hi everybody and welcome to the Monica makes it happen show I'm Monica Morales and for years you've invited me into your homes to fix them and sometimes we even get you new homes this show is all about affordable housing and heroes who are making it happen coming up we'll have some hot new listings and some pretty famous faces ready for this lineup Dion Warwick is here Lisa Lisa Styles P and fabiio foren so let's get started let take a look at the view you need affordable housing we have got the
hottest listings across the city and there's closet space love that rent is to damn high right like we keep saying that you say the I just say rent is to damn High she grew up in public housing and now she is the boss in charge of six billion dollarss of housing across New York and New Jersey Alica a Samuels here we hear lot of your viewers complaining about displacement she is a Latin music icon Lisa Lisa is here she battled breast cancer while on tour and beat it now she's giving back to her
community big time the humanitarian the heart and speaking of music icons philanthropist Dion Warwick is here she is our good friend and has given Millions to fight AIDS she needs help for her East Orange School let's make it happen and we're talking health and wealth with hip hop Legend Styles P we have a surprise for him too I can't believe who's on our show and now it's our power panel talking housing and heroes we have quite a lineup Al a Samuels here so is Lisa Lisa and the president and CO
O of Union settlement Dr Darlene Williams well you have a big announcement for us but that's going to be later on first Alica I have to talk to you we've known each other for years you've been on our first Facebook shows thank you now we have our own TV show which is great 11 billion 11 billion that you're in charge of of housing you're from public housing always the priority is our communities right absolutely absolutely absolutely and I think that's what makes me um you know just do the work t
hat I do every single day it's my why I know what the families and public housing are going through and so now to be the presidential appointee at HUD um it just makes sense leadership matters yes it matters and you're not only at the table you're leading the discussion so what's your priority it every single day I know you're we we've been walking around a lot in Brownsville you've done a lot of investment you know from that Community because that's what you represented for so long and you're j
ust you're you're a Powerhouse and I love to know that you're in charge what are you doing if our viewers are watching what are you doing for them what's available to them now every single day I'm in the street and I'm encouraging people to not just talk about the problems but be a part of the solution and so every single day I'm encouraging Community stakeholders officials and residents to be a part of the change that we see coming that we see happening every single day so my priority is not ju
st affordable housing rental units it's also home ownership Monica oh I love to hear that my mom was all about that and that's she left me a legacy behind and we're going to have we're going to have all those resources thanks to your team for our viewers connected to all of our social media platforms Lisa Lisa I have been such a fan of yours since the egg you are such a legend for Latina specifically Paving the way but I gave you an award recently in Long Island because you're always giving to w
omen why why always go back to your community always fighting for us it's important to let them know that anything can be done we as women we need to know that we have that strength that we could be up there in the front row you know making things happen so anything that I can do if I can use my platform my name my visual anything I can do to make these women know that we can be up there you know what the power on this couch can change the world and you did you fought breast cancer you're on tou
r now yes what do you want people to know about what you're doing now oh there's a tour that's going on right now and it hasn't it's been going on for the past five years oh my uh with my band so disrespectful and the dancers we're out there doing our thing yes and it's nonstop we're going to be at March 22nd we're going to be at the YouTube theater in in California yes what June 7th Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend we are going to be at Radio City oh my god with Tony touch we have to come we're
coming we're coming and you know I'm inviting myself I was just so you know now uh you we have to talk to you Union settlement CEO the first woman of color to lead that organization you have a big announcement for us breaking news right here we always break news and money and checks right here yes yes so you know Union settlement is part of the United neighborhood houses so we apply for a grant through the gersner Family Foundation and we were awarded funds to give to individuals who are in a cr
isis related to housing so rent or groceries rent of rear groceries housing food anything they need to help them to ensure that they they don't lose their home or they don't lose their space we're going to have that information and I love having you at the head of that organization you've made so many strides but you're fighting for families specifically 10,000 families in East Harlem 10,000 I have a surprise for you ladies and can we play the music head to toe I want you get you are a community
champion you are a community champion and you are a community champion thank you so much you we love you from head to toe our communities love you and thanks for everything that you dok you we come back on the show absolutely I love you girls and well the star power continues stick around because later on hip hop Legends Styles P and Fabio forign are here wait to see that moment where they meet I also sit down with Deion Warwick the legendary singer is here to talk about her passion project of
giving back to the kids in her hometown of East Orange and renovating that school but first an exclusive look at the hottest affordable housing listings in your neighborhood with New York City's boss of housing ad Doo Kion Jor you don't want to miss this there she is can't wait to be in my new apartment thanks Monica for making it happen first I want to thank Monica Morales for all you do to advocate for families of New York and also to help us dealing with this affordability crisis she's out in
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l 1844 26777 9 that's 1844 26777 n Health First Medicare Advantage plans where Healthy Starts honoring black history We Salute Dr Martin Luther King Jr by acknowledging those he inspired Andrew Young is a civil rights leader former Congressman mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the United Nations he worked hand inand with Dr King New York's very own Pix 11 honoring black history and welcome back to the Monica makes it happen TV show get this according to a new city report less than 1% of Apartme
nts were available for rent at less than $2400 a month in New York City that report coming from the Department of New York City housing preservation and development and joining me now is a Department's commissioner a Alo Carion Jr a friend to the show I think you've been on the show more than anybody else just about anybody Monica you know why cuz that's because you have the information you have what people want to know where can they get that affordable housing are there any secrets you can giv
e us right at the top if someone's watching and they're desperate for a place to live you know let me let me first start saying thank you for the work you do as a reporter because I think you're you're offering a public service to New Yorkers that is so important and so vital especially as we go through this crisis Working Families poor families middle inome families people can't afford to live in New York City and look I you know I grew up like you in New York City I had the benefit of living p
ublic housing you're from Public public housing an affordable mortgage for our first home with the help of the federal government people are choking right now and when we reported a couple of weeks ago 1.4% vacancy rate of 50e low only about 30 some OD thousand units available for uh a rent below $2,400 a month in a city of 9.2 million people it's crazy it's a crisis and we still want to be the competitive Global City and offer families an opportunity so you asked the question you know what I lo
ve how do we make it happen is yes because you you're telling the truth you know for so many times we don't always believe our public officials you lean in and you tell the truth and you're like this is how we're going to Sol solve it so we are going to do a regular thing with you I hope that's okay we do exclusive and information with for our viewers I want to do that right now if that's okay let's do it right now start the show right let's do it right now and surprise I mean we're going to Bro
oklyn first there's this beautiful property here a dozen units available at 10:15 Atlantic Avenue and when's the deadline tell me a little bit about that deadline is March 1 it's a newly construction uh constructed luxury Residential Building located in uh B stent um and now to the Bronx I know to the Bronx you're and they're accepting applications I think coming up till April 3rd 43 units available right now it's 301 Grand Concourse Apartments a 10-story residential building in Bedford Park the
apartments have air conditioning they have a patio or balcony high-end countertops and finishes and and again this is all of available in the city right now these are jewels that are on your website right now housing connects right housingconnect.nyc.gov okay so we're going to have that on all of our social media platforms we need tips how do people get affordable if like let's say right now I'm looking for affordable you're the boss how do I do it immediately what would I do I have to tell you
you know I I can't tell people enough get to housingconnect.nyc.gov you have to create an account for you and your family profile in thereor you create a profile you pick a neighborhood where there's 32 active lotteries right now today as we speak 32 active lottery so we talked about all oursite it's on pix11.com we have it all there taking applications and I just love that you're the one in charge and you're making sure that our communities are the ones getting it so you are our Pix 11 communi
ty champion way I know you get a lot of these I've been to all the dinners so I know you get a lot of them but this is very special this one go somewhere special and it is all about housing you'll come back right you're going to come back I will be here thank you so much for everything that you do for our communities and well lots more to come stick around because next Double the star power we have hip hop icon Styles P and Fabio Ford is here they're here and they're helping our communities Thri
ve and we have surprises for them as well and we're sitting down with music legend Dion Warwick she has given Millions away to make our world a better place she's just getting started that's right her focus is the children from her hometown in New Jersey stay with us thank you all this is because of you I want to thank you for everything that you've done since you've been here it's been amazing a lot of apartments are getting done especially on the Eline thank you Monica you made it thank you Mo
nica make it happen he
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