Tenant Experiences at Linden Plaza
Findings included the failure of HUD to properly oversee Linden Plaza, as well as the impact of negligence and abuse on tenants by building management.
All items tagged 'Report'
The Predatory Equity Story: Tenant Perspectives on Speculative Landlords, Displacement, and Fighting for Justice
This report tells the story of predatory equity on the ground, where landlords are using various aggressive tactics to push out long-term rent-regulated tenants.
Pathways to Success: The Need for Accessible, Appropriate Trainings for Retail Workers
This report finds that retail workers face many barriers such as discrimination and a lack of training and education opportunities as they attempt to advance in their retail careers.
Resisting Displacement in the Southwest Bronx: Lessons from CASA's Tenant Organizing
This white paper presents a clear and accurate definition of displacement to counter the false assertion that most tenants leave neighborhoods by choice.
A People’s Budget: A Research and Evaluation Report on Participatory Budgeting in New York City. Cycle 4
Summary Participatory budgeting (PB) is a unique civic engagement process which allows community members—instead of elected officials alone—to determine how public funds should be spent, from start to finish. Four years ago, in 2011-12, a pilot process in four City
Stand for Tenant Safety (STS): Construction as Harassment in Rent Stabilized Buildings and the STS Legislative Solution
The Community Development Project in partnership with the Stand for Tenant Safety coalition released this report documenting aggressive construction in occupied buildings and how it is used as a tool to displace rent-regulated New York City tenants.
NO GO for Local Businesses
This report aims to highlight the importance of small businesses to the unique and historic identity of the Lower East Side. During 2006 and 2007, the Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) conducted a small-business survey to document the hardships
Reimagining Rezoning: A Chinatown for Residents is a Chinatown for All
The following report lays out principles for an equitable rezoning and specific rezoning policies that would fulfill the principles. Both the principles and rezoning policy recommendations were developed with and by Chinatown residents and business owners, and through numerous discussions
Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision: Policy Platform
This report includes a set of policy recommendations focusing on four principles for the development of Jerome Avenue: Real Affordable Housing, Good Jobs and Local Hire, Strong Anti-Harassment and Anti-Displacement Policies, and Real Community Participation.
Calling for Land Use Decisions to be Made through an Equity Framework
In 2017, the Equitable Neighborhoods practice joined our clients, elected advocates Councilman Antonio Reynoso and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and the Regional Plan Association to create a platform for reforming the processes through which private development is approved in