How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn…

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“How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes

“The charity paid millions in federal stimulus funds to developers shortly after longtime tenants were pushed out.

“We are spending federal money to throw low-income New Yorkers out of buildings,” wrote a Habitat whistleblower.

https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-brooklyn-bedford-stuyvesant-poor-lose-homes

“What our expensive cities need now is not upgrades to housing. They need more places where poor people can afford to live — and that calls for driving prices and rents down.”

The Story Behind Hurricane Sandy’s First Viral Photo

American Photo Magazine interviews Nick Cope about his viral photo experience during Hurricane Sandy. It is a story many accidental photojournalists will identify with.

” On the morning the storm hit New York City, Nick Cope snapped a photo of rising flood waters from the window of his Red Hook, Brooklyn apartment. Then things got interesting. “

Increasingly, Climate Change induced extreme weather phenomena has become the norm. Likewise, so has photograph rights-usage stories like Nick Cope’s also become the norm.