Dias y Flores Community Garden 5/23/2007

From Dias y Flores Community Garden:

New York is Our Home: Rally for Affordable Housing

Via the New York is Our Home! blog:

You’re invited - RSVP today! Meet May 23rd between 14th and 23rd Street on 1st Avenue in Manhattan at 5pm sharp. RSVP online or contact Chloe Tribich for more information. Here’s the rally flier in English (pdf) and en Espanol (pdf) - download it and pass it out in your building!

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
May 23rd Affordable Housing Rally - RSVP Today!

What: “Hands Around Stuy Town” Affordable Housing March and Rally.

Why: Because rent is out of control, and New York Is Our Home!

When: Wednesday, May 23rd, at 5pm sharp

Where: Stuyvesant Town between 14th and 23rd Street on 1st Avenue in Manhattan

Who: You and 6,0007,000 other New Yorkers who care about affordable housing and are willing to stand up and be counted.

How: RSVP today!

Always complaining about the cost of housing in New York? Do something about it. An unprecedented coalition including the Working Families Party, labor unions, and nearly every housing organization in New York City and led by Housing Here and Now has united to form New York is Our Home.

We’re launching a massive, grassroots campaign to break the logjam in Albany and protect our homes. And we’re kicking things off with a rally and march at Stuy Town on May 23rd.

We’re holding the rally at Stuy Town, but it’s a rally for all New Yorkers. It’s a rally about the threat to Starrett City. It’s about the nearly 1.5 million existing affordable units we’re at risk of losing. It’s about what’s happening to housing prices all over New York City and the rising price of housing that we’re all struggling with.

Will New York City be taken over by luxury condos? New York Is Our Home believes in a New York City in which working families have just as much right to live as hedge fund managers. This is your chance to stand up and be counted.