NYAPRS Action Alert!
CALL the NYS ASSEMBLY TODAY and tell them to VOTE NO on Bill A.02553A!!
This bill would give the NYC City Planning Commission the ability to stop new Supportive Housing residences from being built, and threatens to shut down existing residences that are already serving
formerly homeless individuals and families!
CALL the Assembly members listed below NOW and tell them to VOTE NO on A.02553A .
Tell them this bill:
- Is discriminatory and violates both the ADA and Fair Housing Acts;
- Allows a city agency to evict formerly homeless and low-income residents;
- Jeopardizes all supportive housing construction;
- Jeopardizes all existing single-site supportive housing that houses over 20,000 people in the NYC area including women and children who are domestic violence survivors and homeless veterans; and
- Jeopardizes all of the state, federal, city funding (billions!) that has been invested in building and sustaining this housing.
Tell these assembly members, “There is no recovery without housing. A02553A promotes stigma and discrimination, and threatens my right to recover with dignity in the community!”
Background on bill: The NYS Senate passed this bill last week and the Assembly version (A02553A) is currently in the Assembly’s Cities Committee. It’s crucial that you send an email and/or call Assembly member Michael Benedetto and the additional following State Assembly sponsors and co-sponsors of the bill and tell them why they should vote no.
NO TIME TO DELAY – CALL NOW!!
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Michael Benedetto (Primary Sponsor/Cities Committee Chair) |
518-455-5296 |
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Peter J. Abbate |
518-455-3053 |
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Michael Blake |
518-455-5272 |
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Edward C. Braunstein |
518-455-5425 |
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Alec Brook-Krasny |
518-455-4811 |
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Marco Crespo |
518-455-5514 |
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Michael G. DenDekker |
518-455-4545 |
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Jeffrey Dinowitz |
518-455-5965 |
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Mark Gjonaj |
518-455-5844 |
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Phillip Goldfeder |
518-455-4292 |
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Margaret M. Markey |
518-455-4755 |
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Michael Miller |
518-455-4621 |
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Walter T. Mosley |
518-455-5325 |
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Francisco P. Moya |
518-455-4567 |
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Victor M. Pichardo |
518-455-5511 |
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Luis R. Sepulveda |
518-455-5102 |
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Michael Simanowitz |
518-455-4404 |
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Aravella Simotas |
518-455-5014 |
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Matthew Titone |
518-455-4677 |