Community Action + Resident Empowerment (CARE) Summit - May 31, 2025
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Brownstoner: Protest Briefly Halts Hearing on NYC’s Controversial Tax Lien Sale System
The task force should return to its mandate and propose meaningful alternatives. That includes prioritizing early intervention in the foreclosure process and allowing city agencies—not private speculators—to step in.
Brick Underground: Mayor Adams is bringing the tax lien sale back. Here’s how to get your property off the list.
By Jennifer White Karp March 24, 2025 NYC’s tax lien sale outsources the collection of unpaid property taxes and other housing bills There are exemptions if you are a senior, veteran, or have a disability as well as payment plans
The New York Groove: The tax lien sale is back — here's how owners and renters can protect themselves
Low-income renters and homeowners, seniors and communities of color have suffered as a result of tax lien sales, but we're fighting back.
New York Times: They Helped New York Bounce Back. Now Their Rents Are Surging.
“As these businesses get drowned out by this tide of rising rent, culture disappears,” said Paula Segal, a lawyer with TakeRoot Justice, a nonprofit legal services group.
Bisnow: Lawmakers Are Pushing To Empower Community Land Trusts, But Harsh NYC Reality Stands In The Way
To renovate buildings the City has let get run down, it is forcing community land trusts and their partners to take out private loans. "And that is a real barrier to long-term affordability,” said Paula Segal, TakeRoot Justice.
The City: How These NYC Public Housing Residents Became Models for Tenant Rights Activism
With legal help from TakeRoot Justice, Cooper Park residents stopped a plan for luxury development on their parking lot by showing that NYCHA failed to follow environmental-review procedures and did not adequately engage residents.
City & State NY: Could NYCHA really fall into private hands?
“Then why didn’t the city or state guarantee stepping in, in the event of a default?" asked Marquis Jenkins, a longtime resident of NYCHA’s Bracetti Plaza in the East Village and a founding member of Residents to Preserve Public Housing.
amNY: Don’t park your lot here: Locals rally against Rutgers Slip playground demolition for luxury towers’ parking lot
“I’m still hopeful that we can have what was promised–a space that will serve the residents of Lands End II until the new buildings are built. Never a parking lot,” Paula Segal said, an attorney for CAAAV.
Artnet News: How Dozens of Gallery Expansions Hide the Brutal Reality of Real Estate Today—and How a Proposed Law Could Help (and Other Insights)
Paula Z. Segal, senior staff attorney at TakeRoot Justice, called commercial landlording in New York “the last unregulated industry.”