(MSCC) John Mudd, Event Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022
SUMMARY
Today’s meeting agenda is with an emphasis on Direct contracting entities: Handing medicare over to Wall Street. We’ll have updates on the Empire Station Complex Development, Adaptive Reuse: Hotels to Housing initiatives, developing committees, partner commitments, and more.
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Time: 9:30 am-10:30 am
Location: We will meet via video conference using ZOOM.US (See how to Zoom page. 3)
Chairperson(s): John Mudd
WELCOME / INTRODUCTIONS
We appreciate all suggestions to help us run this meeting proficiently.
PURPOSE
The Homeless and Housing members, attendees, and speakers share knowledge, ideas, and resources to identify problems and find solutions to the homeless crisis.
10 min
POLICY MEETING UPDATES
The prior 8:30 Homeless and Housing Policy meeting wrap-up as presented by attending members.
5 min
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION(S) AND OR UPDATES:
10 min
HEALTHCARE: MEDICARE VS MANAGECARE
Direct contracting entities: Handing medicare over to Wall Street
Claire Cohen, M.D., Physicians for a Nation Health Program
10-15 min
ADAPTIVE REUSE: HOTELS TO HOUSING
Ted Houghton, President of Gateway Housing
3 min
RALLY HIGHLIGHTING THE INEQUITIES & BAD POLICIES
Locations: Midtown near Port Authority, Hudson Yards, NYCHA, Penn Station
2 min
EMPIRE STATION DEVELOPMENT (ESD)
Quick take: ESD/Vornado furthering inequality and poor living conditions through development.
Layla Law-Gisiko, CB5, Chair of the Land-use Committee
5 min
OBJECTIVES / MISSION / VISION FOR THE NEW YEAR
MSCC is busily restructuring to become more effective in accomplishing its goals and planning for the new year:
3 min
LANDLORD TENANT ISSUES
Jeff Seal’s New York’s Worst Landlord viral video have been viewed by millions, Vimeo Staff Picks, screened at international film festivals and have been featured on numerous TV clip shows around the world reveals the tenant struggles with landlords.
2 min
COMMITTEES
Committees are important to complete our mission. Anyone wanting to be involved with any of our committees serving our programs (Housing, Urban Farm, Education & Awareness, etc.) and projects (communications, Medicare, Medicaid, Managed Care, health care enrollment, workshop development, Midtown Street Sheets, etc.) and more, please let us know.
2 min
MSCC’s HEALTHCARE ACCESS & COORDINATION FOR NYC HOMELESS REPORT
Prioritizing and achieving our mandate: Medical respite beds, street medicine, hospital adjacent shelters, combating nimby, housing clinical coordinator, insurance (medicare) enrollment, record sharing, and housing
3 min
MEDICARE, MEDICAID VS MANAGED CARE
Medicare enrollment is a prioritized solution to resolving Homelessness in our Healthcare Access & Coordination for NYC Homeless report
Maribel Ruiz, Nancy Pascal, Maya Contreras, Jennifer Mallicote , Sonya D, Nancy Young, Joycelyn Taylor
3 min
PUBLIC CONCERNS
7 min
ACTION LIST
3 min
PROGRAM UPDATES
2 min
ANNOUNCEMENTS / EVENTS
3 min
AOB
2 min
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ADDENDUM A: DEFINING HOUSING
DEFINING HOUSING
When advocating for housing rights with a focus on community, the below items are considered:
ADDENDUM B: Bio of Claire M. Cohen, M.D.
Dr. Claire Cohen is an African American child and adolescent psychiatrist who has been practicing in the Pittsburgh since 1984. She grew up in Philadelphia, PA where she attended Hahnemann Medical College (now Drexel University Medical School) and did her General Psychiatry Residency at the University of Chicago. She then moved to Pittsburgh to do her Child and Adolescent Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh’s Western Psychiatric Institute. She fell in love with Western Pennsylvania and has practiced here ever since. She has worked in a variety of settings, including community mental health clinics, partial hospitals, school- based settings and, currently, an inpatient hospital setting.
In addition to her career, Dr. Cohen has always been very active in her community. In the late 1980s, she was involved in supporting the strike of the Pittston coal miners. In the 1990s, she was a member of the group that fought to get a Civilian Police Review Board in Pittsburgh. More recently she has been involved in efforts to stop the school-to-prison pipeline on the Pittsburgh Public Schools , a founding member of the Pittsburgh Green New Deal, on the advisory board of the Pittsburgh Black Workers Center and is fighting for Medicare For All as a member of Physicians For A National Health Program, the Western PA Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare, and National Single Payer. She is also on the Medicare 4 All Committee of Democratic Socialists of America.
ADDENDUM C: LEGISLATION ACTIVISM
Alex HS Yong, WESNA Member, reports:
It’s my pleasure to share info. As I told Natalie, legislation is now my favorite part of activism. Here are some we like…
ADDENDUM D: PHYSICIANS ADVOCACY NYC
Physicians Advocacy NYC are responding to the Mayor’s Subway Safety Plan so far, if you have thoughts, please forward. They’ll shop it around for signatures soon.
There’s also a housing advocacy day in Albany 3/9 if you want to sign up, let Betty know bettykolod@gmail.com.
ADDENDUM E: PARENTS TO IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION
Sara Catalinotto, Parents to Improve School Transportation
https://www.facebook.com/groups/pistnyc/
http://pistnyc.org/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/pistnyc/
https://twitter.com/pistnyc
2/4/22 Campaign Talking Points
As IPV survivors, my child and I know what it’s like to navigate the NYC shelter system.
We experienced firsthand the inequities of this shattered system. Which is not accesible at all to students with different abilities & their families. Students in temporary housing, particularly students with different abilities in temporary housing are at a greater disadvantage from the start, than the rest of their peers. Pupil transportation is many times not attainable for them due to procedural roadblocks and prevalent bureaucratic measures. Leaving these students and their families stuck in a wormhole of bureaucracy. Students in temporary housing miss much needed instruction and services due to transportation inequality, compared to their peers. Students with disabilities suffer a higher cost, since without their related services and due to lack of instruction, they regress months and even years of learning, compared to their neurotypical peers. All this, in violation of IDEA.
We know first hand what it’s like to not receive a bus route for weeks on end due to a lack of a simple address change.
We know what it’s like to have to travel long distances in frigid temperatures by train and bus to and from a specialized program, but not have enough cents for the fare back.
We understand what it feels like to only be provided two way metro cards each day regardless of the student’s travel needs.
We know what it’s like to be kicked out of a DV shelter at night as retaliation for having the audacity to request a 7-day unlimited metro card.
The temporary housing system in NYC is broken, and deteriorating even more. We were some of the privileged ones. There are a lot of families out there today who are facing greater odds than we ever did.
Transportation is a human and civil right for students in temporary housing, for students with different abilities, and for all students!
-Maggie Sanchez