Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 , Time: 9:30 am-11:00 am, Location: ZOOM.US

SUMMARY

This meeting’s topics:  We’re meeting with Rose Roach, National Coordinator, Labor Campaign for Single Payer. And we’re continuing to discuss the cities development policies: NYCHA (Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Housing), Penn Area and Through-Running with RethinkNYC, Sam Turvey. We’ll have some updates from Humanist and Educator Rob Robinson, and others from our network. Ray Rogers, Activist for Corporate Campaign to end the Stock Transfer Tax Rebate will also update us on their efforts. We have two great add-ons: Paul Graziano, Save 1 Family NY, who will discuss the City Of Yes, and Melanie D’Arrigo NYHcampaign.org, who will discuss their efforts for a single payer.

CHAIR: John Mudd

WELCOME / INTRODUCTIONS

We appreciate all suggestions to help us run this meeting proficiently.

• Housekeeping (Zoom protocols) copying chat, muting, etc.
  • Signing in: Please sign in with your name and organization
• Please email subject and speaker suggestions by the 15th of each month
• Items to Triage: To give time to pressing topics, please forward items at least 24 hours prior to meetings
• Introductions, welcoming new and old members (keeping it short and sweet)
• Need someone to summarize actions and followup

PURPOSE

The Homeless and Housing members, attendees, and speakers share knowledge, ideas, and resources to identify problems and find solutions to the homeless and housing crisis.

5 min

POLICY MEETING UPDATES

The prior 8:30 Homeless and Housing Policy meeting wrap-up as presented by attending members.

2 min

COUNCIL HIGHLIGHTS

Council’s progress report on actions and initiatives.

• Farms!
• Web
• Need Board and committee members (funding & Finance, Street Sheets)
• Other

3 min

SPECIAL INTRODUCTION(S) AND OR UPDATES: 

The below list of intros and updates should be brief; everyone is welcomed to present for a lengthier discussion at a planned date

• Elected officials/agencies—updates
• Alex Yong, WSNA NYC, Member of the End Apartment Warehousing Coalition
• Rob Robinson, Updates
• Paul Graziano, Save 1 Family NY
• Melanie D’Arrigo NYHcampaign.org
• Others
• New attending members?

5 min

STOCK TRANSFER TAX

• Overview
• Actions

Speaker(s): Ray Rogers, Activist for Corporate Campaign to end the Stock Transfer Tax Rebate

10 min

LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER

Single Payer and the importance of labor relations

Speakers: Rose Roach, National Coordinator, Labor Campaign for Single Payer

15 min

THROUGH-RUNNING

What is Through-Running and the importance of an independent review and to our development

Speakers: Sam Turvey, Advocate, Attorney, And Visionary

10 min

NYCHA

NYCHA’s board is working with Related Companies to demolish people’s homes, displace residents, take green spaces, end the section 9, continue to the 30% cost burdening rents, add additional fees, and more.

• Overview
• Action Suggestions
• See the agenda summary here
• See the board meeting here 

Speakers: TBD

10 min

NYC POOR DEVELOPMENT POLICIES: CITY OF YES, DEMOLITION OF NYCHA, MIDTOWN UPZONING, 

Summations of The City of Yes, Related and NYCHA deal and interest to Demolish Elliot Chelsea and Fulton Houses, Midtown Manhattan up-zoning, and Open New York’s lobbying efforts and efforts to capture the community boards to support the overdevelopment of this city to serve the wealthy and widen the inequality gap.

• Overview (hearings, meetings, policies)
• Summary of likely Outcomes
• Extracting any value and added value to reshape city and communities
• Next steps

Speakers: TBA

10 min

PUBLIC CONCERNS

• Immediate needs?

8 min

ACTIONS

• Summary
• Additional Requests
  • Letter writing campaign, press releases

2 min

ANNOUNCEMENTS / EVENTS

• Additional announcements from new attendees, committee members, elected officials, others 
• Last words?

2 min

DEVELOPING INITIATIVES & PROGRAMS

• One Stop Shop
• Hurt Committee
• Objectives/Mission/Vision: MSCC is busily restructuring to become more effective in accomplishing its goals and making plans for the coming new year to complete their:
  • Mission: Midtown South Community Council strives to dismantle the causes of homelessness by building an equitable, just, and sustainable social infrastructure to ensure dignity, health, and home for all. 
  • Vision: Midtown South Community Council envisions a city where homelessness and poverty are eradicated
• Committees: Managing our overwhelming tasks together with our intersecting network. If anyone wants to be involved with building committees to serve programs and projects of mutual interests (Housing, Urban Farming, Education & Awareness, healthcare, incarceration, workshops, health access, Home Improvement, communications/social media messaging, Midtown Street Sheets…), please let us know
• Street Sheets

4 min

AOB

• Topic Suggests:
  • • Illusion of Choice: How Source of Income Discrimination and Voucher Policies Perpetuate Housing Inequality, UnlockNYC
    • Department of Building’s Office of Tenant Advocate (OTA) advocates for tenant against obtrusive or illegal construction within multi unit residential buildings. Speaker(s): Rakell Washington & Ana Pluchinatta
    • Charisma White (MSCC), what does deeply affordable housing mean
    • Network marketing and communications committee (suggestion)
    • Planning committee with Mount Sinai about their unused wings (suggested)
    • Common Point’s services
    • Prison to shelter and back again
    • Policing the problem away; 50% of the Riker’s Island jail population are mentally ill
• Speaker Suggestions: All suggestions are welcomed
• New Members: Thank you for joining, feel free to tell us your needs, schedule a presentation, and connect with anyone within this network
• NEXT Meeting Homeless and Housing Meeting: 9:30 AM Tuesday, January 7, 2024
  • • Always the 1^st Tuesday of every month

2 min

Contact hello@midtownsouthcc.org or john.mudd@usa.net for more information and Zoom invitations.

ADDENDUM: SPEAKER BIO

Rose Roach bio

Rose Roach is the National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Chair of Healthcare for All Minnesota.  Ms. Roach retired in 2023 as the Executive Director of the MN Nurses Association after working in the labor movement for 34 years.  For more than two decades, Ms. Roach has been involved in the healthcare justice movement, both as a national speaker and trainer. She served on Governor Mark Dayton’s Healthcare Financing Task Force as well as Attorney General, Keith Ellison’s, Lowering Pharmaceutical Costs Task Force. In 2016 and 2020, Ms. Roach was recognized as one of the MN Physician’s Magazine quadrennials, top100 leaders in healthcare, was the first recipient of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s Women’s Trailblazer award this past February and received the 2019 DFL’s Paul Wellstone Lifetime Commitment to Organized Labor award.