Where is the outcry by the tenants and the union for NYCHA employees, Local Teamster 237?

Eleven day old Christian McFadden died this weekend. Jacob Newman, age 5 died on August 19, 2008. Neither of these children should have died. But both Christian and Jacob lived in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments. Christian in the Van Dyke Houses and Jacob in the Taylor-Wythe Apartment Complex, owned and overseen by New York City Housing Authority. Both children died because of the neglect of the New York City Housing Authority. The New York Housing Authority has continuously cut back services due to funding loses. The truth is that NYCHA, the State of New York, the Federal government and the City of New York can find the money to fund the starving public housing development. Like the MTA who always screams poverty to raise the fare, NYCHA screams cut backs from all government sources as their excuse to allow the buildings and grounds to deteriorate.
As a resident at the Frederick Douglass Houses in the Upper West Side I am appalled by the neglect these buildings are going through. But more appalling is the indifference of the tenants of New York City Housing and its employees.
According to the New York City Housing Authority website as of July 3, 2008 there were 178,137 apartments in 343 developments; 2,636 residential buildings; 173,808 families and 403,535 authorized residents; 3,337 elevators and 12,600 employees. With well over half a million tenants why are the buildings over run with deficiencies like broken elevators, dirty stairs, dirty hallways, dirty lobbies, asbestos in apartments, hallways, stairways. Mold in apartments. Leaky roofs. Broken windows. Lack of hot water and/or heat. Rats and cockroaches and faulty electrical work. Just to name a few problems. Can you imagine the power of nearly 600,000 tenants and 12,600 employees uniting to make The New York City Housing Authority accountable? Where is the outcry by the tenants and the union for NYCHA employees, Local Teamster 237? How many more must die before the voices unite as one and shake the establishment down to its foundation?