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Articles by Alicka Ampry-Samuel
Airbnb limits hurt lower income folks
I know the difficulties New Yorkers face. I was born in Brownsville, one of the lowest income neighborhoods in New York City. Because I grew up watching my neighbors struggle to put food on the table and make rent each month, I vowed to live my life in service to making our great city more affordable for all New Yorkers. I won my first New York City Council race on the promise to address affordable housing.
How Black New Yorkers Are Saving NYC, And Why Our Economy Must Reflect That - Blavity
Photo Credit: Getty Images If you’re interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more. ____ When COVID-19 ripped through New York City, Black New Yorkers were hit the hardest. Yet, many of us kept the city functioning when so many others fled. We reckoned with the trauma and carried on with dignity.
Want a real recovery? Start with fair hiring
The 2008 Great Recession led to an economic rebound that largely benefited the rich. With the economic devastation from COVID-19 hitting non-salaried workers the most, state and federal legislators need to guide this recovery so that it doesn’t follow the same pattern as a decade ago. In New York City, we are working to chart a new course that will help ensure companies avoid discriminatory hiring practices.
Take aim at the black-white wealth gap
The history of injustice towards African Americans in the United States is deeply rooted in our country’s history and its founding. While a significant part of this injustice is easy to see, many times wrongs go unnoticed in mundane, everyday interactions that happen in the nooks and crannies of society.
New York must ensure communities punished for marijuana now benefit from legalization
It seems like every elected official in New York is seeing green. In announcing his top priorities for the spring this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared that the state should “legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana once and for all.” While this commitment is crucial, it’s beginning to feel like the conversation is excluding the people who have been hurt the most by our state’s unfair and racist drug policies: communities of color.
CityViews: AbolishNYCHA? No Way!
Adi TalwarNYCHA's LaGuardia Houses in the lower East side section of Manhattan. Years of mismanagement and chronic under investment coming to bear. Crumbling infrastructure becoming harder and harder to ignore. If the challenges the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is facing now sound familiar, it’s because we’ve been through this before. It was only a few short months ago that the MTA was facing down a similar set of circumstances.
NYCHA’s truth deficit
We know, thanks to investigative reports that emerged last month, that the New York City Housing Authority has $32 billion in unmet capital needs. That’s a huge problem not entirely of the authority’s own making: The decline of federal and state support for aging public housing is responsible for much of this gap. But one area where NYCHA has been consistently bankrupt is an area that doesn’t require a dime of funding: the truth.
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