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PREVIEW: NYC Public Housing Town Hall [STREET SOLDIERS]
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2:37Now PlayingVoices were united in the Bronx this week as NYCHA residents demanded a permanent fix for the lack of heat they've been forced to live with this winter. For weeks, Fox 5 has been reporting about lack of heat and hot water in public housing. We have been trying to get to the bottom of why tens of thousands of rent-paying residents often live without basic services.
We held a Street Soldiers town hall in the South Bronx on Wednesday so that residents could make their voices heard. Residents and resident council leaders from more than a dozen public housing developments came out with local youth and concerned elected officials to talk about ways to solve the persistent problems facing NYCHA residents.
Resident have complained about no heat or hot water, urgent repairs not being made, broken promises, and dangerous health issues like lead and mold exposure.
Street Soldiers invited the mayor and NYCHA to attend or at the very least send representatives but they were all no shows.
Two of our panelists who grew up in public housing say it is time to take the issues to NYCHA and City Hall.
We had a lot of support for the town hall from Hot 97, which helped us get the word out and provide refreshments, to the hit web series "Project Heat," which is based in the Pink Houses, to our event host, the Bronxworks Community Organization, which empowers Bronx residents to live their best life possible.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged more than $200 million for new boilers and repairs, but many are skeptical about the timeline and the amount, which they say is a drop in the bucket.
Watch the special Street Soldiers town hall episode Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, at 10:30 p.m.
--LISA EVERS
#streetsoldiers #push4peace #nycha #publichousing #noheat #lead
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