publish.nyc.indymedia.org | Images from Tenants Rally for Affordable Housing

Tenants and allies from across New York City gathered in Harlem on a rainy Wednesday, October 1 to demand “Real Rent Reform” amid the housing crisis. October 1 was Day 1 of new rent hikes for over 1 million rent stabilized apartments, at a time when New Yorkers face rising prices, falling wages, cutbacks and layoffs. Tenant activists came with 4 demands: Reinstate Home Rule over Rent & Eviction Rules. Repeal Vacancy Decontrol. Reform the Rent Guidelines Board. Save Affordable Housing in the Mitchell-Lama and Section 8 Projects.

I really don’t know what’s going to happen to working-poor and middle class people all over this country. Where are they all going to go once they can’t afford to live where they are now?