HOUSING WORKSHOP OUTREACH
AFFIRMATIVE CASES FILED
EVICTIONS STOPPED
Read about how we’re helping tenants, including families displaced by fires, Greenpoint tenants facing eviction, and more.
See the latestCoRe partners with community-based organizations that fight against displacement and respond to the needs of community members to preserve safe, affordable housing for low-income tenants throughout Brooklyn and Queens. In Brooklyn, CoRe has a storied history of fighting alongside over a dozen community-based organizations to prevent evictions and fight for justice and fair housing. In Queens, CoRe is partnering with multiple organizations as we address the growing need for tenant protections in rapidly gentrifying areas. Our closest partners include:
Communities Resist represents or actively participates in over a dozen community-led coalitions that serve many neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, in a concerted effort to prevent large-scale displacement of vulnerable tenants. These coalitions address neighborhood rezonings in low-income communities, land use actions, advocacy around impact legislation and City Charter reform. One such long-standing coalition is Mobilization Against Displacement, which aims to ensure that neighborhoods like North Brooklyn remain the diverse and vibrant communities that are called home by many poor and working-class families. Additionally, our staff actively works with several local Community Boards and their subcommittees on issues related to housing and neighborhood rezonings. CoRe actively participates in the following coalitions:
-Ramona Blash - 316 Suydam St. Tenant Association
The need for this work has exponentially grown since COVID-19 hit New York City’s low-income communities of color who not only experience the highest rates of sickness and death from COVID-19, but also receive the least resources, especially in housing.