| Join Sen Eric Adams and demand stronger rent laws CALL GOV CUOMO TODAY: 212-681-4580 Tell him renters need his support! Urge him to renew the rent laws and repeal vacancy destabilization Sign the on line petition at: https://www.change.org/petitions/governor-cuomo-keep-your-promise |
| Celebrate Earth Day with the Young Friends of PACC The Pratt Area Community Council (PACC) invites you to join them for the third annual PACC Earth Day gardening event. After the gardening event, you'll have a chance to tour neighboring PACC affordable rental buildings. Saturday, April 23, 2011 9:30am - 1pm (Rain Date 4/30) 2 Spencer Pl. at the c/o of Hancock St. Bklyn To RSVP, call 718.522.2613 ext. 28 |
| Funding Historic Restorations visit their website for more information |
Thursday November 12, 2009 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
22 Linden Blvd (near the corner of Flatbush Ave.)
Brooklyn, New York 11226
Learn ways to save money on your energy bills. Learn about energy saving tips, repairs and home improvement options: Free giveaways.
Sponsored by Neighborhood Housing Services of East Flatbush, a not for profit housing organization.
Website: http://www.nhsnyc.org
To RSVP, call 718-469-4679
Hosted by Councilmember Darlene Mealy |
CB8 full board meeting
Thursday Feb. 12 7:00 pm at the Brooklyn Children's Museum
145 Brooklyn Ave. near St. Marks
On Monday evening CB 8's housing committee voted 9 to 1 to recommend the approval by the full board of the change of use of the Peter Young facility on Pacific St. (across from the Bed/Atlantic Armory.) The Peter Young facility is the homeless men's shelter that DHS is closing in conjunction with their plan to add an intake center to the assessment center at the Bed/Atlantic armory. The proposal the housing committee voted for is to now make the Peter Young facility a 28 day residential drug rehab. CB8 has a moratorium on new residential facilities. However, they approved this when the Peter Young group said that 90% of the people they will serve will be residents of this community. The full board will be voting on this on 2/12/09
HOME MAINTENANCE & REPAIR COURSE
Winter/Spring 2009 SessionSponsored by
Neighborhood Housing Services of East Flatbush
A not for profit organization serving the community since 1982.
Don’t rely on contractors.
Built it!Fix it!Do it yourself!
The Open House: Thursday Feb. 5th, 6:30pm
The ten-week course starts
Monday Feb. 9th & Wednesday Feb. 11th, 6pm-9pm.
For more info., please call: (718) 469-4679
Neighborhood Housing Services of East
will be hosting a Home Maintenance Workshop.
The focus will be on Energy Savings and Winter Preparation.
Thursday October 16th, 6pm.
Location: 2806 Church Ave.
(bet. Nostrand & Rogers Aves.) Brooklyn, NY.
To RSVP, call Tyrone McDonald at 718.469.4679.
NHS of East Flatbush
2806 Church Ave.Brooklyn, NY 11226
tel: 718.469.4679 ext. 8014
fax:718.469.4743
The Energy Crisis Creates Green Jobs
On September 12 in lower Manhattan the Center for Working Families (CWF) conducted a two hour policy briefing entitled Green Jobs/Green Homes. At the briefing, speakers from a variety of agencies presented to a crowd of over 100 of elected officials and their staffs a proposal to create jobs by greening the homes of New York City. Emmaia Gelman, senior policy organizer for the CWF stated that retrofitting a single family house in New York could cost approximately $3,000 and yield annual energy savings of $750. Thus the cost of the retrofit could be paid back in 5 years.
It is this reality that drives the CWF proposal to retrofit 1,000,000 homes and create 30,000 green jobs in five years. CWF is a policy institute created in 2006 by a consortium of local unions and non-profit activists to provide elected officials with broad-based and innovative proposals addressing important local issues. To achieve its green job goal CWF proposes using the resources of various New York State agencies such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA), NYS Dept. of Labor, NYS Power Authority, NYS Dormitory Authority, Long Island Power Authority and other agencies.
Under the CWF proposal, a New York state retrofit program would relieve home owners of the
up-front cost by creating an investment pool to fund retrofits. The savings on the retrofits would be used to repay the investment fund for the costs of the work. Key components of the proposal include:
NYS utilities Con Ed and National Grid would collect the monies to repay the fund as part of their monthly utility bills to home owners, relieving the investment fund of billing and collection obligations. It is well-known that utility bills are among the first bills home owners pay each month and that utilities experience very low default rates.
All retrofits would be conducted by NYSERDA trained and approved energy contractors, guaranteeing a high quality of workmanship and ensuring that the energy savings would occur.
Labor union tradesmen would work with contractors in the field to ensure that workers were properly trained and the work properly performed.
Savings would be under-estimated to ensure that repayment monies were available. For
example, if a home owner’s utility bills were $300 per month before the retrofit, he would only be asked for pay $290 per month after the retrofit. Part of this monthly payment would cover the cost of gas and electric charges and part would repay the retrofit loan.
Around Thanksgiving the CFW plans to issue a White Paper that will provide more details about how the proposed plan would work. Ms. Gelman hopes that when the State legislature reconvenes in January, this White Paper will form the basis of enabling legislation to make this proposal a reality.
Be sure to tell your elected officials to support this exciting project.
NYS Assemblyman Karim Camara - 718-756-1776. central Crown Heights
NYS Assemblywoman Annette Robinson - 718-399-7630 East Crown Heights
NYS Assemblyman Hakim Jeffries - 718-596-0100 west Crown Heights
NYS Senator Eric Adams - (718) 284-4700.
Give them a call today!
October 1: Citywide Tenant Demonstration
Next Wednesday, October 1st, the Real Rent Reform Campaign and hundreds of tenants will rally on the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building Plaza, starting at 5:30 pm, to protest attacks on affordable housing and demand real improvements to New York housing. I strongly encourage you to attend!
October 1st is the day the unjust rent increases approved by the Rent Guidelines Board take effect. If you represent rent-regulated tenants or are yourself a rent-regulated tenant and are worried about what high rents will mean for you and your community, please join tenants from across New York for a massive demonstration against these unfair increases. In addition to protesting the hikes we are calling for a legislative reform of the RGB. The rally will be held in the plaza in front of the Harlem State Office Building at 163 W. 125th Street (at Adam Clayton Powell Blvd) at 5:30 p.m. For more information or to officially endorse the rally, email me at the NYIC or contact Andrés Mares-Muro at Andres@tandn.org or call at 212-608-4320 ext. 316.
How can you get involved?
■ Join R3 for a press conference on 10/1 at Noon on City Hall Steps
■ Attend the rally and bring your friends, kids, coworkers and neighbors!
■ Spread the word: Forward information to everyone you know and join us for a phone-banking
and poster making party on Sunday September 28th starting at 5pm at Housing Conservation
Coordinators, 777 10th Ave. Please RSVP to Lucas Shapiro at (212) 716-1664 or
LShapiro@hcc-nyc.org
■ Buy an R3 T-shirt and help defray the cost of this effort. For more information about T-shirts,
the rally or the campaign email me at the NYIC or Andres at Tenants and Neighbors
Andres@tandn.org.
To support the New York Immigration Coalition, please visit http://www.thenyic.org/ (or click here).
137-139 West 25th. St., 12th Floor
New York, New York 10001
212-627-2227
http://www.thenyic.org/
| The New York City Hall of Fame, a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit organization who “honors remarkable New Yorkers who have contributed to the betterment of our city and will in turn serve as role models for our children” is in need of temporary space until the completion of its museum. The NYC Hall of Fame is looking for someone to donate or rent at a very discounted rate approx. 2000-3000 sq. ft. of space. Please pass this along to anyone who may be able to help and contact the NYC Hall of Fame President Albert Stern at 718.359.4564 or astern@infonychalloffame.org. |
Neighborhood Housing Services will provide: |
