East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust

🔴The Rent Guidelines Board should not make rent stabilized tenants pay rents they can’t afford in order to repay landlords for old losses they’ve already recouped. 👉Our Senior Policy Analyst, Samuel Stein, delivered testimony today before the RGB. cssny.org/news/entry/tes…

Thank you @sylvia_nyc and @prattcenter for this excellent report, "CLTs Gaining Ground in NYC" which features ENYCLT! Recs: -Enact legislation & direct land to Community Land Trusts #PasstheCLA - Invest in CLTs - Integrate CLTs into the city’s plans prattcenter.net/our_work/gaini…

“To tackle the worst housing crisis in over a century, we not only need stronger tenant protections and funding to immediately house people; we must also take back our homes from speculators and move them into social and community ownership.” - @EHEBCLT's Julia Duranti-Martinez

“We believe that our communities should be safely, securely, and affordably housed, and that the best way to achieve this is by putting land and housing in the hands of our communities. That’s what the #CommunityLandAct is about.” - @EHEBCLT's Athena Bernkopf

Our Town Hall series has generated growing support for the #CommunityLandAct, to bring land and housing into permanently-affordable community control! Check out highlights from our Manhattan event, w/ 75+ participants from across the borough. #CLTsforNYC #PassTheCLA #COPA #TOPA

We’re in Albany with @NYCCLI, @housing4allNY and @PublicBankNYC to push our electeds to #passTOPA and pass the New York Public Banking Act!

Curious how you can join the fight for housing and land justice? Join our first borough town hall in support of the Community Land Act! Wednesday, January 25th at 7pm Register here: tiny.cc/CLA

Do you want to stop displacement in your community and want to fight for community ownership of land and housing? Support the Community Land Act and join an upcoming town hall!! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

"We want #TOPA!"

NYCCLI is out with @housing4allNY rallying for #TOPA, #GoodCause, #HAVP + more to keep NYers safely housed and bring land and housing into community control! #OurHomesOurPower #CLTsforNYC

In 2021, 55 organizations called on the @RacialJusticeNY to include #PublicLandforPublicGood as a ballot measure. In 2022 we worked with @LincolnRestler to introduce Intro 0637! In 2023 we're going to pass Intro 0637 & make sure public land remains for the public good!

So many people from the Lower East Side and beyond came out to demand permanently owned community controlled housing for seniors and low income families on city owned land! #NYCforCLTs

.@EHEBCLT's and our very own Athena Bernkopf asks: "How can we recognize land as not just something we make decisions about, but as a member of our community?" Now @parodneck's "#Cooperative Democracy" conference. @GC_CUNY

New York is entering yet another period of intense housing pressure and displacement as rents in NYC are reaching all-time highs. But there is a better, more equitable way forward: social housing. Join us on Nov. 14 at 1PM to learn more: bit.ly/3sJi1X7

Thank you to @estherxlwang and @HellGateNY for great coverage of 1392 Sterling Place’s 1 year on rent strike—and the fight ahead for tenants to take control of the building! hellgatenyc.com/mondays-are-fo…

“Now they say it will take money to fix up the vacant apartments—but where has our rent money gone for years? Clearly not to any upkeep in the building” Check out more coverage of the rally at 1392 Sterling this weekend! brooklyneagle.com/articles/2022/…

New Yorkers urgently need a system that cares more about housing’s value as a home and less about its value as real estate. We’ve identified 20 social housing policies that can get us there. Learn more in our latest report @ cssny.org/PathwaysToSoci…

“The argument we’re building in this report is that it’s not just about social housing as the ends, it’s about the means of getting there,” says CSS policy analyst Sam Stein. “And the means of getting there look a lot like the housing justice campaigns we’re all involved in."

YIMBY? NIMBY? How about *SHIMBY* "Social housing in my backyard all day, every day" says @tiffany_caban A new report from @CSSNYorg, @mhanymanagement and @UNHP describes the steps to get there For @CityLimitsNews citylimits.org/2022/11/01/ris…