The Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) is grateful for the opportunity to submit this statement in conjunction with today’s hearing on the draft legislation proposed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Preservation, Enhancement and
In 2009, Mothers on the Move (MOM), a grassroots membership-led organization based in the South Bronx, developed and implemented a three-part Community Visioning Process. MOM’s goal for the visioning process was to develop an alternative to gentrification by having community
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Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), with support from the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project developed this research project to document this grocery store crisis and advocate for a new grocery store on Myrtle Avenue that sells
This is community-based workers' rights lawyering as I know it. In the present paper, I draw on my work at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center ("CDP") to present and endorse a model of community lawyering in
Over the last three months, over 150 members from RTTC-NYC organizations have been walking the streets of 298 census tracts located in 9 different community districts to document the true extent of the problem posed by empty condos and stalled
The NYC Research and Organizing Initiative (NYCROI) is a collaborative project that was formed by numerous local organizations in NYC. These groups identified the need for training and skill development in order to strategically generate research that will support and advance
In 2005 the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the City’s official economic development organization, launched a plan to dramatically redevelop the waterfront in the Lower East Side and Chinatown. Overall, this plan was not responsive to the needs
