New York Considers a Social Housing Bill
New Yorkโs state assembly is considering a new bill proposing the creation of a Social Housing Development Authority to ease the stateโs housing crisis. The idea of โsocial housingโ is not new, but it is an elegant solution, one that offers a more direct alternative to the standard practice of subsidizing private developers in the hope that they will create affordable housing.ย
California has introduced its own version of the bill called the Social Housing Act, and activists across the country are pushing their own cities to adopt such an idea.ย
Genevieve Rand, Statewide Housing Organizer for Citizen Action of New York and member of the Housing Justice for All steering committee in New York spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the New York social housing bill.
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Sonali Kolhatkar
joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator ofย YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Instituteโs Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author ofย Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justiceย (2023) andย Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silenceย (2005). Her forthcoming book is calledย Talking About Abolitionย (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Womenโs Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Masterโs in Astronomy from the University of Hawaiโi, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on โMy Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Hostโ in her 2014ย TEDx talkย of the same name.
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