About Qué Pasa, Long Island: The Story of the Secatogue Nine
The focus of this five-part series is on an important housing discrimination case that unfolded in the early 2000s, culminating ten years ago – in 2014 - in an important victory for the tenants involved in the case. Latino immigrant residents, under the Fair Housing Act of 2006, successfully fought back an organized attempt by a developer and local officials to displace them from their homes in a residential housing complex in Farmingdale, New York.
This podcast is the product of a multi-disciplinary collaboration between the National Center for Suburban Studies, the Law Reform Advocacy Clinic at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, and the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication’s online hyper-local news site, The Long Island Advocate.
Learn more at https://qpli.hofstra.edu/
5: The Legal Strategy That Brought Victory for the Secatogue Nine
In this episode, we tell the story of how the Secatogue Nine, through their persistence and determination, and with the legal work of the Hofstra University Law Reform Advocacy Clinic, stopped the discriminatory cycle playing out in Farmingdale. The struggle lasted for over eight years, and the challenges facing the plaintiffs were profound. – uncertainty about outcomes, precarious living conditions during the litigation, working with dozens of law students over the many years of the legal pr...
5 Feb 2024
3. Combining Forces: How Housing Discrimination and Rights of Day Laborers Converged
In this episode, we hear the story of how Farmingdale officials and some of their constituents were growing increasingly hostile to immigrant day laborers in the village. The workers had been congregating at a day-laborer pick-up site close to the housing complex at 150 Secatogue Avenue. While many Latin American immigrants lived there, most of the people involved in the case were NOT day laborers. Nevertheless, they were still ostracized by other Farmingdale locals. We hear from local i...
5 Feb 2024
4. Smart Growth and Development – Another Way to Keep People Out?
The “Secatogue Nine” felt like a part of the Farmingdale community, but were consistently marginalized on several fronts. And while they received support from a certain sector of the local activist community, the larger plans being hatched in the Village were developing without their input. Village officials had resurrected a proposal to redevelop the buildings at Secatogue Avenue as part of their larger revitalization plan for Farmingdale. So as Farmingdale considered plans for revitalizatio...
5 Feb 2024
1. Who Are the Secatogue Nine?
When we started talking to the residents involved in the lawsuit, we were eager to know more about their lives before they came to the United States. Our story begins with the experiences of the residents of 150 Secatogue Avenue in Farmingdale. In this episode, the “Secatogue Nine” recount their traumatic journeys from their native countries in an effort to start a new life in Long Island, New York. Social unrest, domestic abuse, and gang violence are only a few examples of the trauma th...
5 Feb 2024
2. Yearning to Breathe Free: The Journey to Farmingdale
This episode’s theme focuses once more on the trauma the Secatogue Nine faced, but this time on their long journey to the US. We hear first-hand of the many challenges they experienced, once they decided to leave their homes and families behind and travelled to the United States. They were from Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala, each of them facing unique circumstances back home. We also look at how they landed in Farmingdale, Long Island and found themselves slowly building a ...
30 Jan 2024
Qué Pasa, Long Island: Trailer
The focus of this five-part series is on an important housing discrimination case that unfolded in the early 2000s, culminating ten years ago – in 2014 - in an important victory for the tenants involved in the case. Latino immigrant residents, under the Fair Housing Act of 2006, successfully fought back an organized attempt by a developer and local officials to displace them from their homes in a residential housing complex in Farmingdale, New York.In the series, we explore several aspects of...
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