Domestic workers continue to organize and continue to act for the sector’s collective interest, calling for state, national international policies that will enable them to achieve fair labor standards, recognition and full social stature.
This report documents the inconsistent, informal, and uncertain nature of domestic employment and concludes that domestic workers need the right to collectively bargain. Inclusion under the SLRA would represent more than a symbolic gesture: the law’s important protections would allow
The report details recommendations to reform NYCHA’s systems and services to give LEP Asian tenants genuine, meaningful access to critical information about their housing, and to allow them to participate more fully in the broader NYCHA community.
This report details strategies used by different kinds of community organizing groups to achieve policy wins and accomplishments.
The Fees are Fraud Coalition and CDP released these new findings about how landlords are using non-rent fees—charges added to monthly rent statements—as a way to push residents out of rent-stabilized apartments.
In this update, you will find information about our recently published reports as well as information about some of our current and upcoming projects and initiatives.
Summary The Northwest Queens Financial Education Network, composed of CDP, Chhaya CDC, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and Queens Community House (QCH) worked on this report, which is based on 253 surveys. It explores how immigrants in Northwest Queens save
Summary CDP released this report in partnership with the Employment Law Unit at the Legal Aid Society and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. The report highlights immense problems that workers in New York face in collecting the
The first portion of this report documents the best practices and challenges of the Eldercare Dialogues, a two-year long process to bring together elders, direct care workers, and their family members. The second half of the report is a toolkit
