Weeks 7 and 8

For Weeks 7 and 8, I followed Picture the Homeless @pthny, TenantsPAC @tenantspacny and NYC Mayor’s Office @NYCMayorsOffice. The New York City Housing Authority @NYCHA tweeted a youtube video of a New York 1 news piece about weather resistant generators being installed in public housing in the Rockaway section of Queens. This is significant considering that the Rockaways were severely effected by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The primary rhetoric device in the piece was logos as it focused on the practical benefits of having weather resistant generators in public housing. @NYCMayorsOffice tweeted a public service announcement in the form of a poster that was made to look like “welcome home” place mat. I think that it was very effective in making public housing feel more “homey” to the public because when many people think of public housing they think of sterile living spaces that may not be worth saving.