Keep Public Housing Public! “A Home Worth Fighting For” Screening + Panel

Join filmmaker Natasha Florentino for a film screening of “A Home Worth Fighting For: The Push to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing in Chelsea.” The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with community leaders and scholars about the privatization of public housing.

Panelists:

• Renee Keitt, President, Elliott-Chelsea RA/FEC Tenants Against Demolition
• Marquis Jenkins, District Leader, NYS Assembly District 74;
• James Rodriguez, Public housing scholar; Assistant Professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

This event is part of “Dismantling Disinvestment – FEC Houses,” a participatory action research project coordinated by Associate Professor Caitlin Cahill, and supported by a Pratt Center for Community Development Taconic Fellowship grant.

This event is open to the public.