standing problems with repairs, heat, and hot water. She expresses sympathy for NYCHA residents and questions why they should trust new contracts given the history of unmet obligations.
- Highlights the recurring nature of complaints about NYCHA, noting that similar issues have been reported for years
- Suggests that NYCHA may owe tenants money for enduring poor living conditions
- Calls for immediate action to help a specific tenant who expressed uncertainty about future housing
Sharon Brown
4:41:08
Hello.
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My name is Sharon Brown.
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Before I begin, remember Israel, defend Israel, release the hostages, let Yahweh's people go.
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Okay.
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For NYCHA, this is one of the other situations for a city council hearing that I keep hearing the same thing over and over about NYCHA.
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I've seen them on the news and the thing that they keep complaining about is that they haven't had repairs.
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I see them during Christmas season, they don't have heat, they don't have hot water, they don't have this, they don't have that, they don't have repairs.
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Now they're trying to make them sign certain things.
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If I was in those situations, I probably wouldn't wanna sign with them again because they haven't seem to met the their end of the bargain for just the simple repairs.
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So why would I trust them once again to go into a contract with them for something else?
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So I I feel for the people who live in NYCHA because for many, many years and probably decades I've heard things about NYCHA.
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Now I know as America we are wonderful and we do treat our people good.
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Probably most of NYCHA doesn't deal with this kind of situation.
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But for some reason this is happening in NYCHA to certain people and they keep coming back.
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Two year like I saw maybe two or three years ago someone on TV saying, oh, this has been happening for two years, that was two or three years ago and it was happening for two years or longer.
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So there needs to be something done now to, get this situation under wraps.
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There was a tenant, the first panel that came on, she said she doesn't know where she's gonna go, where is she gonna live.
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Can we find out who she is and get her some help right away to avoid her being homeless, so people can't be evicted until they have comparable accommodations and in this situation I don't know if they should be evicted at all.
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NYCHA is gonna wind up owing these tenants money for all the repairs they had to suffer not having.
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So a lot of the tenants are not sorry.
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They're not in arrears.
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They're probably owed money by NYCHA, the city, or whoever because they had to live in those kind of conditions.
Chris Banks
4:43:40
Thank you for your testimony.