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Dilan Plays Catch-22 With Intro 48!

On February 28, 2012 PTH members Kendall Jackman, Alease Lowe and Maria T. Walles attended a joint meeting of the NYC Council's Housing & Buildings and Transportation Committees in the hopes of presenting testimony about Intro 48 - proposed legislation that would empower the city to conduct an annual count of vacant buildings and lots in the five boroughs. As soon as she identified herself and began reading her statement, Jackman was interrupted by Housing Committee Chair Erik Martin Dilan who insisted that testimony unrelated to the agenda would not be permitted. The Councilman's contrived conundrum then provided him an excuse to have Jackman, Lowe and Walles escorted from the speakers table - essentially preventing them from talking about housing at a Housing Committee meeting! Had there been no prefabricated political paradox, here's what they would have said.


Instead of putting homeless people in shelters, the city should turn vacant buildings and lots into housing! Mayor Bloomberg refuses to count vacant property, so we've counted these buildings ourselves, and force the city to turn them into housing. Learn more....

Homes without people. People without homes.

At Picture the Homeless, we think there's an easy answer to both these problems. Instead of putting homeless people in shelters, the city should turn vacant buildings and lots into housing! But, the city refuses to count vacant property; Mayor Bloomberg insists it's not a problem. So we did it ourselves and in 2011 we completed a citywide count of empty lots and buildings in low-income neighborhoods throughout NYC! Now, we’re going to force the city to turn these vacant properties into affordable housing.

People are homeless because there isn't enough housing, yet the city is full of vacant buildings and lots, partially-occupied condos, and warehoused apartments in public housing! AND the city spends $750 million a year to keep homeless folks in shelter. The Housing Committee at Picture the Homeless is made up of homeless people who are ready to FIGHT BACK and demand that the city fix this problem. Our work is currently focused on our HOUSING, NOT WAREHOUSING campaign, which would address the huge quantities of abandoned buildings and create housing for homeless folks out of those properties. Support Our Housing Not Warehousing! Campaign.



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