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Affordable Housing Rally, New York City, Feb. 2, 2005

Affordable Housing Rally

New York City, Feb. 2, 2005


Join Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and the Jewish contingent at a rally on Wednesday, February 2, at 4:30 outside City Hall (Broadway, 2 blocks south of Chambers) to demand that City officials guarantee affordable housing to ALL New Yorkers!


This march and rally will underscore five policy changes that can help New York City address it's worsening housing crises and create and preserve homes for the neediest New York City households.JFREJ and the Jewish contingent will be meeting with a number of other faith-based groups at 4:00 at Saint Paul?s Chapel (209 Broadway, ½ block from Fulton, take the 2/3, 4/5, A/C or J/M/Z to Fulton Street) and we will be stepping off to march at 4:30 sharp.


Look for the JFREJ banner!


For more information and fliers about the rally, and to see the policy demands, visit www.housinghereandhow.org. Please RSVP if you plan to join us by emailing Matt Vogel at matthewvogel@gmail.com so we?ll know we?ll see you there.


See www.housinghereandhow.org for background information, details of the march, fliers, and contact information.

The five rally demands are:


1) Support legislation to strengthen tenants' rights to a healthy home through better inspections and tougher penalties;


2) Relocate homeless people living with AIDS from costly emergency shelter to less expensive permanent housing;


3) Use Battery Park City money to create and preserve more than 15,000 affordable homes for low-income and moderate households;


4) Require that developers who take advantage of zoning changes include affordable homes in their projects; and


5) Restore home rule over rent regulation and tenants' rights to the City of New York.