Teachout, AM Niou, Shelter Res: "BDB Stop Letting Rich Neighborhoods & Their Lawyers Make NYC Homeless Policy"

NEW YORK, NY (10/11/2020) (readMedia)-- As a downtown group tries to raise $1 million to fight the entry of Lucerne shelter residents into their neighborhood, Zephyr Teachout and Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou will join with homeless residents from the Lucerne Hotel and UWS Open Hearts to demand Mayor de Blasio stop kowtowing to white New Yorkers' fear of black and brown homeless people.

The downtown group's move came after Bill de Blasio caved to a group of Upper West Siders who started a racist facebook group and raised $150,000 to hire top litigator Randy Mastro to kick Project Renewal shelter residents out of the Lucerne. The Mayor's decision to move the shelter has emboldened NIMBYs across New York City to privately fundraise ever-growing sums to keep shelters out of their neighborhoods. Now, some shelter residents will move -- in the middle of a pandemic -- for the third or even fourth time.

WHO:

Zephyr Teachout, anti-corruption Professor and former Attorney General candidate

Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou

Lucerne Resident Shams Da Baron, aka da Homeless Hero, and other shelter residents

Members of UWS Open Hearts

Joshua Goldfein, Legal Aid Society

Office of the Public Advocate

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WHAT:

Press conference zoom with Zephyr Teachout and Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou who will join with homeless residents from the Lucerne Hotel and UWS Open Hearts to demand Mayor de Blasio stop kowtowing to white New Yorkers’ fear of black and brown homeless people.
WHEN: Monday October 12, 2020 at 12:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: SEE NOTES FOR ZOOM
New York
NOTES:

ZOOM INFORMATION:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88901651391?pwd=WVVJeGJjWnMwbWtKZUNxbGg0QmxUUT09

Meeting ID: 889 0165 1391

Passcode: 429416

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