Residents of Brooklyn’s largest public housing complex are criticizing the city’s response to the disaster. Public tenants in the neighborhood of Red Hook went for weeks without basic services like power and heat but are are still being asked to pay rent on time before receiving a credit in January. Earlier this week, residents protested in front of the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA, to issue a series of demands.

Reg Flowers of the Red Hook Initiative: The short-term demands are just like repairs in the buildings, making sure that the air quality and the water quality is safe for people living in housing, and just making those apartments inhabitable again. Some of the long-term demands are making sure that money that is coming down for recovery efforts, that a certain amount of that is going to be directed towards NYCHA, also getting people from housing and from the community at large involved in those meetings when decisions are being made about recovery money allocation. So, I feel like the long-term goal is getting — empowering the community.”