Communities Resist

Statement from Executive Director Nick E. Smith on the Affordable Housing Provisions in the Fiscal Year 2025 New York City Budget

Date

07.01.24

Category

Press Release

Statement from Executive Director Nick E. Smith on the Affordable Housing Provisions in the Fiscal Year 2025 New York City Budget

In light of $2 billion in funding being included for affordable housing in the Fiscal Year 2025 New York City budget, Communities Resist Executive Director Nick E. Smith released the following statement:

“Any additional funds allocated toward affordable housing- from all three levels of government- are critical. The additional $2 billion agreed upon by the Administration and Council will move the city closer toward a challenge facing all of us: building and preserving enough affordable units to meet massive demand and to bend the cost curve,” said Nick E. Smith, Executive Director of Communities Resist. “I hope this adoption is a reminder to our local, state and federal partners that the difficult task of tackling our affordable housing crisis requires a unified, ongoing approach. There is much more to do.”

About Communities Resist

Communities Resist (“CoRe”) is a community-based housing legal services and advocacy organization established and led by people of color to empower, educate and represent low-income communities and community coalitions preventing gentrification and displacement. Founded in 2019, CoRe has racked up several impressive wins, stopping nearly 1,000 evictions, filing 4,000+ affirmative litigation cases, engaging more than 8,000 New Yorkers at housing rights workshops and recovering settlements of all sizes for tenants across New York City.

“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,” said Ramona Blash of 316 Suydam St. Tenant Association.

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