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Organizations advocating for new housing policy — rent stabilization, tenant protections, and affordable housing expansion.
Affordable & Supportive Housing
Preserves affordable housing and historic buildings while supporting neighborhood stability.
East Harlem / Upper Manhattan
Develops and operates affordable and supportive housing.
NYC · especially Brooklyn
Develops and preserves affordable housing and community facilities.
Hell's Kitchen / Clinton and west Manhattan
Develops supportive and affordable housing and advocates for people with mental-health needs.
NYC citywide
Transforms distressed buildings into permanently affordable, resident-controlled housing.
NYC citywide
Resident-governed mutual housing preserving long-term affordable apartments.
Lower East Side / East Village
Large nonprofit owner and developer of affordable housing.
Northwest and central Bronx
Affordable homeownership, preservation and housing-equity programs.
NYC and Westchester
Develops and manages affordable housing and supports neighborhood revitalization.
East Harlem
Develops, rehabilitates and preserves affordable housing.
Lower East Side / East Village
Community-based mutual housing developer and manager focused on long-term affordability.
Lower East Side / East Village
Develops, preserves and manages permanently affordable and community-oriented housing.
NYC and surrounding region
Develops affordable housing and helps domestic-violence survivors obtain and retain permanent homes.
NYC citywide
Supports HDFC co-ops, resident ownership and permanently affordable cooperative housing.
NYC citywide
Affordable-housing development, preservation and community services.
Harlem / Upper Manhattan
Develops and operates affordable supportive housing for older adults and vulnerable New Yorkers.
Manhattan and NYC
Eviction, Repairs & Tenant Tools
Housing Court information, referrals, hotline assistance and tenant-rights education.
NYC citywide
Nonprofit technology organization building free tools for tenants to exercise housing rights.
NYC citywide
Homelessness & Emergency Help
Homelessness advocacy, direct services and permanent-housing programs.
NYC citywide
Provides housing legal services, homelessness programs and supportive housing among broader services.
Upper West Side · West Harlem and NYC programs
Provides legal advocacy plus homeless, housing and older-adult services.
Upper East Side; additional citywide programs
Homelessness services, supportive housing and housing-stability programs.
Staten Island
Housing Policy & Advocacy
Citywide coalition advancing affordable housing, anti-displacement, equitable development and tenant power.
NYC citywide
Independent research organization advancing practical housing and planning policy.
NYC citywide
Statewide coalition organizing tenants and homeless New Yorkers for housing as a human right.
NYC and New York State
Economic-justice group advancing community land trusts and permanently affordable community-controlled housing.
NYC citywide
Affordable-housing policy and advocacy coalition focused on production and preservation.
NYC; New York policy
Coalition supporting community land trusts and community-controlled land and housing.
NYC citywide
Grassroots pro-housing organization advocating for more homes and lower housing costs.
NYC and New York State
Tenant-led coalition fighting eviction and defending the right to free counsel in Housing Court.
NYC; statewide advocacy as well
Membership and advocacy organization for nonprofit supportive-housing providers.
NYC and New York State
Legal Help & Housing Court
Free legal and advocacy services covering housing, workers' and immigrant rights.
Brooklyn and Queens
Disability-rights group advocating for accessible, affordable housing and fair-housing protections.
NYC citywide
Housing legal services, organizing and advocacy protecting low-income tenants from displacement.
Brooklyn and Queens
Civil-rights organization investigating housing discrimination and enforcing fair-housing protections.
NYC and surrounding New York counties
Housing legal services, tenant organizing and preservation work.
Hell's Kitchen / Clinton
Watchdog investigating real-estate fraud and housing discrimination and connecting tenants to legal help.
NYC-focused work; national organization
Free civil legal services, including eviction defense, tenant rights and foreclosure assistance.
All five boroughs
Free civil legal assistance including housing, eviction, foreclosure and disability-related housing matters.
NYC citywide
Free civil legal services and advocacy, including tenant, public-housing and homeowner rights.
NYC; some regional services
Community-lawyering organization supporting tenant organizing, equitable development and anti-displacement work.
NYC citywide
Free legal representation and advocacy for tenants, homeless New Yorkers and low-income households.
All five boroughs
Neighborhood Housing Organizations
Affordable housing, tenant/homeowner counseling and community development serving immigrant communities.
Lower Manhattan and Queens; broader NYC
Affordable-housing preservation, tenant organizing and community development.
South Bronx
Community-development corporation supporting affordable housing and neighborhood stability.
Bedford-Stuyvesant / Central Brooklyn
Affordable housing, homeownership and community-development programs.
Bedford-Stuyvesant / Central Brooklyn
Housing advocacy, tenant organizing and homeowner counseling.
Brighton Beach / southern Brooklyn
Housing counseling, homeownership support, foreclosure prevention and neighborhood preservation.
Bronx
Housing counseling, foreclosure prevention, homeownership and neighborhood preservation.
Brooklyn
Tenant organizing, affordable-housing development and community advocacy.
Southwest Brooklyn
Homeowner-protection network providing foreclosure, deed-theft and housing counseling resources.
NYC citywide
Housing counseling, tenant support and community development for South Asian and Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers.
Queens; broader NYC communities
Affordable-housing development, preservation and community services in Northern Manhattan.
Washington Heights · Hamilton Heights and Northern Manhattan
Tenant counseling, foreclosure prevention, affordable housing and community development.
Cypress Hills / East New York
Develops and preserves affordable housing and provides tenant and anti-displacement advocacy.
South and Central Brooklyn
Tenant advocacy, housing-resource programs and community services.
Flatbush / Central Brooklyn
Tenant advocacy, foreclosure prevention, affordable-housing development and financial counseling.
Central Brooklyn
Housing counseling and affordable-housing preservation/development organization.
Manhattan Valley / Upper West Side
Housing counseling, homebuyer assistance, foreclosure prevention and community development.
Far Rockaway / Rockaways / Queens
Housing counseling, homebuyer education, foreclosure prevention and home-improvement support.
Brooklyn
Housing counseling, homeownership assistance and neighborhood preservation.
Jamaica / Southeast Queens
Citywide housing counseling, homeownership and foreclosure-prevention services.
NYC citywide
Housing counseling, foreclosure prevention, homeownership and financial education.
Queens
Housing counseling, tenant support, foreclosure prevention and community development.
Northeast Bronx / Bronx Community Board 11
Housing counseling, foreclosure prevention and affordable-homeownership assistance.
Brooklyn
Affordable housing, tenant organizing and community services; home of CASA.
Southwest Bronx
Housing counseling and community-development services.
Staten Island
Community-led affordable housing, environmental justice and neighborhood development.
Melrose / South Bronx
Housing and community-development programs serving Rockaway residents.
Rockaways / Queens
Nonprofit supporting opportunity and community programs for NYCHA residents.
NYCHA communities citywide
Housing and homelessness-prevention assistance among broad community services.
Queens
Affordable housing, tenant services, rental assistance and anti-displacement programs.
Brooklyn and Queens
Affordable-housing development and preservation plus tenant-rights services.
South Williamsburg / North Brooklyn
Affordable housing, tenant resources and housing-application assistance.
Williamsburg / Greenpoint / North Brooklyn
Preserves affordable housing and provides housing and financial services.
Northwest Bronx
Settlement-house services including homelessness prevention and tenant assistance.
Lower East Side and broader NYC programs
Affordable housing and community development with family and economic-support programs.
Bronx
Tenant organizing, housing legal clinics and neighborhood advocacy.
Woodside / western Queens
Tenant Rights & Organizing
Tenant and public-housing organizing rooted in Asian immigrant communities.
Chinatown / Lower East Side and NYCHA communities
Tenant organizing, rights education and campaigns against harassment and displacement.
Southwest Bronx
Member-led organizing around public housing, tenant issues and economic justice.
NYC; also other New York communities
Tenant organizing, legal advocacy and affordable-housing preservation.
Lower East Side / East Village
Tenant union providing organizing, landlord accountability, court support and tenant-rights information.
Crown Heights
Tenant organizing, eviction defense, repair advocacy and connections to legal and social services.
Flatbush
Tenant rights counseling, organizing, affordable-housing assistance and anti-displacement advocacy.
Lower East Side / East Village
Tenant association protecting residents of the Independence Plaza complex.
Tribeca / Independence Plaza
Community coalition rooted in NYCHA residents advocating on housing, development and neighborhood quality of life.
Long Island City · Astoria · Woodside and Sunnyside
Tenant-rights counseling and organizing within a broader immigrant and worker justice organization.
Bushwick · western Queens · Staten Island and other NYC communities
Tenant membership organization offering organizing, rights education and a tenant hotline.
NYC citywide
Community organizing and services including housing and tenant advocacy for Korean and Asian immigrants.
Flushing / Queens; NYC
Member-led community organization with tenant and neighborhood justice organizing.
South Bronx
Community organization fighting eviction, displacement and housing unaffordability through organizing and advocacy.
NYC; New York State campaigns
Tenant advocacy, environmental justice and neighborhood planning.
Greenpoint / Williamsburg / North Brooklyn
Community organizing on housing, development, public investment and neighborhood power.
Northwest Bronx
Tenant association organizing, informing residents and advocating on management and housing issues.
Park West Village / Upper West Side
Tenant-led coalition advocating for preservation, rehabilitation and expansion of public housing.
NYC roots; national Section 9 advocacy
Coalition of tenants organizing across buildings owned or managed by a common landlord network.
NYC buildings in its landlord portfolio
Tenant association organizing around rent, services, protections and resident rights.
Stuyvesant Town / Peter Cooper Village
Tenant organizing and policy advocacy focused on renters and affordable housing.
NYC and New York State
Grassroots organization whose Homelessness Union advocates for permanent housing and anti-homelessness policy.
NYC and New York State