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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Tanesha Grant, Executive Director of Parents Supporting Parents NY, on NYCHA Budget and Management
3:21:15
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Tanesha Grant, representing Parents Supporting Parents NY, testified about the need for increased funding for NYCHA and expressed opposition to the RAD/PACT program. She criticized NYCHA's management and called for maintaining Section 9 public housing.
- Demanded $3.4 billion in annual capital funds and $2.9 billion in operation funds for NYCHA
- Expressed dissatisfaction with NYCHA leadership's responses during the hearing
- Called for the entire City Council to support the Public Housing Committee in fully funding public housing
Tanesha Grant
3:21:15
Thank you, chair.
3:21:17
Thanks for this very important meeting on public housing.
3:21:21
My name is Tanisha Grant.
3:21:23
I am the executive director of Parent Support and Parents New York at Moms United for Black Lives New York City.
3:21:30
I also, in my personal capacity, I am the second vice chair of my community board, community board twelve in Manhattan, but I am here as the executive director of parent support and parents New York.
3:21:42
We have a lot of parents chair, that live, in public housing, generations of black people and brown people who have brought up their families and, you know, others in public housing.
3:21:56
This is about upkeep and budget.
3:22:00
So, we are partners of Residence to Preserve Public Housing, and we stand with them on their demands.
3:22:08
We need $3,400,000,000 in capital funds in NYCHA budget every year.
3:22:14
We need 2,900,000,000.0 in operation funds for, this fiscal year and fiscal years going forward.
3:22:21
This is about mismanagement.
3:22:23
I am truly, truly disturbed at how, these people at the top of NYCHA came here today and were so disrespectful, to you and to the committee and to our residents in public housing.
3:22:36
This is about people's homes.
3:22:38
Public housing has been mismanaged for generations.
3:22:42
There is no one other to blame except the people who lead on, NYCHA upkeep and on NYCHA management.
3:22:51
We do not want RAD, and we do not want PAC.
3:22:54
We want to keep our section nine.
3:22:57
It is the only deeply affordable housing that low income people and working class people and working poor people have.
3:23:06
We want you to stand on this chair.
3:23:08
We really appreciate your efforts, but we must do more.
3:23:12
We would like to see the whole city council get behind the public housing committee.
UNKNOWN
3:23:17
Thank you.
Chris Banks
3:23:18
And make sure that
Tanesha Grant
3:23:21
funded public housing.
3:23:22
Thank you.