Inside NYCHA Housing: A Firsthand Account
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- čas přidán 8. 02. 2018
- The embattled New York City Housing Authority continues to face backlash over busted boilers in freezing temperatures, but those are just the latest in a long list of violations. Tonight, we travel to the Redfern housing project in Queens for a firsthand look at the living conditions and to hear from the tenants who are at the center of the fight for basic human rights.
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I have never been on Section 8 however, unlike other hateful humans, I do NOT agree that public housing tenants should be forced to live in such slums simply because the general public see them as less than. Not everyone on public housing has no job or education. Many have both and still can’t afford anything more than public housing and therefore, if you think any differently of them then you’re ignorant. If all of these residents were kicked out onto the streets, these cocky “tax payers” would be complaining big time over how big the homeless problem is. Every single human being deserves safe, well maintained housing.
Exactly! Neither have I, but I feel the same way you do.
SmittyMcBittyB the fuck are you trying to say?
Its the ridiculous management of the city under the mayor and his terrible ideals
Move the fuck out, NY is expensive ass fuck if you’re broke go to a cheaper city
They aren't forced into doing nothing...It's govt given shelter,unfortunately Govt dont know how to Run ANYTHING properly.
This is why we dont want the Bernie's and AOCs to have anymore power or control.
When my grandfather worked there as a brick layer, they would fine you if you walked on the grass. By the time my father worked there, he told me story’s of constantly having to hide under cars to avoid being shot in the cross fire of a gang fight.
And ya'll this is not just NYCHA. This is also Section 8 housing with landlords that take advantage of those getting the assistance and see them as inferior and don't want to do repairs nor care about their tenants.
100% fax, can confirm. Shit I live on a street where roughly 20 houses sit, over half are rundown, not up to code, etc. all owned by the same slumlord that does the absolute bare minimum. and i unfortunately live in one of those houses.
This is infuriating. Good on Metro Focus for covering, and on Glen for everything he’s doing for his community.
Imagine if the community stepped up and took responsibility for their own living area. I lived in a low income building for a while, I did all sorts of basic maintenance that made it significantly more livable. Then, at the same time, you have people asking cigarettes in the hallways, and leaving empty bags of McDonald's garbage. Be responsible for yourself, don't expect somebody to come and fix everything for you
@ruby-two How did that happen? I know how it happened. Wherever these people move they destroy what others have built.
@ruby-two No. One. Owes. You. Housing.
See, this is why people really, really despise you. You feel not only that you’re owed something you’re not, but that it should be of the highest quality.
They built like prison
Yes, that area is staggardly depressing. :[
Yes. More similar to a prison than a home feeling really.
Yep, Low Income living.
The tenants should take control. Stop paying rent. Combine your resources, hire someone to come in and remove the mold, fix the plumbing and heating, hire some painters. Form a committee and come up with a plan. These people do not care about you. Where's the mayor.
But then if they don’t pay the rent they get evicted
No rent, they'll cut the water and heat..
I wonder how many "pay" rent?
@@josephgaviota not to many.
Wow you seem like a really great guy, I am glad we still have people like you in the world.
I mean that mold causes pneumonia/ Asthma. Just significant damage to the lung overall.
Looks like the last apartment I lived in. Cracks in the wall, mold, outdated and section 8. Discouraging to pay for a place like that to live.
Absolutely horrible. These tenants deserve so much better.
Theres ppl in the projects with clean apartments. STOP IT
I had a sewage problem in the beginning of my pregnancy from October to December 2017 .... I had to get a cheap hotel. I took them to court and absolutely nothing was done. They did run here when I convinced the media to come
Stay strong queen
That’s why your living in the project with an onlyfans raising a baby in that mess get a job and get a house
Matt Matt I do have a job (career ) not just onlyfans
Matt Matt get back in the studio cuz your shit is trash .
Taste Morales triggered go beg for subs somewhere else no one wants those used up walls do you even know who your child’s father is? Doubt it
Mold growth is not uncommon in Public Housing complexes. It is in fact known to cause significant damage to the Lungs as well as Long term health effects. Asthma. Ect ect.
I can’t imagine what it is like during Covid 29.
Worst. Before they would just cancel tickets acting like they fixed the problems. Now they just say tha due to covid repairs are being pushed back cause of lack of workers.
Covid 29?
Thank You Glen for everything that you do for your Community. You are a Blessing to so many people. Yah Bless 🙏🏽
all those projects need to be knocked down and tenents should be placed into better living conditions. give them vouchers to leave nyc and have the option to move to any other state they want to.
Cheers to this guy
indeed
especially when he said peopel are trying to get out of poverty
where is the encouragement? this sentiment is what peopel should focus on and ecnourage.
i hope more attention is brought to the living conditions and their case
They need to knock down these buildings. They can't keep up with them. They need to build housing n move ppl into them. Im glad i live in utah.. They help alot with housing n do yearly inspections. Why dont nyc do this?
they are too important. you demolish these type of buildings and hundreds of families get displaced. whatever replaces them will be too expensive for many of the low income families living there. housing projects arents nice to live in but they are very important, a whole lot better than being homeless
Thank you so much for this!
Hi Glen... My name is Jenny Luna my apartment is in the same condition as of now no heat! I was decriminated, verbally mentally emotionally abuse by management officc, even took them to court due to rat, water, mold damage I lost all my furniture from bobs furniture store I've saved to by only to have it only a year! Took them to housing court for all these matters... Results after court a mockery of there laughter sent me to the hospital with a heart attack!) is the result of the people from management office! I've reported it, called, emailed bottom line? Nothing! And that is just a head lines...... I live in Wagner houses no. Responde to aything! That lady shala????? Went to that TV station to save their hinds! To make themselves look good in the news and public.. But see who see and knows what and how we live are not blind!! I'm ready to sue!! Like I said you cannot imagine how I'm living, and the torment of emotions stress I'm presently living and with witness my hospital social worker who witnessed all.... Everyone turns the cheek! Everything falls on deaf ear!! But if we miss one payment of rent we'd be in court to throw us out! We are private, pentecostal Christians, no drinking, no party, we mind our own business I hate and cannot stand nor tolerate gossip of any kind! But these people??? They feel there untouchable??!! Jen...
On average, NYCHA residents aren't paying rent that's equal to the value of the services that they aren't receiving. The taxpayers are paying most of their rent and utilities for them. On a human level, people should have habitable living conditions, but we need to stop pretending like from a financial perspective that people are "owed" something when they never paid for it in the first place.
@Lucifer Morningstar stop lying, NYCHA residents dont pay any gas, heat, water and electricity.
I am not sure if you ever stepped foot into a NYCHA building - Some are more well maintained than others but on average it's pretty crappy housing, infested with pests, leaks, mold and not to mention the gangs, shootings and generally unsafe environment, especially for vulnerable people (elderly, families etc...). I think even the $200 / $300 per month rent is a lot of money to spend for someone who is on welfare ...
@@fuzzyduck1989
Any building infested will reduce health and employment of residents😡
If u want ppl to contribute u gotta keep them healthy
Wow a lot of people in the comments don’t have a heart. Everyone doesn’t have the same opportunities. The playing field is not equal. A lot of people that live in the projects have been there for generations. If you start at the bottom it’s hard to see the bigger picture when you don’t have the means to change your situations. Middle class people live check to check just to survive so imagine if if your income is lower than that. It’s people out here really having to survive off $7-9 an hour for life. You can say get a better job but it’s not always easy if you don’t have a car, or childcare. People living in poverty is not always in their control. It’s sad how many people don’t have compassion for people. Ask yourself, if you lost everything today.. job home and car, no family or friends to live with, what would you do? Whatever you had to to survive and not sleep outside.
Well said.
Girl exactly
such a victim
I wish it were possible to like your comment a thousand times. Compassion and empathy are traits that most people simply lack. Be blessed 🙏🏾
@@juanshaftpatel7488 You are a Troll, i've see you comment on other people! Please get a life
Glad this was covered!
Projects and buildings are similar when it comes to the cleanliness and conditions inside the apartments
I lived in the projects before With my bd & My Daughter & it was Regular but the only bad thing was that's it had mold just like that's in our bathroom mind you I have Asthma and I was pregnant with my daughter they paint over it but it was still come back and the house and things even our clothes had a bad smell to it😞😪Cuz of the mold we had to move out within a year it got bad😑Good luck tho
I can imagine. In my building there was mold growth. Fungus. It causes significant lung damage/asthma. Long term health affects.
Most NYCHA Housing complexes have been sold to the enterprises and corporations that are using tactics to get rid of the tenants there, because of the past how the tenants torn down their complexes and put the agency in a 2. billions deficit. I like what you tenants are doing, because in the end the new landlord will be putting a eviction notice downstairs where you live if you bring it to their attention. The new landlord is there 247 to get rid of you all in that complex. It sad, put it's happening, because of money.
Pray God expose all evil workers in housing. And rid these snakes taking advantage of others, because of covetuousness
Its time they make a change!
Thank you for exposing this . Nobody should have to live this way. This definitely didn’t happen overnight and it’s an ongoing problem all over . There needs to be accountability. This is beyond wrong.
If any of this happened to you call police or get a lawyer
If NYCHA fix these issues, the tenants will have to move out. The city has to gut these buildings.
and on the other side you got all those gentrifying snobs living the life.
Alpha and Omega and you think a lot of these people aren’t?
@Alpha and Omega Agreed.
They mere stuff on the walls, you can see streaks , I have to often clean my walls down with bleach, for my safety.
As a community housing units everyone should come together give half of they're rent to make the repairs then when they take u to court for it say u had to take care of the repairs on yall own.
@Keshona Pearson The suggestion is for people who can afford to take partial rent payments and fix what is taking them to long to get too. Each housing project structure is different and alot of repair tickets get put in some people cant even get things fix til the following year or more. To every problem there is a solution.
@Keshona Pearson The solution given is not an "easy fix" to the problem but a solution that can be used. The internal structure and set up of Project Housing goes beyond a higher up coming in to change it. If the people in this 2020 election for example came out in numbers to vote for the president they wanted to see in there then I believe the same would have to be done for anything else. Anyone living in housing projects would have to come together as a collective to see change.
I wouldn’t wanna fix it either all tgey gone do is tare it right back up 😩😩
My name is Ms Collins, I have been sounding off long before Mr. Collins regarding NYCHA Negligence and corruption. Lack of repairs, or Botched repairs. He's basically making the same statements I've been making for years. The deplorable conditions in my apartment almost literally killed my youngest son at the age of 5yrs old, how now has developed asthma. There is more that I would like to say and can say, but I would like to say it to the right people or person.
I know it's hard for a lot of people but the best solution might be just to get out of NY and move somewhere cheaper.
Keep pushing! You shouldnt have to leave your home. If you pay rent they obligated to make sure the living conditions are up to par. I hope yall can get together and sue the city and get what you deserve.
ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE AND LIVE IN THE PJS/GHETTO NEEDS TO BE EUTHANIZED PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!
Miss tell it like it is, I saw your channel. It's something else. Good work.
Sir Leight Hamilton stfu clown.
Props to you Glenn.
NYCHA seems corrupt and mismanaged let alone irresponsible. All people deserve better living conditions and protection.
Damn... Hasn't changed much since I was a youngin. Almost identical conditions to my complex in the Bronx
That's sad that people in America live like this..
This is what happens when millions of people are stacked on top of each other
You need to see 868 Amsterdam Ave, between 102 St and 103 St, that place are out control. I'm tired to call and give complaints and no body do one thing.
How is it today?
No body is forcing you to live in the progects get your stuff together and move out.
Generations can live in these apartments. America need to show this to the world 🌎
That "electrical box" is a phone and cable junction which can get damaged
It's nice to see a brother as tenant association president. This interview was 2018. I wonder how you guys are doing at Redfern houses these days? God bless you.
Unfortunately people stopped caring we are still without help
How much is the rent that they are Payo???
In New York rents are pretty high!
Wonder what the rent is to live and staying there ...
I’m sure there is options either to stay or find a decent place to live depending on what you rent looks like
If this was a privately run building the owners would have long been sued into oblivion. What people warned when projects were being built has come to fruition: the government has almost no accountability for these buildings and they’ve become hellholes due to disrepair.
Sad!!! the poor don't have a voice
1:44 that's time warner cable junction box.
God bless you brother.
They needed to interview the person who sent her from NyCHA.. he compared it to New Jack City.. it is a warfare...
Everything looked like New Jack City. Streets don't change new buildings prospects and attitudes do
Crack era.
The lack of compassion, and excess of judgement and hatred in this comment section is disturbing. This is why humanity is a doomed species. It's the hateful, warmongers, and the greedy who are destroying this world not the poor. Disparities create the perfect conditions for war, and war is responsible for so much destruction, disease, death, and famine.
I agree. It's so sad.
Is the building still being used?
The rent is very cheap compared to regular building
how much is it?
You get what you pay for. Cheap means substandard so don’t bitch and Moan about mice and cockroaches.
The plumbing is something else
Honestly I scene where the knock it down and rebuild it and it 5 years the new place is just like it was before
This is my healing for living in the projects. Im out now
Nobody should have to live like that. Places like this and others need attention.
So sad
Their some evil bastards, use security guards to mock you, brag about their state of the art sirvalanced cameras, they use to watch you leaving.
I am writing from the perspective of a neutral third party simply using what you have said and this is my take
1. the buildings are old so you cannot expect the buildings to function as new
2. I hear a lot of excuses from the non-elderly
3. It appears that these people are looking for someone to take care of them
4. Lots of excuses and looking for people to do stuff for them
5. MOVE
IT'S NOT JUST a PROBLEM IN FAR ROCKAWAY HOUSES. IT'S A HUGE PROBLEM IN NYCH ACROSS THE WHOLE ENTIRE CITY OF NEW YORK. REPAIRS FALLING ON DEF EAR BUT WHEN IT COMES TO RENT THEY ACT WITH THE QUICKNESS AND THE DRUG DEALERS LIVING IN PUBLIC HOUSES IS ANOTHER ISSUE . THEY ACT OLIVIOUS TOWARD IT.
They will taint food in your house, when your out. Pee in seasonings to make hard.
Tenants in the projects and homeless people use the stair wells for sex drugs and Tiolet bowls. Hope your elevators work.
Just because people live in public housing
It don't mean they don't or dint work HARD.
I lived in far Rockaway for 32 and counting
Wow
Warfare isnt supposed to be a life long commitment for able bodies. Too many able people living off the government. That only hurt the people who really needs it. Rebuild affordable housing for the disabled and elderly then get a bulldozer out for these ran down buildings.
chocolaterain Warfare? Really? Psssst
stay out of things you know nothing about ruskie. most of ya are on welfare.
It's not living of the government it's living of the tax payer's taxes. The rich do it how they manage to find all the loop holes amazes me .
Read Richard Rothstein's "The Color of Law".
My biggest problem is the bum men who live there and don't of pay for shit.Then sell drugs there and commit crimes.
I can't imagine being the Building Association President.
I see gentrifications this is what they do Money Money Money is what the so call powers to be do it’s sickening
Anyone who will sell you for a dollar , pizza, or food bank.
NYCHA is better than most other countries who live in poverty. People would take these Apt gratefully. Work needs to be done but its alot of work.
I saw two people being paid by someone , they were carrying stagg water, in a garbage can,- was going to out it in the wash machine
Pay attention
The buildings are built worse that he barracks
I tired to get the news company to come in.
Wow how old is this video
Who's plan😲!!!
how much is the rent threre?
It only costs giving up on life
1/3 of your gross income or if you make over a certain amount you pay "flat rent"
A third or quarter of your income, whatever that may be.
I once said as I was leaving public housing, “I would rather take my chances in the private housing market with a section 8 voucher.” Do you think I regret saying that now?
How are you liking your new home?
i used to live in this hood shit greezy boi! i stayed in Edgemere tho, but the fern litty! Far rock stand up!
Did edge mere have these same problems?
What the fuck is Warnuckles III trying to say? I say to him: YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP!
@@MoneyOverFame definitely
fuck redfern and fuck Far rock
This is a disgrace😣
They break the drawers to your dresser that they roll out that you can't shut them. Chip your dishes, that pins out of your knifes. Use other tenants around you to watch you, and scrutinize you.
They spray your clothes with staff water, go in your refrigerator. Slot of vile nastiness going on. I was going to put a water filter on, and unscrewed it to find out someone had put three green rocks, looking like titty bowl toilet cleaner in the faucet
Watch eatting from those so called cooking for others in the bldging
This is not the people. This is mismanagement by nycha
To NYCHA residents, this is the best your democratic vote has to offer you.
Lol🤣🤣🤣🤣 ur fun they to live there for every. It should be a stepping stone
Tell me how a Republican vote would make things different than what they're currently dealing with.
Idk why they don't sue these people and before someone says they don't have the money for a lawyer if you call around you can find some that will do it for free or when your award money from the housing the lawyer can take a legal fee idk I'd be sueing them really you guys could make alot of Money doing it.what they are doing is illigal but they know know one will do shit about it the tenants. I hope at least someone actually reads this comment and takes my advice and actually look for someone and maybe mention when you win ur case you will give some to the lawyer. But you have to be really consistent and fight for ur rights there is also legal aid to help also it's your rights as a tenant fuck that shit.
This ain't nothing! Go live in some army barracks on fort bragg, this is nice compared to on base living.
Public housing is not forever to live there is just for u to get on ur feet
Where is NYCHA at? What part of new York is this at?
If it's all they can afford (at 800 a month?), then what?
Don’t like it? Move out. Buy a house, pay rent for an apartment.
Buy it for us since you clicked this video just to talk shit.
I been trying to move out for approximately 20 years but I'm given a fake negative references to all potential landlords and Housing staff for harassment, damaging lies and slanders. I'm in N.C. Durham Housing Authority supposedly section 8 I'm over charge rent. I've refuse to give rent hoping they will take me to court for eviction: then I can speak my Truth. Naples Terrace will not do it. What now should I do?
Fuckd up!
some people think they should live like kings and queens at the cost of others
Has it gotten better?
Nope!
i grew up in the projects Virginia and Maryland and Washington d.c. so ie agree that the housing authority needs to change however it starts with the tenants first and when that starts only then can the people at the housing authority can do what needs to be done and know this is as black people we are supposed to be strong in the lord at all times this and what the world is experiencing is truly a test of faith not just black or white but all people GOD bless us all.
Child bye they sell infested homes over ad over again.
Housing gave their maintance workers a corkey to stick in your sealnders to come in without keys.
Only if you don’t have your own top lock. Are you people so poor you can’t get one shame!!!
The lights are on during the day, not at night.
Something to learn: AM vs PM ...
This is disgusting, I really hope things are starting to change.
They will try and make it look like your nasty- throw stuff behind your stove, refrig, and couches, under bed- wearing you out to clean. Wipe stuff on walls, strip shine from cabinets.
How can they enter your apartment without your consent? Can't you add another lock to keep them out?
Maybe it’s you that’s nasty!
Marvinwoodard I have a