I lived Nycha Elliott-Challesa For nearly 11 years, one of the parents has raised two wonderful young men, one of which has special needs. This area is vibrant, varied and full of energy. Surrounded by beautiful brown evidence and wonderful special complexes with an abundance of trees, clean lands and safe areas to enjoy this afternoon. It is an ideal place for living and raising children, but NYCH residents often do not participate in these benefits.
While our wealthy neighbors enjoy comfort and stability, living in the deterioration of public housing has come at a very slope cost – which has harmed our health, our children and the quality of our comprehensive life.
For years, I lived with the black mold that spreads through the walls of our kitchen and bathroom, and nights without heat in the winter, fusion of mice and cockroaches, and elevators that are constantly collapsing. Sometimes, conditions in these developments are similar to the third world state – with human waste in corridors and stairs, and piles of garbage that force us to perform acrobatic games only to reach our front doors.
Many of us are waiting for weeks, if not months, for repairs, corrected walls, abandoned asbestos. Often, this led to complaints in Housing Court With no decision on the horizon. Other aid repairs will not work anymore.
When the opportunity finally came to us New houses through the Re -Development Project for Volton and Elliot ChelseaI saw him as it is: Hope. Life artery. My family and neighbors are an opportunity to live in safe and modern apartments without having to leave our society. However, with the start of the first wave of families to move, on the occasion of the start of the project, the highest votes against them are trying to silence us with endless objections and complaints – although they are not living in the campus, and it is likely not to do so.
The opponents of this project She lives comfortably in luxury apartments and brown stones, buildings from The United States, which was bothered by the idea of construction, is disturbed, but not with the dangerous conditions in which many families live. They created their own novel, making us victims unable to express our opinions. Make the strange conditions we live in Minuscule.
They do not ride broken elevators or waiting hours in the end in front of the building in the hope that the emergency crews will come to fix them. Do not worry if gas lines are suddenly stopped without notification or if the water is contaminated again, but they certainly have a lot to say about what we deserve.
I was part of countless Community council The meetings in which the room is full of people who do not live in NYCA have a lot to say about the project. They come with conspiracy theories and wrong information, and spread the lies that we will seek, and that this is a trick to expel us as if we were ignorant of the facts.
The truth is simple: this plan was built with us, not against us. The population had a seat on the table from the beginning. Our experiences and voices have formed them. The deal is clear – every resident of Nycha gets a new apartment, here on the same campus. No one loses his home.
Therefore, when these strangers shout about “transparency” and ask for answers from the people responsible for the project, I can only feel frustrated. We asked for decades while our homes around us collapsed, and no one listened. Now, when we finally have a plan that gives us real answers, strangers are working to stop, “call” to ban it, and pretend to speak to us when we made a decision to say “yes!” Long ago.
No one is forced to go out. During construction, only a small number of population needs to move to newly renewed vacant apartments here on the campus. The families of this first wave began to move and settle in their apartments that were renewed until the new buildings rise. Everyone remains here.
It is frustrated and surprising to see many people who live in fear now because of all the wrong information that are informed and frankly, you must stop.
This is the first time in decades a plan has been developed with the residents of Nycha, not behind the closed doors. And if we leave fear and external pressure, they affect it, then we risk losing the only true opportunity that we had to fix what is broken. We believe in Volton’s homes, safer, more vibrant, Eleiot Chelsea where children can play freely, the elderly can mix, and families can be proud to contact this place to the house.
Luciano lives in Elliot Chelsea with her two sons.