Thirty to forty million people maybe thrown out of their homes by evictions in the next 6 months in the midst of the greatest pandemic in 100 years.
New York Tenant's lawyer Mimi Rosenberg is with Legal Aid in Brooklyn and with Association of Legal Aid Attorneys UAW Local 2325 and also is co-host of WBAI Building Bridges. She discusses the history of public housing and gentrification in New York as well as the conditions of tenants in this crisis.
She reports that the Democratic politicians including in NY have helped criminalize the poor, Blacks and Browns and privatize the housing stock to profit developers. President Trump was one of the developers according to Rosenberg who was also helped by these New York politicians.
This interview was done on 10/16/20 by WorkWeek host Steve Zeltzer.
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