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Council Members & Communities Announce Results of Second Participatory Budgeting Process

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:13:40 -0400

In 2011, City Council Members Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn), Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R-Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D-Brooklyn) launched Participatory Budgeting (PB) in their districts, enabling their constituents to decid...

Local Organizations to host Public Meeting with State and Federal Elected Officials in Poughkeepsie

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:30:52 -0500

Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low-income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing,...

Local Organizations to host Public Meeting with State and Federal Elected Officials in Poughkeepsie

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:52:56 -0500

Local Organizations to host Public Meeting with State and Federal Elected Officials in Poughkeepsie

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:06:14 -0500

Community Voices Heard (CVH) Applauds NYC's Renewed Commitment to Public Housing

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:26:56 -0500

Community Voices Heard members, many of whom are residents in public housing across the five boroughs of NYC, were pleased to hear about Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYCHA Chairman John Rhea's new aggressive plan to address long-standing repair and...

Who pays? Hudson Valley Residents or the Wealthiest 2%

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:55:54 -0500

Now that the elections are over, Congress' focus will turn to massive across-the-board budget cuts through sequestration are currently set to begin in January, resulting in $1.2 trillion in spending and investment cuts over the next 10 years. This...

Who pays? Hudson Valley Residents or the Wealthiest 2%

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:01:36 -0500

Whether Nan Hayworth or Sean Patrick Maloney wins on Election Day, massive across-the-board budget cuts through sequestration are currently set to begin in January, resulting in $1.2 trillion in spending and investment cuts over the next 10 years...

UPDATE: Poughkeepsie's Emergency Shelter to Begin Imposing Time Limits and Fees

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:45:10 -0400

[Please note the slight change of location from the back parking lot to the sidewalk in the FRONT of the building.]

Poughkeepsie's Emergency Shelter to Begin Imposing Time Limits and Fees

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:37:26 -0400

Homeless residents of Dutchess County's only emergency shelter will join community and faith leaders to protest the shelter's new harsh policies, just one day before the policies are set to go into effect. The new policies, which are available her...

Hundreds of Low-Income New Yorkers Visit Homes of Gov Cuomo & Sen. Skelos to Deliver Performance Evaluations

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:23:26 -0400

Considering issues important to their communities, low-income New Yorkers with the group Community Voices Heard issued failing grades to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos over the weekend. They delivered their evaluations on...

Hundreds of Low-Income NYers to Hold "People's Assembly" on Long Island to Pass Overlooked Legislation

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:16:16 -0400

Meaningful job creation programs, increasing the minimum wage, strong support for affordable housing, and an overhaul of the way elections are run in New York State are desperately needed, but Governor Cuomo and Senator Skelos, two of the three mo...

Hundreds of Low-Income NYers to Hold "People's Assembly" on Long Island to Pass Overlooked Legislation

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:24:45 -0400

'Revolutionary' Participatory Budgeting Process Doubles in Size in 2nd Year

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:41:24 -0400

Council Members David Greenfield (D-Brooklyn), Daniel Halloran (R-Queens), Stephen Levin (D-Brooklyn), and Mark Weprin (D-Queens) announced today that they will be bringing the groundbreaking participatory budgeting process to their districts, joi...

CORRECTION: Yonkers Residents & Mayor Mike Spano to Meet at Community Forum to discuss jobs, housing & more

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:26:03 -0400

In light of the recent housing development initiatives under-way, low-income community members have become increasingly worried about the future of affordable and public housing in Yonkers, as well as ensuring low-income communities benefit from n...

Low-Income Yonkers Residents & Mayor Mike Spano to Meet at Community Forum to discuss jobs, housing & more

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:13:54 -0400

In Major Decision, NYC Council & Mayor Restore $25 Million for Welfare Workers

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:21:55 -0400

Community Voices Heard, a community organizing group based in East Harlem, declared victory today when the New York City Council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg worked together to restore $25 million for the city's Jobs Training Program (JTP), which h...

Highlighting Poughkeepsie's Housing & Foreclosure Crisis, Residents Lead Tour & Cleanup of Bank-Owned V

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:15:29 -0400

Over 80 Poughkeepsie residents led a tour and cleanup of vacant, foreclosed buildings Saturday afternoon to demonstrate the need for affordable housing and restoration of abandoned properties. Demonstrators visited three foreclosed homes owned by...

To Highlight City's Housing Crisis, Local Residents to Lead Tour & Cleanup of Bank-Owned Properties

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:00:44 -0400

Over 50 Poughkeepsie residents will lead a march past three bank-owned, foreclosed homes to highlight the economic crisis caused by irresponsible practices by the big banks. At each stop, community members will clean up the properties while famili...

To Highlight City's Housing Crisis, Local Residents to Lead Tour & Cleanup of Bank-Owned Properties

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:02:53 -0400

Newburgh Residents to Host Community Jobs Forum

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:46:22 -0400

Members of Community Voices Heard along with Workforce Development Institute will host a forum tonight to increase community engagement in the Newburgh Builds Newburgh program, which is designed to help address Newburgh's staggering unemployment a...

Comm. to Save NY & Cuomo Administration Coordinating to Auction Government Access

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:17:27 -0400

The following satatement wasreleased today by Agnes Rivera from Community Voices Heard and Wayne Starks from VOCAL-NY:

Community Activists Call on Bloomberg to Clawback Big Bank Subsidies, Demand NYC Budget Fund Jobs & Housing

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:57:31 -0400

Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV/ AIDS – members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Commun...

CVH & VOCAL Respond to Gov Cuomo's Comments about Super PACs

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:09:56 -0400

The following joint statement was released today in response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's statements today about Super PACs in New York State, as reported here and here. Sondra Youdelman, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard (CVH), and Sean Bar...

CVH Echoes Public Support for Innovative Models for City Council Discretionary Funding

Tue, 01 May 2012 14:53:43 -0400

Agnes Rivera, co-chair of the Community Voices Heard Board of Directors, provided the following statement regarding the release today of a new report by Citizens Union of the City of New York on recommended reforms to the New York City Council dis...

Statement in Response to Report that Committee to Save NY is Non-Compliant with State Law

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:40:31 -0400

The following joint statement was released today in response to the April 20th Associated Press story reporting that the Committee to Save New York failed to comply with "state regulations to show how it raised $9 million to support Gov. Andrew Cu...