Sia Weaver

And transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently.

And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well,

are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.

be able to set up and staff the agency um but also build build new housing um across the state as well as acquire distressed housing across the state the mechanisms for acquiring distressed housing could look different on a building by building basis in some cases what happens is tenants form a tenant association they have a scofflaw landlord or someone who's not making repairs and they could pressure um you know using organizing tactics they could pressure to

the social housing development authority to take over their homes, to buy their homes.

In other cases, it might happen through like the legal process.

A couple of days ago, one of the most notorious landlords in the city, his name is Oak Shalom.

He was arrested because he is treating his tenants so badly, hundreds of thousands of open code violations.

In cases like that, where the city is actively pursuing already sort of litigation and enforcement mechanisms against the landlord, the SHDA is an option.

We can say, hey,

You know, you are not maintaining this building and we are the city of New York.

We have an interest in making sure that housing is well maintained and we're going to take this building away from you.

We should really look to what Brandon Johnson, as well as the Chicago Teachers Union, is doing to really use the schools and the city as sites of resistance against a federal incursion.

If you're comfortable in your coalition, you're not winning power.

If ICE and the National Guard are coming to New York City, ICE is already here.

If the National Guard is coming on January 1st, which we know...

They are.

We really have to use our tenant associations and our parent-teacher associations and our public schools as networks of defense in support of Saran's agenda and in support of our neighbors.