[BwayDems] Fwd: 2/3/11:Town-Hall Meeting with elected officials to Preserve Affordable Housing!

[Paula Diamond Roman]

From: Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing <marc at iahh.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:05 AM
Subject: 2/3/11:Town-Hall Meeting with elected officials to Preserve Affordable Housing!






















































EVENT-REMINDER:
Join The Interfaith Assembly, the Real Rent Reform Campaign and Goddard Riverside Community Center on February 3rd, 7pm  at a Town-Hall Meeting on Preserving and Strengthening our Rent Laws



 
NY STATE ASSEMBLY MEMBERS ARE COMING TO THE UPPER WEST SIDE...


 
Assembly Members Confirmed:

 
Daniel O'Donnell
Jonathan Bing
 Brian Kavanaugh
Linda Rosenthal
Deborah Glick
 
 

Assembly Members Invited:

 
Linda Rosenthal
Deborah Glick
Micah Kellner
Robert Rodriguez
Daniel O'Donnell
Keith Wright
Herman Farrell
Guillermo Linares
Jonathan Bing
Brian Kavanaugh
Richard Gottfried
and Speaker Sheldon Silver


PLEASE JOIN US!
In June 2011, all NY State rent protections will expire - putting at risk many of the over 1 million NYC renter households depending on rent regulations to keep their homes affordable (fully one out of three households are paying 50% or more of their income in rent.)The strong support of the NY State Assembly is crucial if the rent laws are to be RENEWED and STRENGTHENED


The Interfaith Assembly Joins our allies in the Real Rent Reform Campaign in calling for:

- Renewal and Strengthening of our Current Rent Protections


 - Full Repeal of Vacancy Decontrol, (which has resulted in the loss of over 150,000 rent regulated apartments over the past 10 years) and
 
- A Full Extension of Rent Protections to all Mitchell-Lama & Section 8 buildings that leave government  programs.
 
Join the Interfaith Assembly and tenant and housing advocates from across Manhattan for this critical borough-wide meeting to show our elected officials how important this issue is to our city. Come hear the latest updates from Albany to strategize with our allies on how to protect our homes!
 
Just click here to view and download or share the Flyer with a list invited Manhattan State Assembly Members!

 
Time & Location:

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011, 7pm-8:30pm
 
Goddard Riverside Community Center
593 Columbus Ave at West 88th Street
(by subway: #1 to W86 St, walk 2 blks east; #B or C to W86th St, walk 1 bk west)

For more information: Real Rent Reform www.realrentreform.org
212-608-4320 x316, 212-979-6238 x200
 

 
Important note:
 
The R3 Campaign hopes to have a meeting in all New York City boroughs with its Assembly Member representitives to help strengthening and preserve rent laws in our city.

 
The next announced meeting will be on Thursday, February 17th at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church (85 S. Oxford Street at Lafayette Avenue) in Brooklyn starting at 6 PM.
If you need more information please contact  
Juanita Edwards at 718-522-2613 Ext. 24 
 

The Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing is a coalition of religious organizations and individuals working with and on behalf of homeless, poorly housed, and at-risk individuals. A not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, The Assembly was founded in 1986 at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City.
The Assembly addresses homelessness in two ways: helping those who are homeless recover from the trauma associated with their homelessness and begin to rebuild their lives - through our Life-Skills Empowerment programs; and by working with our broad base of coalition partners in supporting the establishment of public policies that will provide needed services to those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and supporting policies that will produce and preserve housing affordable to homeless and lowest income New Yorkers.



www.iahh.org





















 
 
 
Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing | 48 St Mark's Pl | New York | NY | 10003

 


      
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