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The Northwest Bronx of America
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Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Honored the life & legacy of Tom Waters @slowboring, lost to COVID, by taking a walk while many others took walks to remember him yesterday. Can’t wait to be in a dark bar with weird music with the whole tenant movement someday to honor him.
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
.@NYGovCuomo our members are asking you to define "home" because 92K New Yorkers are homeless and you are demanding they #StayHome during #COVID19. You say: #PublicHealth before the #economy. Whose #health?
Why we yell and scream “HOUSING SAVES LIVES”
@NYGovCuomo & @NYCMayor’s policing of poor people and failure to deal with the homelessness crisis is the backdrop to this public health crisis. Act now, center the most vulnerable, or more will die.
#HomelessCantStayHome
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Pied Piper's cast of Once Upon a Mattress doing a virtual run-through now, in celebration of what should have been our opening night!
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Tonight would have been our opening night for Once Upon a Mattress. Very disappointed, but PPCT is confident that we will all get through this together, and we look forward to still performing the show for our fantastic WaHi/Inwood community in the near-future! Stay healthy!
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Convince your state and local leaders that helping people keep their homes and not become homeless is an excellent use of this money. The scale is there
The bipartisan Senate #StimulusPackage contains a $150 billion #Coronavirus Relief Fund, which state, tribal, & local governments can use this year to meet costs connected to #COVID19.
How much does your state get? We got the numbers. cbpp.org/research/how-much-e…
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
.@NYGovCuomo Our members are worried about what will happen come April 1st when #Rent is due and there is no #PayCheck! Your silence on #RentRelief is making this difficult situation worse for millions of #NewYorkers!
Clayton from @VOCALNewYork continued:
"@NYgovCuomo could change the course of this crisis in an instant. There are more billionaires in this state than any other. Why aren't we taxing them for emergency housing and services? Cuomo is ignoring the homeless, he is no hero."
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
It is not safe for the RGB to hold public hearings during a pandemic. Stabilized tenants need a rent freeze in 2020!
#DeBlasioFreezeRent #RentFreeze2020 #CancelRGBVOTE
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
April 1st is 6 Days Away.
The State Budget is Due in 6 Days.
The Rent is Due in 6 days.
What's the plan for homeless New Yorkers?
What's the plan for public housing residents?
What's the plan for tenants?
@NYGovCuomo @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Our analysis from @LegalAidNYC is out and the numbers are gut-wrenchingly awful. #FreeThemNow
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Excellent new piece up at @Warscapes by @joonhai on the value of reading Wole Soyinka’s “Madmen and Specialists” amidst the #COVIDー19 crisis warscapes.com/opinion/readin…
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Great thread on poor use of research to inform policy by UK Nudge Unit.
Reminds me of weak research used to justify US welfare reform in the 1990s, when a lot of people really wanted to believe that "just get recipients *any* job" was the answer. 99percentinvisible.org/episo…
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
🚨Final deal!
✅ $4 billion in Emergency Solutions Grants to assist homeless shelters and outreach workers keep people who are homeless safer from coronavirus.
✅ $5B in CDBG, can be used for rental assistance
✅ Public Housing: $685M
(Thread)
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Another reason American federalism is bad is that it gives big responsibility to governments that lack the tools of monetary policy
So it begins. OH gov is calling for 20 percent across-the-board budget cuts due to anticipated revenue shortfalls and increased spending. cleveland.com/coronavirus/20…
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
From @FurmanCenterNYU : Make housing assistance a fundamental tenet of our social safety net shelterforce.org/2020/03/24/…
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
Lost a sax legend to COVID-19 today. 1972 Afrobeat-jazz #SongOfTheDay outta Cameroon. First track on the classic Soul Makossa album, which every music head should own. Sampled by Busta Rhymes and others.
Manu Dibango - "New Bell (Hard Pulsation)"
youtube.com/watch?v=adBfKzfe…
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
“It would seem rational for landlords to work with their tenants to keep things as normal as possible, and to keep things in place as much as possible, so that no one needs to leave their apartments in the middle of a health crisis,” - @ebdavidson199 ny.curbed.com/2020/3/24/2118…
Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20 retweeted
A film about East Lake Meadows, a former ATL public housing development, premieres tonight on @PBS. I wrote on how @sarah_l_burns and @DavidMMcMahon captured the humanity of its residents, and of America's shifting housing policy, for the @BitterSouth: bittersoutherner.com/ill-tak…
