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Tuesday July 27, 2010

Arizona. 1070. You.

National - In the last 5 years, over 6,000 immigration related bills have been proposed in the State Legislature - that's more than one a day per session. Rather than finding solutions to problems of unemployment, foreclosures, and in the educational system, it seems as though the state capital has become a legislative laboratory to make the lives of migrants miserable. It has become the status quo to blame immigrants for virtually every problem the state faces. In southern Arizona, the Border Patrol's presence has become the norm, as has the death toll of people found in the desert. And then we have Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, building upon his chain gangs and tent cities, parading around the city conducting raids and sweeps. He has already stated, he's willing to build tent cities all the way to the border to make room for migrants.Read More >

Monday July 26, 2010

Join The Fight Against SB 1070

National - This week in Phoenix a federal judge is hearing arguments from immigrant and civil rights groups, the Department of Justice and the State of Arizona over whether or not SB 1070 should be implemented on July 29. SB 1070 makes it a state crime to be undocumented and authorizes law enforcement to pull over and question any person they have a "reasonable suspicion" to believe doesn't have papers.Read More >

Tuesday July 06, 2010

Settlement Reached in Case Against Sewage Odors in South Bronx

New York City - A major environmental justice case in the South Bronx was settled today as New York City agreed to resolve long-standing community concerns regarding odors and emissions from sewage facilities in the Hunts Point neighborhood.Read More >

Tuesday July 06, 2010

'F' por inspección de vivienda de alquiler

Los Angeles - El Departamento de Vivienda y particularmente su Divisin de Inspecciones de Edificios le han fallado a miles de residentes de viviendas de alquiler en Los Angeles. Se trata de un inframundo de paredes descascaradas, goteras interminables, ratas, cucarachas y otras plagas inmundas impropias de una urbe del primer mundo que los inspectores parecen no ver o que por una serie de deficiencias del código de vivienda son incapaces de erradicar.Read More >

Tuesday May 18, 2010

Bill Quigley and Tony Romano: We Call These Projects Our Home

National - Public housing in this country is rapidly becoming endangered, and with it, the lives of low-income people. Public housing provides a safety net for the working poor and those on a fixed income, which is critical in today's housing market considering that as of 2008, there was no county in the U.S. where an individual working 40 hours a week at minimum wage could afford a one-bedroom apartment at fair market rent.Read More >

Tuesday May 18, 2010

Residents and Tenants Call for Expansion and Maintenance of Public Housing

National - As Congress is poised to consider new legislation to drastically reform public housing, residents and advocates released a new report calling for Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to strengthen and expand public housing.Read More >

Tuesday May 11, 2010

Low-Income NY'ers & Elected Officials Call on City to Convert Condos in Low-Income Areas into Affordable Housing

New York City - Harlem - Six primarily low-income neighborhoods across the city are home to 4,092 empty housing units, on the market for an average of nearly $2 million, as New York City continues to face record homelessness and increasingly unavailable low-income housing, according to new data released today by Right to the City-NYC (RTTC-NYC). The report, People without Homes, & Homes without People, follows RTTC-NYC's fall count of vacant condos in these six neighborhoods.Read More >

Monday May 10, 2010

For Drug Users, Coalition Serves as Voice in Albany

New York City - In a borrowed room in Chelsea on a recent Monday night, 13 people sat under fluorescent lights discussing the time-honored art of lobbying and the cold calculus of political persuasion. And for this unusual organization, the typical difficulty of being heard among the vast jumble of special interests clamoring for attention in Albany is complicated by the fact that it represents drug users, past and present.Read More >

Thursday March 04, 2010

Democracy Begins at Home: Public Housing Tenants Without a Voice

New York City - Walk through a typical New York City public housing complex, and you are not likely to see many signs of civic life among drab high-rises and asphalt lots. But once upon a time, public housing was seen as a foundation for community-building, and residents were supposed to have a say in how their neighborhoods were run.Read More >

Tuesday January 26, 2010

Homeless & Racial Justice Activists Hold Summit on "Disorderly Conduct" Statute

New York City - On Thursday night at the offices of the Center for Constitutional Rights, homeless members of the citywide grassroots organization Picture the Homeless (PTH) convened a summit with leaders from other civil and human rights organizations to discuss the NYPD’s use of the Disorderly Conduct statute, which they charge is unconstitutional in its vagueness and arbitrary enforcement.Read More >

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