Gladys Puglia
Community Organizer
Gladys Puglia, a community organizer with Make the Road NY, shares her story of tenant organizing for Latino and working class communities in Bushwick. In this Spanish interview, she reflects on her background in Ecuador, immigrating to New York, and her own experience of being offered and refusing a buyout for her rent-stabilized apartment. Since then, Gladys has helped organize a tenants’ rights support group of Spanish-speaking local residents for MTRNY where they are facilitating a movement against buyouts in Bushwick.
Interview details
Interview Title:
Interview with Gladys Puglia
Interviewee:
Gladys Puglia
Job Title:
Community Organizer
Interviewer:
Cynthia Tobar
Interview Date:
November 16, 2015
Length:
00:38:00
Resource Type:
Recording, video
Format:
Digital, mp4
Subject:
Immigration, Community organizing, Affordable housing, Gentrification , Activism, Displacement
Rights:
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Justice in Bushwick by Cynthia Tobar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Digital ID:
Puglia_Gladys.mp4
Reference URL:
http://citiesforppl.org/interviews/interview-with-gladys-puglia
Bibliographic Citation:
"Interview with Gladys Puglia," in Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Justice in Bushwick, http://citiesforppl.org/interviews/interview-with-gladys-puglia