AGC NYS Zoom Town Hall with Congressman-elect Ritchie Torres

Tuesday, December 15 | 10:00 am.

Join us for a Zoom meeting with Congressman-elect Ritchie Torres.

Congressman-elect Torres will serve in the 15th Congressional District, representing parts of the Bronx. Ritchie Torres was elected to the New York City Council in November 2013 to represent the 15th Council District in the Central Bronx.  As a City Council Member, Ritchie served as Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, which oversees the New York City Housing Authority, the largest provider of affordable housing in the country. Ritchie held the first City Council hearing in a public housing development, shining a spotlight on housing infrastructure ravaged by Superstorm Sandy; he held hearings exposing the lead poisoning of thousands of children; and, in 2018, he led an investigation into the heating crisis in public housing, uncovering that 335,000 residents were deprived of heat and hot water for an average of 48 hours.

As Chair of the Committee on Oversight and Investigations, Ritchie led a City Council investigation and held a hearing on the collapse of the NYC medallion market, which had become a breeding ground for deregulation, speculation, and predatory lending – policy concerns that lie at the very core of the Financial Services Committee. Council Member Torres became active in politics at an early age, first as a fellow in the inaugural class of the Coro NY Exploring Leadership Program, and then going on to work as the Housing Director for Council Member Jimmy Vacca before running for office in 2013.  Ritchie Torres was raised by a single mother in public housing in the Bronx and at 25, he became the youngest elected official in New York City, and the first openly LGBT elected official from the Bronx.

This meeting requires Zoom, and no phone dial-in will be available. Zoom is best used through the app on a computer or mobile device, and can be downloaded here.

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