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June 10, 2017

El-Yateem and The Grant That Didn’t Do Anything

 

Recently, I found Khader El-Yateem writing about a grant that he secured.  Reverend El-Yateem didn’t mention being in a group that “secured the grant,” he wrote that HE SECURED IT.

 

 

 

 

The grant was for HUD housing for Bay Ridge Seniors and Families.

El-Yateem said that board members didn’t want that type of housing because it would lower home values.  El-Yateem didn’t mention where this HUD low income housing was going, but surely it wasn’t going next to his home in Dyker Heights. It’s strange that he found it weird that middle class families would think it was okay to throw low income housing next to their homes, but not his.

Here’s the important part:   What happened to the grant? Did El-Yateem just let the issue go? Why didn’t El-Yateem use the leadership he claims to have and “secure” a new site in the area? 

If a grant was “secured,” it wouldn’t just dissipate.  

 

Something just isn’t right here. This is just like when El-Yateem presented the Bay Ridge Breakfast Club as much more than a once a year breakfast club.

 

 

When people say that affordable housing is not in Bay Ridge, they are just not informed. Over the years, apartment buildings have been changed to SRO’s and are on our blocks (well on our block). When you hear police sirens in the Summer and have no idea why you keep hearing them, it’s because someone called them to the SRO because people in the SRO are fighting with each other.

 

I welcome Reverend El-Yateem’s response. I received this on Twitter:

 

 

Hugs,
marlene

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