

Ocasio-Cortez turned down the funding request. Despite the dangerous conditions facing public housing tenants, the office of U.S. Members of Fight For NYCHA described the Government’s divestment and neglect of public housing, and members of Fight For NYCHA noted that, as a result, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-New York City) was proposing to privatise public housing.
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Ocasio-Cortez sponsor a budget resolution for the 2019-2020 Federal Budget in the full amount of NYCHA’s capital budget deficit, estimated to be $32 billion. At first, Fight For NYCHA was requesting that U.S.


Members of Fight For NYCHA had e-mail exchanges and several calls with staff, as well as in-office meeting with staff and with U.S. Ocasio-Cortez’s office with an opportunity for her to show leadership on the need to fully-fund the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA, as the local public housing authority is known. Ocasio-Cortez turned down a request in March to sponsor a budget resolution to fully-fund the local public housing authority.Įarly in 2019, members of Fight For NYCHA approached U.S. That outreach arm is now engaged in dishonestly organising public housing tenants after U.S. Veterans of her campaign reportedly formed an outreach and get-out-the-vote arm of Justice Democrats, known as Movement School. Her campaign win was credited to Justice Democrats, a new political committee. Ocasio-Cortez invoked her subscription to socialist ideology as a primary qualification for public office. By running for office with help from the Democratic Socialists of America, U.S. For decades, New Yorkers had been enduring horrifying Government policies set by neoliberalism and austerity. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) portrayed herself as the antidote to corporate Democrats, who had gone tone-deaf to the suffering of average people. During her campaign for Congress, and after her election, U.S.
