Organizing in the East Bay, writing on housing futures, PhD completed 2024, @GC_CUNY, disso: “The Contested State of Public Housing in NYC”.
San Francisco, CA
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Kristen Hackett retweeted
President Claudia Sheinbaum has just sent a bill to Congress banning GMO corn, declaring maize a cornerstone of Mexican national identity, and enshrining agroecological practices as mandatory.
No GMO poison. No glyphosate. This is food sovereignty and environmental justice in practice.
Kristen Hackett retweeted
According to CPS officials, ICE agents were turned away from Hamline Elementary Schools. This is the power of a union contract that fights for everyone. In 2019 we won sanctuary provisions for our schools & we will work together to protect our students and communities.
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Kristen Hackett retweeted
LA isn’t playing around… There’s a spreadsheet of landlords price-gouging rent during the LA Fires docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Kristen Hackett retweeted
This is such irresponsible disinformation @thehill: "In total, the Biden administration has now spent $183.6 billion to forgive student loans."
There is no ***spending*** involved in cancelling a debt. Like it literally involves $0 of spending. thehill.com/homenews/educati…
Kristen Hackett retweeted
In poor and working-class neighborhoods, tenants will be hit with harassment, frivolous 3-day notices, and baseless evictions. THEN the landlords will price-gouge, and the former tenants will become homeless.
EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW
Kristen Hackett retweeted
What’s currently happening in Los Angeles is exactly what we have been warning about.
The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences.
ALT LA GAVE MORE MONEY TO COPS WHILE CUTTING FIRE BUDGETS. NOW IT’S BURNING. “The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” said a local activist.
ALT What is currently happening and unfolding is what we have been warning about,” said Ricci Sergienko, a lawyer and organizer with People’s City Council LA. “The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences, and these elected officials do actually have blood on their hands. The city is unprepared to handle this fire, and Los Angeles shouldn’t be in that position.”
Kristen Hackett retweeted
He lost his home of almost 40 years. Now, at 59, he’s in his car.
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Kristen Hackett retweeted
So much looking forward to the conversation with legendary Michael Hudson.
Join us!
9th of January, 8 pm GMT.
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Kristen Hackett retweeted
Why should we be sacrificed for Related Companies greed. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Kristen Hackett retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨 The MIT Coalition for Palestine representing 19 student and faculty groups just released an 83-page report 'MIT Science for Genocide' on how MIT conducts war research on campus sponsored directly by the Israeli military.
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Kristen Hackett retweeted
In my upcoming book, I show that, beginning in the 1980s, attributing homelessness to mental illness and addiction was politically engineered to obscure the socioeconomic roots of the crisis and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space.
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In the US today, more and more people with full-time jobs are being pushed into homelessness.
Low-wage workers can't afford rent.
My book explores the staggering rise of America's working homeless, told through the lives of five families in Atlanta.
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Kristen Hackett retweeted
Protesters united once again to resist the demolition & privatization plan for NYCHA Fulton & Elliott-Chelsea (FEC) Houses! Our homes are not for profit. Save Section 9! #StopTheDemolition #SaveFultonHouses #SaveElliottChelseaHouses archpaper.com/2024/12/nycha-…
Kristen Hackett retweeted
Absolutely awful. Myrie wants NYCHA "mixed-income" (UNAFFORDABLE) infill, giveaway of public land 4 unaffordable development, & destruction of industrial zones 4 "mixed-income" housing. All resting on "supply-demand" to reduce rents: doesn't work. NEXT CANDIDATE PLEASE?
Kristen Hackett retweeted
NYCHA Fulton Houses tenants against 2025 demolition.
This election proves that our voices cannot be ignored,” said Lara in a statement. “The residents of Fulton Houses are speaking out. #FultonHouses #NYCHA #protectourhomes #NODEMOLITION
Kristen Hackett retweeted
it's incredible that we don't have a single memorial, or a day of remembrance, or really any meaningful attempt to collectively process the scale of loss and trauma we all experienced as a country or as a world
Kristen Hackett retweeted
A reminder that there are hundreds of billions of dollars of fraudulent student loans from scam for-profit colleges and that the Biden Department of Education has the legal authority to cancel every single penny of them
All it takes is writing fucking memo
Kristen Hackett retweeted
Investors got big tax breaks to turn luxury Bay Area apartments into affordable housing. In many cases, rents are higher than before | mercurynews.com/2024/12/01/i… – at Los Angeles, CA
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Public records show San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management continued sweeping homeless people and confiscating their tents, shoes, clothing, and survival supplies in the runup to last week's storm, even as the department warned residents to take shelter.
As storms continue to pummel Northern California, unhoused San Franciscans and their advocates fear the city’s aggressive removal of tents and structures in recent months is leaving people especially vulnerable to the elements.
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Kristen Hackett retweeted
The government’s leading program for creating affordable rentals is enriching corporate landlords while making life hell for struggling tenants.
I went long on the low-income housing tax credit for @newrepublic. newrepublic.com/article/1840…
