City Limits: Pioneering Tenant Group Champions Rights of NYC’s 35K Supportive Housing Residents
“You can’t exercise housing rights you don’t know you have."
“You can’t exercise housing rights you don’t know you have."
“The decision is very clear that none of the agencies can take any action. They cannot send confronting letters, they cannot accept applications, nothing can happen towards the development of the towers until they are properly approved.”
“It was a strategy we developed two and a half years ago. It’s based on the Chinatown Working Group. So it’s kind of exciting to plan and see it come to fruition this way. It has all been very deliberate.
Right to counsel stops evictions, but it also creates space to organize and build tenant power to win bigger and bolder demands.
“We won Two Bridges hearing, today. The judge accepted our arguments and extended the restraining order until written decision in August. He said on the record that he believes the process was fatally flawed.”