Owen Lavine

Owen is an up-and-coming investigative reporter from the West Coast who has interned at the Daily Beast and contributed to a Brooklyn blog news site.

Jacob Riis tenants’ 20 year fight for clean water and NYCHA accountability

Tenants and organizers gathered outside City Hall the morning of Feb. 26 ahead of a hearing on NYCHA’s Permanent Affordability Commitment Together Rental Assistance Demonstration Program (PACT-RAD) program. Around 100 of them, under the banner of Save Section 9, which is fighting “gentrification, displacement and privatization” of public housing across the country. The program converts

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