Action at Bloomberg Campaign Headquarters
Public Housing | Releases
This afternoon, about 30 Community Voices Heard members held an action outside of Bloomberg's campaign office to demand that he restore full funding for public housing in this year's budget and end unpaid workfare positions by expanding paid transitional jobs. In his campaign advertisements, he claims to represent "real New Yorkers." But instead of including $30 million for public housing in this year's budget, he spent about that much money, $26 million, on a new scoreboard for Yankee Stadium. Instead of creating more paid transitional jobs for public assistance recipients who are currently required to work full time for free in the Human Resource Administration's Work Experience Program (WEP), he allocated $45 million to help retrain Wall Street workers. At our action, CVH members ripped up Bloomberg's campaign mailings they have been receiving to let him know that low-income residents ARE real New Yorkers and if he claims to represent us, he needs to do what our communities need!

