There’s still time to RSVP for our Know Your Rights workshop this weekend!

Next week: Know Your Housing Rights Workshop with @fttenantunion & @bhipbk

Saturday, January 24th from 1:00-3:00 PM – 226 Lefferts Pl, BK 11238

RSVP: tr.ee/YMnWa6LvtY

Save the date: Know Your Rights Workshop with Full Time Tenant Union & Bushwick Housing Independence Project – Saturday, January 24th from 1:00-3:00 PM – 226 Lefferts Pl, BK 11238

Knowing your rights is not the end of the struggle, but it is a critical starting point. RSVP link: tr.ee/YMnWa6LvtY

New Year, New Workshops!

Join TakeRoot and IMPACCT BK for a Know Your Rights training on immigration and ICE on Thursday, January 8th from 6-7:30pm

Social Housing Supporters Revive Push to Boost Nonprofit & Community Ownership - City Limits The social housing proposals, known together as the Community Land Act, are the latest attempt to create affordable housing by removing real estate from the speculative market.

City Council held hearings on the Community Land Act this week and many advocates rallied in support. These bills prioritize and empower nonprofits by removing real estate from the speculative market. Get the full story here: citylimits.org/social-housi...

Opinion: NYC Needs Land and Housing for People, Not Profit - City Limits "As the city and state pour subsidies into for-profit development that fails to serve those most in need, Community Land Trusts (CLTs) offer a proven and powerful way to ensure lasting affordability, ...

This week, the City Council held a historic hearing on the Community Land Act, Backed by 150+ community groups, it would empower CLTs and nonprofits to expand permanently affordable housing in low-income and Black and brown neighborhoods.

Learn more about it here: citylimits.org/opinion-nyc-...

Protest Halts Hearing on NYC Tax Lien Sale System Activists, attorneys, and small landlords call for an end to the program they say fuels displacement and speculation.

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The task force should return to its mandate and propose meaningful alternatives. That includes prioritizing early intervention in the foreclosure process and allowing city agencies—not private speculators—to step in.

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Last Wednesday, HSU joined @hscny.bsky.social, @legalaidnyc.bsky.social and @takerootnyc.bsky.social in demanding the City to #PayNonprofitsOnTime. 🗣️

Inside the Battle to Save One of the Last SROs in the East Village Tenants say their landlord has been harassing them to move out of their cheap housing. He says he's just following City orders.

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"To the tenants and their attorneys, the demolition of their communal spaces, the eviction attempts, as well as Geylik's claim that they need to vacate their building for him to make necessary repairs are all part of an effort to get residents to move out" (2/3)

"With the help of the Cooper Square Committee, a tenants' rights nonprofit, and Take Root Justice, the tenants are suing Geylik for harassment, while seeking a court order to ensure their SRO units are not demolished or reduced in size." (1/3) @hellgatenyc.com

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- comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/nonp... (5/5)

"Paying non-profits on time is essential to ensure our doors remain open and our services continue for New Yorkers who need them most.” (4/5)

“But today is a day of action and we are thrilled to see Speaker Adams and members of City Council elevate this issue through proposed legislation and oversight, to bring about real change." (3/5)

“Time and time again the non-profit sector has been told by the City to wait, that improvements to contracting and more timely payments were to come, and still the delays continue,” said Keriann Pauls, Interim Executive Director, TakeRoot Justice. (2/5)

TakeRoot was proud to join @council.nyc.gov and our non-profit partners and demand solutions to "longstanding nonprofit contract registration and payment delays that currently threaten the delivery of essential services." (1/5)

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Today, he continues to profit while tenants suffer in dangerous, unlivable homes—many still reeling from the aftermath of a devastating fire on February 14, 2025. (5/5)

Piller has a long track record of neglect. In 2014 and 2015, he was publicly named one of NYC’s Worst Landlords. In 2016, gross negligence in one of his buildings led to the horrific deaths of two infants in a radiator explosion at 720 Hunts Point Avenue. (4/5)

The press conference will spotlight the ongoing crisis at 2000–2006 Ellis Avenue, 1212 Pugsley Avenue, and 2028–2032 Cross Bronx Expressway, where tenants are facing inhumane living conditions, and forced displacement. (3/5)

This event, organized by the Tenant Union Against Moshe Piller and the Workers’ Movement for Liberation, calls on press and community supporters to stand with tenants in their fight for dignified housing. (2/5)

On Saturday, May 3rd at 5:00 PM, tenants from six Bronx buildings owned by notorious landlord Moshe Piller will hold a press conference to demand accountability, safe housing, and an end to systematic slumlord neglect. (1/5)

Prospect Heights Tenants Rally at Housing Court to Get Landlord to Make Repairs Tenants at 552 Dean St. say their homes have been covered in mold, leaks and pests for years. They rallied in front of Kings County Housing Court to make Gilman Management Corp. make the necessary rep...

Rex Santus, attorney representing the tenants, said the tenants "are not asking for much- just a safe place to live. We shouldn’t have to resort to the courts to get that, but that’s the reality in New York City, and that’s why we’re here today," he said.
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Today, we rallied in front of the Housing Court to support the 552 Dean Street Tenants Association. After enduring years of poor conditions and neglect, we are determined to get justice and hold their landlord, the GMC, accountable.

#TenantRights #HousingJustice #NYCTenants

9 yrs after killing #DelrawnSmall, a new court ruling protects Officer Isaacs by resealing the murder trial records. Mr. Small’s siblings respond with disappointment & resolve to continue the fight for @NYPDPC @NYCMayor to #FireWayneIsaacs. Full statement: bit.ly/small-court

Housing discrimination is illegal, yet it continues to persist. Thousands of voucher holders in NYC are unlawfully denied housing by landlords who refuse to rent to them. The End Source of Income Discrimination Bill Package is here to change that.

Help us support our NYCHA tenants by rallying with us tomorrow morning at City Hall to tell NYCHA and the City Council of New York: No Demolition of Public Housing!