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Showing videos filed under: public housing
Evicting Rioters from Public Housing? David Cameron Meet Michelle Alexander
August 14, 2011Getting tough the US way has created a closed-system of mass incarceration in which ex felons are discriminated against in housing and employment -- for life. And yet that is precisely the system British Prime Minister David Cameron seems keen on in response to last week's riots.Rebuilding New Orleans: Bill Quigley, Tracie Washington, Melissa Leo
August 30, 2010"We can't spray dispersant on poor people and expect they go away," Tracie Washington says, calling attention at once to the plight of the people of New Orleans, still struggling to rebuild, and the ongoing issues with the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. Like the oil that BP claims to have cleaned up, the problems left behind by Hurricane Katrina are still there, just a little bit harder to see.The F Word: Boats for All Next Time
August 30, 2010Five years ago this weekend, New Orleans nearly drowned. It didn't look that way at first -- the eye of Hurricane Katrina hit to the east, but the levee breaks that followed took out entire neighborhoods. The water didn't kill New Orleans. But the private solution approach to public problems almost did. People for whom no rising economic tides had ever lifted their boat, were left to fend for themselves. We saw them on roofs and streets, for days.We Are Sean Bell, Way Down in the Hole, and Sharon Jasper
August 27, 2010Sean Bell was shot by New York City police officers four years ago on the night before his wedding day. This summer, the city settled the case against it, agreeing to pay $7 million to Bell's family and friends, including his two children. But settlement dollars aren't enough to fundamentally change police departments around the country, from Oakland to New Orleans to right here in New York.Sharon Jasper: Fighting for Public Housing
August 27, 2010The destruction of perfectly solid public housing in New Orleans has been a hotly contested issue since Hurricane Katrina destroyed so many homes five years ago. Sharon Jasper, who spent 57 of her 58 years in public housing in New Orleans, has been fighting for the rights of returnees to affordable housing, organizing protests and bringing pressure on authorities, and she joins us via Skype from New Orleans to give us her thoughts on the situation, five years after the storm.Kai Wright & Tony Romano: Public Housing, Private Pain
August 17, 201030,000 people showed up outside of Atlanta in search of Section 8 housing vouchers last week; 62 vouchers were available. To qualify for the vouchers, a family's income is not to exceed 50 percent of the area's median income. That median income for the surrounding area? Just over $31,000 a year.Richard Kim, Public Housing, and Anchor Baby Baiting
August 16, 2010"Who needs gay bashing when you have the Ground Zero mosque?" Richard Kim, senior editor at The Nation, asks guest host Esther Armah. In a week when gay and lesbian couples may see obstacles to their right to marry in California fall away, he notes, right-wing media is strangely silent on the issue. Even Glenn Beck is suddenly sounding a libertarian note.Max Rameau and Vince Warren: Are Housing Rights the New Human Rights?
May 20, 2010Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.David Kirby, Public Housing, and the Parties in Primaries
May 19, 2010Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water. Currently, there are six million public housing units for nine million people in need of public housing. Right to the City presents, We Call These Projects Homes, interviewing Anne Washington of Community Voices Heard about the need to empower public housing communities to express this need to the government. Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.A Vision for Social Housing
January 26, 2010We talk to Catherine Albisa of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, author of Bringing Human Rights Home. Three Volumes Complete, Rob Robinson of Picture the Homeless and the Right to the City Alliance, and David Muchnick of Housing First! about public housing, empty homes and homeless people, and what "social housing" would look like.
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