"We’re demanding that we not return to the world we lived in pre-Covid —
a world with 92,000 homeless New Yorkers and millions of people living
just one paycheck away from an eviction.”
--Cea Weaver, Housing Justice for All
"I have hardly any money left once my rent is deducted from my salary.
I sometimes have to teach adjunct at other universities, in addition to my
tenured position, to make ends meet. And I am still not always able to do it."
--NYU Faculty, Housing Justice Survey Response
TENANTS SPEAK
Faculty take on adjunct positions, are unable to pay off student loans, and struggle to make ends meet while paying for childcare. Due to COVID-19 many of our colleagues' partners have lost jobs. Many are caring, financially and otherwise, for affected family and kin. Increased financial burdens will fall unevenly on faculty of color, immigrant faculty, and women-namely, on those same faculty NYU has actively recruited through diversity hires. This will all be compounded by the upcoming 9.3% rent increase and the freezing of AMI raises.
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"I am appalled by the construction situation, both at 181 Mercer and the co-generator plant on W. 3rd St. From the early morning (often pre-8am) deafening noise to the crews' often obvious indifference to safety precautions during the pandemic (absence of masks and flaunting of physical...WHY 3-YEAR INCREASES?
While annual rent increases would be less costly for tenants, NYU extracts extra profits by using three-year increases. Download this spreadsheet to see how much they make from these increases on a 2k/month apartment and use the spreadsheet to see how much they profit from your rent increase.
RENT STRIKE SOLIDARITY
Tenant Land Acknowledgement & Demands
We acknowledge that the housing we live in sits on the occupied lands of Lenni Lenape peoples. While it may be owned by NYU it does not belong to them or to us, because no land is truly private. This acknowledgment leads us to demand that all currently unoccupied housing at NYU and NYU-owned properties should be immediately opened to our neighbors in need of housing. In addition, we demand that NYU President Andrew Hamilton, Provost Katy Fleming, and the NYU Board of Trustees invite proposals from Indigenous groups and organizations in the NYC area regarding the just and dignified redistribution and reclamation of land and property currently occupied by NYU.
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