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Community Action + Resident Empowerment (CARE) NYCHA Real Talk Summits

“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

The City: How These NYC Public Housing Residents Became Models for Tenant Rights Activism

With legal help from TakeRoot Justice, Cooper Park residents stopped a plan for luxury development on their parking lot by showing that NYCHA failed to follow environmental-review procedures and did not adequately engage residents.