Summary On July 16, 2026, SHOUT (Supportive Housing Organized and United Tenants) and TakeRoot Justice released a new report, “Nothing Was Done: How New York City’s Supportive Housing System Fails Tenants, and What Must Change”. The report reveals the multiple ways supportive
Let Us Breathe! The Dust Is Everywhere: Our Call to End the Inwood Material Terminal’s Contamination of Our Homes in Far Rockaway Public Housing highlights a facet of environmental racism faced by public housing residents living in the Redfern Houses
“Being part of the second annual CARE Summit – aka the NYCHA Real Talk conference – was such an amazing experience. Although this isn’t my first Real Talk conference, it felt different because my development, Stanley Issacs, had just
NYCHA Real Talk is a train-the-trainers program to support community members in informing their neighbors on how to develop hyper-localized strategies related to public housing, land use and healthy homes for and with NYCHA communities.
In January 2021, in response to advocacy the Abolish the NYC Tax Lien Sale Coalition, the NYC City Council passed legislation charting the course for ending New York City’s tax lien sale (Local Law 24 of 2021).
TakeRoot provides legal and technical support to grassroots organizations creating Community Land Tursts in order to preserve long-term affordability and economic investment in their communities.
TakeRoot worked directly with residents at Wyckoff Gardens, LaGuardia Houses, Holmes Towers and Cooper Park Houses – the four sites where NYCHA and NYC Housing Preservation and Development have publicized an intention to allow private developers to construct market rate
