Campaign Updates

Dear Metro IAF NY - Queens Power, East Brooklyn  Congregations, and Manhattan Together, 

We want to celebrate your commitment to meet, work, organize and fight that has led to a BIG WIN at Creedmoor. This is just the beginning of our fight for publicly owned sites to confront the affordability crisis. The audacity, imagination and leadership of each one of us who did the individual meetings, house meetings and public actions has led to this huge opportunity for all New Yorkers. 

Together, we have organized as Metro IAF NY to demand 100% affordable housing with homeownership opportunities at Creedmoor. This week’s announcement of the Creedmoor Community Master Plan was a monumental moment and historic win for our city and New Yorkers that make our great city run each and every day! 

We commend Governor Hochul’s first steps through the Creedmoor plan, which includes a plan to build more than 2,800 units with: 

● 1633 units of homeownership “heavily targeted” to households earning up to 100% Area Median Income* 

● 377 units of affordable senior housing, 431 units of supportive housing 

● 432 units of affordable rental housing (no age restrictions) 

*100% AMI for family of 2 = $113,000, family of 3 = $127,100, family of

4 = $141,200 

This win came from sheer pressure. Because of your organizing, you helped shape the terms of this plan. We teach - there is the power to get to the table, power to make a deal, and power to keep the deal. While this plan is a significant win, we must continue to organize our power to keep the deal, ensuring the plan is fully implemented and Creedmoor is 100% affordable. We will stay at the table to work to fast-track the first phase and secure further agreements on additional phases – affordability levels, number of units, timeline for each, etc. 

Let us continue to fight together to set the direction for NYC to use Public Land for Public Good. The next site is Kingsboro Psychiatric Hospital in East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. 

Thank you all for your continued commitment and support. The journey continues but we have shown that together we can enact change for our community, generation, and future generations! 

Onward and Upward! 

Rev. Dr. David Brawley, Metro IAF Co Chair 

Rev. Patrick O’ Connor, Queens Power Co Chair Ben Thomases, Queens Power Co Chair 

Rev. Dr. Adolphus Lacey, EBC Co Chair 

Joanne Kennedy, Manhattan Together Co Chair Rev. Getulio Cruz, Manhattan Together Co Chair