Our Housing Protest In The News
- Equity Team
- Dec 15, 2025
- 2 min read
Last week, our campaign’s leadership on affordable housing was featured in the Amsterdam News. James Felton Keith (JFK) has been on the front lines of the ongoing protest for truly affordable housing in Harlem and throughout NY-13. These protests aren’t symbolic — they helped turn market-rate developments into deeply affordable homes for working families earning between $15,000 and $70,000.
Across the district, we face an urgent housing crisis. We need at least 10,000 new affordable units just in NY-13. Too many local officials have prioritized luxury market-rate buildings that displace long-time residents. JFK’s approach is different: build sustainable housing that working people can actually afford, and pair it with a commonsense plan to raise incomes.
JFK has worked with government, academic, and community partners to draft solutions that get buy-in from all stakeholders and deliver real equity. Our platform shows how to build — and keep — affordable homes so they serve working families for the long term.
Many of these sites need to be rezoned and have to engaged multiple city state and federal stakeholders, and that is the reason that James Felton Keith is the right person for the job. He has worked between government, academic, and corpoarte world to draft solutions that garner both buy-in and fost equity for the community in need. Right now we need 10,000 new affordable units in this district alone, to do our part to reach the goal of Affordability across the city.
Watch the video on Project One45 — the development at the center of our protest — and see why this issue matters for every New Yorker.
We’re not backing down. This campaign stands for disrupting the status quo — because the old guard hasn’t solved this crisis, and people are hurting. Read the platform and join us in building a fairer housing future for NY-13.
One of the reasons that James Felton Keith is running for US Congress and not local office is because many of our local politicians have been bought off to reject our affordable housing efforts, so we have to run against all of them. Every council member in the circle would rather create more buildings at market rate, and that is what has been displacing us. We have seen 90,000 Black people displaces because of their policies.
Say the protest with your chest. Literally wear it. That is how we raise awareness in this campaign against both the Silent Congressman on this issue and the State & City officials who continue to displace us when it is not necessary.
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