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COURIER L 6 IFE, FEBRUARY 14-20, 2020
Sharing the wealth
Gowanus coalition demands
NYCHA funds as part of rezoning
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The city must fully fund repairs of
its ailing public housing stock in Gowanus
ahead of the neighborhood’s rezoning,
a coalition of local community
groups demanded Wednesday.
The Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition
for Justice, a group representing
residents from the neighborhood’s
three New York City Housing Authority
developments, along with a slew of
local civic, environmental, and business
groups, called on Mayor Bill de
Blasio and the Department of City
Planning to rehabilitate the ailing
public housing — before handing private
developers a windfall in development
rights.
“I’ve been living in my apartment for
over 50-some-odd years and I’m tired of
things not being fi xed, I’m tired of New
York City Housing Authority saying,
‘we got all this allocated money,’ but
they’re not giving it to us,” said Cherry
Shivers, who lives at Wyckoff Gardens.
The group wants the city to pay for
fi xes for Wyckoff Gardens, the Gowanus
Houses, and 572 Warren St. as part of
three key demands from the city in exchange
for their support of the planned
neighborhood-wide rezoning, which
is estimated to bring some 20,000 new
residents to the area and allow for up to
22-story-tall towers along the banks of
the noxious Gowanus Canal.
The coalition also demanded that impending
developers foot the bill for new
infrastructure to prevent any additional
sewer and storm overfl ow pollution from
fl ooding into the canal, echoing previous
calls from the US Environmental
Protection Agency and the local citizens
watchdog group overseeing the cleanup.
The third demand is that the city
designate Gowanus an “Environmental
Justice Special District,” with
stringent oversight by a diverse local
board of residents, businesses, and
civic gurus of the area’s many ongoing
government projects, including the
federal Superfund Cleanup, funding to
repair damaged caused by Superstorm
Sandy, and investments to fi x NYCHA
building roofs.
“We hope the special district will
glue all of this together,” said Karen
Blondel, an activist with the Fifth Avenue
Committee which is part of GNCJ.
Some 4,300 residents dwell in the
area’s three NYCHA complexes, which
suffer from frequent outages of heat and
hot water, and general water service, in
addition to mold, lead paint, broken fi xtures,
and vermin as result of years of
underinvestment, to according to Shivers.
“We pay our rent and we work hard
to pay rent, and then we’re being used
and abused,” she said. “We want to live
Wyckoff Gardens resident Cherry Shivers
said repairs to the NYCHA complex are long
overdue on Feb. 5. Photo by Kevin Duggan
like other people, we love our apartments.”
The buildings could face up to $300
million in funding needs, according to
one activist, who slammed the city for
excluding the developments from the rezoning’s
scope.
“We feel that this is a great injustice,
that to exclude public housing from the
process, given the huge capital needs
that are necessary in this area,” said
Michael Higgins, an organizer with the
Fifth Avenue Committee.
The Warren Street development
is one of nine public housing sites in
Brooklyn currently undergoing partial
privatization through the city’s Permanent
Affordability Commitment Together
(PACT) program, a controversial
variation on the federal Rental Assistance
Demonstration (RAD) program,
whereby a private company manages
the building – although the the city still
owns it — and uses private funds to fi -
nance repairs.
The program removes the development
from Section 9 public housing and
turns it into Section 8, whereby the US
Department of Housing and Urban Development
no longer directly funds the
building’s upkeep, but issues Section
8 vouchers to tenants to help pay their
rent to a private management company.
The coalition cites PACT as one of the
ways of fi nancing repairs in the other
projects, but said the way the city is currently
converting Warren Street is “in
violation to our vision for equity and inclusion
for this community,” according
to a statement the group released.
Despite this status change, the city
could still channel funds to Warren
Street, according to Councilman Stephen
Levin whose district includes all
three NYCHA developments.
“PACT doesn’t preclude the city
from ever giving capital funding to improve
on top of that,” Levin said. “Just
like the city can provide capital funding
for other types of preservation programs.”
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