Ms. Eves says PACT tenants face retaliation, eviction, and loss of Section 9 rights
Ms. Eves says the PACT/RAD process has divided tenants and exhausted her, and that complaining to agencies leads to retaliation. She says she has been labeled a chronic complainer, is being evicted, and believes PAC/RAD is designed to remove residents from Section 9 protections.
I'm kind of loud, so that's why I don't want to.
No, no, no.
We want to hear you.
So far.
Truth be told, this pack ride has been very, very exhausting.
There's a lot of division between the tenants.
A lot of the tenants was for it because what they focused on was just
the repairs and they received the funding, they put the cart before the horse, but we're still at the same place where we started.
When tenants complain through Department of Buildings, HPD,
the mayor's office, your office, the other politicians, what they do is they retaliate against you.
And for me, I think because I've been so vocal,
To the point.
They label me as being disturbed, as being a chronic complainer,
as to the point where I'm unable to speak at my own tenant association meetings, where all they do is just keep...
Switching out managers and lying to the tenants and saying to the tenants that it's underneath new management and it's not.
I, too, am in the process of being evicted for something that I stood firm on.
And what I'm saying is...
You have an additional minute.
We keep coming to these meetings.
I haven't been here in a while is because they keep me busy in court.
To try to explain what's happening.
To me, this pack rad is designed
to get rid of us.
When I say that is because the same way that they keep saying that Pac-Rad is ironclad, they used this as a way to say that it's for repairs.
No, it was designed
to remove people under Section 9 because Section 9 is ironclad on tenants'rights and our rights are being taken away.
And it's so unfair.
It's so unfair.
I fell down the stairs 15 times.
It's impeding myself.
I need to go back to work too.
Just like they're here.
I don't even know if I won't be able to walk by next year.
I have no health insurance because I cannot go back to work.
There's a division to the point that they're after my aunt, my daughter.
They want me gone because everything that I said that was going to happen, happened.
Thank God that...
One of your staff members was there where this new manager had stated that CNC did not do what they were contractually to do with the plumbing, with the electrical.
They're blaming the tenants for things that they did not do.
There is a high rate of eviction under this PAC rat.
Read the controller audit again.
Now it's underneath the new controller, Mark Levine.
There's a high, high turnout on holdovers.
Okay.
Eve, thank you.
Thank you for your testimony.
And we're going to move on to Ms.
Sophia Fenn.