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Housing & Tenant Campaign
Housing & Tenant Campaign
The current landscape within the Paterson community reflects a dismal reality--that corporate interests are put before the residents of Paterson, and that ultimately, business interests are protected. This is abundantly clear within the Fourth Ward of Paterson, where residents are subject to slumlord rental conditions often from redevelopment agencies or outside corporate interests.
Silk City is dedicated to organizing tenants across the city around their housing issues, and utilizing collective action to address them. We teach our community members tactics that enforce their power as shareholders within the Paterson community.
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Community wins
Community wins
Silk City Socialists' primary focus in the Housing Campaign is to continuously assist and encourage tenants to build their power. Paterson community members are the true experts on what their community needs, and are capable of setting the terms of their standard of living-- including the accessibility and affordability of housing. To read more about tenants flexing their power with the support of Silk City Socialists, see below.
The Chain Family
The Chain Family
"We Ain't Walking In This Battle For Nothing..."
Shay Chain on the fight to better living conditions within the Fourth Ward of Paterson, NJ.
Shay is a member of Silk City Socialists, and has been personally dealing with slumlord re-developers Novus Equities, who have failed to adequately maintain their apartments. In his own home he has been forced to deal with faulty plumbing, electrical fires, mold, and break-ins.
Only through direct action and community organizing can we take back our homes and drive out the slumlords who are trying to wipe out our neighborhoods.
LASHANNA
LASHANNA
Lashanna is a single mother living in Paterson, NJ with her two young children, and her elderly aunt. She had routinely reached out to her landlord, a Paterson police officer, about repairs needing to be made, and would constantly get ignored, dismissed, or inconsistent replies. When repairs were made, they were shoddy, half-complete jobs, often utilizing stained or broken materials from previous apartments. Lashanna, her aunt Denise, and Silk City delivered a letter of demands to her landlord's management office S&D Management, Inc. in August 2017.
Through this collective action, repairs were made to Lashanna's apartment within the span of two weeks.
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