SBS describes outreach to public housing and immigrant communities
Dynishal Gross says SBS prioritized outreach in Black, brown, and immigrant communities, including public housing areas in Staten Island, Queens, and Brooklyn. She says SBS canvassed over 1,800 businesses, including street vendors.
Thank you, Councilmember, for your question.
So at SBS, we were the outreach arm for the city's efforts to promote and ensure that small businesses were getting connected to all of the promotional opportunities that were being unlocked through either the host committee.
So did you do any outreach to Michigan?
We did outreach.
We prioritized outreach in black and brown communities and immigrant communities.
We were in Jackson Heights, in Port Richmond, in Harlem.
We went to Jamaica, Almers.
We went to so many different communities in the outer boroughs, in neighborhoods where we know, especially for the immigrant-owned.
community concentrations, the threats from the non-local law enforcement had created a...
But I'm specifically talking about public housing.
Yes, so including...
So I just want you to...
...Public housing in North Shore, Staten Island, in Queens, in Brooklyn.
Okay.
We visited, and collectively across all of those efforts, we reached over 1,800 businesses that we canvassed, including street vendors.
Okay.