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Tuesday July 06, 2010

Settlement Reached in Case Against Sewage Odors in South Bronx

New York City - A major environmental justice case in the South Bronx was settled today as New York City agreed to resolve long-standing community concerns regarding odors and emissions from sewage facilities in the Hunts Point neighborhood.Read More >

Tuesday May 11, 2010

Low-Income NY'ers & Elected Officials Call on City to Convert Condos in Low-Income Areas into Affordable Housing

New York City - Harlem - Six primarily low-income neighborhoods across the city are home to 4,092 empty housing units, on the market for an average of nearly $2 million, as New York City continues to face record homelessness and increasingly unavailable low-income housing, according to new data released today by Right to the City-NYC (RTTC-NYC). The report, People without Homes, & Homes without People, follows RTTC-NYC's fall count of vacant condos in these six neighborhoods.Read More >

Monday May 10, 2010

For Drug Users, Coalition Serves as Voice in Albany

New York City - In a borrowed room in Chelsea on a recent Monday night, 13 people sat under fluorescent lights discussing the time-honored art of lobbying and the cold calculus of political persuasion. And for this unusual organization, the typical difficulty of being heard among the vast jumble of special interests clamoring for attention in Albany is complicated by the fact that it represents drug users, past and present.Read More >

Thursday March 04, 2010

Democracy Begins at Home: Public Housing Tenants Without a Voice

New York City - Walk through a typical New York City public housing complex, and you are not likely to see many signs of civic life among drab high-rises and asphalt lots. But once upon a time, public housing was seen as a foundation for community-building, and residents were supposed to have a say in how their neighborhoods were run.Read More >

Tuesday January 26, 2010

Homeless & Racial Justice Activists Hold Summit on "Disorderly Conduct" Statute

New York City - On Thursday night at the offices of the Center for Constitutional Rights, homeless members of the citywide grassroots organization Picture the Homeless (PTH) convened a summit with leaders from other civil and human rights organizations to discuss the NYPD’s use of the Disorderly Conduct statute, which they charge is unconstitutional in its vagueness and arbitrary enforcement.Read More >

Friday December 04, 2009

FDNY, Bldgs. take illegal conversion battle to the street

New York City - New York City is making a new push to curb the number of illegally converted apartments after a series of deadly fires.Read More >

Friday December 04, 2009

Picture the Homeless Takes Aim at Chase Bank

New York City - JPMorgan Chase head Jamie Dimon better watch out this Christmas - the homeless are coming to town. At least 30 homeless and housing activists rallied outside the headquarters of banking giant Chase December 2 to demand that the bank utilize their ownership of vacant property in New York City to create housing for poor people and the homeless.Read More >

Monday November 02, 2009

NYC Launches Condo Conversion Campaign

New York City - On October 27, 2009, Right to the City-NYC held a rally and press conference to launch our campaign to convert vacant luxury condos into housing for low-income people and to release some preliminary data from our citywide vacant condo count; the participatory research project we have been working on for the last three months.Read More >

Wednesday October 14, 2009

HUD Passes the Buck At Town Hall Meeting

New York City - HUD (Housing and Urban Development) representatives blamed Congress, local HUD offices, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), and even public housing residents for their own failing policies and lack of communication with residents at a town hall meeting, this past Saturday.Read More >

Monday September 28, 2009

Local Right to the City Coalition Releases Policy Platform for New York

New York City - The local coalition of the national Right to the City Alliance has released a detailed policy platform for New York City, calling for low-income communities to be involved in the allocation of stimulus funds, radical changes to the New York City Charter to give communities more power, and affordable housing for low-income people.Read More >

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