Nova Rivera (she/her) is an Advocacy Coordinator/Paralegal in the Housing Rights area. She is a queer undocumented immigrant from Peru and has held various roles in the housing, labor, and immigrant rights movements. More recently, Nova spent the last few
Colin Kent-Daggett (he/him) is an Advocacy Coordinator/Paralegal in the Housing Rights practice area. Before joining TakeRoot, he worked in Brooklyn as a tenant organizer and worked in Providence, Rhode Island as a political organizer and advocate. He was born and
The Housing Rights team at TakeRoot Justice is seeking two staff attorneys to join us! We are a diverse team, committed to our mission of dismantling racial, economic and social oppression. TakeRoot Justice encourages applications from people with diverse backgrounds including women, people of
Some of the biggest providers of housing for mentally ill and formerly homeless New Yorkers have sued tenants for unpaid rent. While few have been evicted, critics call the process cruel and unnecessary. Read more at The New York Times.
City Councilmember Sandy Nurse (D-Brooklyn) is introducing a package of bills that aims to curb illegal evictions, citing THE CITY’s reporting on tenants locked out of their apartments by landlords. Titled the Stop Illegal Evictions Act, the four bills Nurse
María de Lourdes Vaello-Calderón (she/her) is a staff attorney in the Housing Rights practice. She is a human rights lawyer and community advocate, having worked at the intersection of the right to housing and disaster recovery in her native Puerto
TakeRoot Justice is proud to be a founding organization of Supportive Housing Organized and United Tenants (SHOUT), the city’s first ever tenant union of supportive housing tenants and applicants. The creation and impact of the coalition – just this year!
Aby is an Advocacy Coordinator/Paralegal in the Housing Rights practice area. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Scripps College where she majored in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Chicanx/Latinx Studies. She was born and raised in Chicago and is
