Low-income residents of Yonkers who are also members of Community Voices Heard will guide State Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins on a day living in poverty this Thursday, July 12th. Residents will first take the Senator to the Yonkers Department of Social Services (DSS) office to offer her a glimpse of the service and treatment they receive there. Next they will go to a Public Housing development to show her some of the conditions they must endure and to stress the importance of saving and preserving low-income housing. This will be followed by a stop at Chicken Island, the proposed site of a large scale development project. Here residents will stress the importance of community input in the development process. Finally, residents will end the day with a meeting to propose solutions to the problems to which the Senator has been exposed.
