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# NYC Housing Stories: Betty Yu and Emily Gallagher
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/nyc-housing-stories-betty-yu-and-emily-gallagher/
- Published: 2024-11-13T21:17:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:49:27.000Z
- Description: Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. Part two of a series.
- Author: Noah Fischer
- Tags: Comics, Betty Yu, Featured, New York, NYC Housing Stories, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:36 (2023, 2024, part 2)

*This is the second of a series of comics depicting transformative moments in the lives of artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing affordability crisis in New York City*

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## Betty Yu

Artist, co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade

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## Emily Gallagher

New York State Representative, District 50 (Greenpoint and Williamsburg)

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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2024/11/emily_d4.jpg)

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*The series was originally commissioned by* [*More Art*](https://moreart.org/projects/new-york-2044/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*