Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report

National Edition

Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

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NYC Residential Construction: This is What the Bottom Looks Like

with

* Brian Kates, Daily News Staff Writer, Author Series “The Building Boom-Doggle”

* James Parrott, Deputy Dir., Fiscal Policy Institute, Author, “The Underground Economy in NYC’s Affordable Housing Construction”

* Jonathan Bennett, Public Affairs Director, NY Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)



N.Y.C. Mayor Bloomberg was shocked, shocked to learn that NYC’s residential construction boom is being built in a huge underground economy.

Tens of thousands of workers are being paid low wages off the books, working in unsafe working conditions where employers routinely violate

building codes. The worst violations are in the city-subsidized affordable housing program.

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