Letters to the Editor
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‘Suburban Ban Irks Union’
Regarding “Suburban Ban Irks Union,” I was glad to see your article about expanding residency for city workers [New York, “Suburban Ban Irks Union,” October 29, 2007].
I am a city worker and one of the 45,000 DC 37 members who are currently being discriminated against because of the residency rule. There are already 240,000 city workers who can live outside the five boroughs.
DC 37 members make lower incomes than some of those workers, and we need a wider area to look for affordable housing. It’s not fair.
We love the city that we work in, but we also want to improve the quality of life for our children and our grandchildren.
We urge the City Council to support us and to pass Intro. 452.
CARMEN FLORES
New York, N.Y.
‘Sell the Projects’
I am writing to respond to the editorial, “Sell the Projects” [Editorial, October 25, 2007].
I am a NYCHA resident and member of Community Voices Heard, a community organizing group fighting to save and improve public housing in New York City. I have lived in the Wagner Houses in East Harlem for 17 years, where I have raised five children and seven grandchildren.
The writers of this piece have it all wrong. New York City does not need to sell public housing to wealthy people in order to make this city exciting and vibrant. What they propose, in fact, will do the opposite.
In East Harlem, where I live, public housing is a dynamic and vibrant place where people work hard and raise their families.
What makes my New York City exciting and vibrant is the diverse families that have lived in the public housing and the neighborhood stores that have served those communities for decades.
If we sell public housing, we will destroy those vibrant and diverse communities and create a city that is only open to the wealthy.
The government built public housing to provide affordable housing to low and moderate income people. The solution is improving the public housing that exists for the people that already live there, not getting rid of the families that make this city an exciting and vibrant place.
AGNES RIVERA
NYCHA Resident
Leader of Community Voices Heard
New York, N.Y.
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