our impact

keeping families in safe and
dignified homes

SEE THE RESULTS

8000

HOUSING WORKSHOP OUTREACH

4000

AFFIRMATIVE CASES FILED

837

EVICTIONS STOPPED

impact in action

Read about how we’re helping tenants, including families displaced by fires, Greenpoint tenants facing eviction, and more.

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history of change through action

Community Partners

Community Partners

CoRe 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:

  • South Side United HDFC
  • St. Nicks Alliance
  • Los Sures Lucha
  • United Neighbors Organization
  • Los Sures Lucha
  • Mobilization Against Displacement
  • People’s Firehouse
  • North Brooklyn Development Corporation
  • Cooper Square Committee
  • Housing Conservation Coordinators
  • Minkwon Center for Community Action
  • Korean American Family Service Center
  • YWCA of Queens
  • Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York
  • Voces Latinas

Community coalitions

Community coalitions

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:

  • Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone (BASE)
  • End Warehousing
  • Stand for Tenant Safety (STS)
  • Coalition against Tenant Harassment (CATH)
  • Housing Justice for All
  • Right to Counsel
  • Housing Court Must Change
  • Rent Strike Legal Support
  • Racial Impact Study
  • Thriving Communities – Comprehensive Planning
  • Mobilization Against Displacement (MAD)
  • Broadway Triangle
  • Pfizer
  • Rheingold
  • Bushwick Community Plan
  • Public Bank NYC
“After years of feeling powerless against our abusive landlord who wasn't providing heat and hot water nor repairing my apartments, my neighbors and I had no other choice than to reach out for help. With the help of our attorney from Communities Resist we were able to organize a Tenant Association and fight back against the abusive landlord. We finally won.”

-Ramona Blash - 316 Suydam St. Tenant Association

your support will help core expand this work

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. 

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