Housing Comes First

Organizing Update--New York City

Housing Here and Now! is a coalition of affordable housing groups, labor unions, AIDS activists, churches and community groups in New York City. They decided to get togther and force housing onto the 2005 NYC Mayoral Election agenda.

The group uses organizing tactics as well as political pressure. Their Fix It Now! campaign focuses on the city's worst slumlords. This article details how tenants used a slumlord's mortgage company as leverage to get repairs made on a crappy building.

The group also has a web site New York City's Worst Landlords so that tenants can report problems from all over the city.

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