New York’s Leading Labor Leaders Call on Albany To Enact The Emergency Housing Stability and Displacement Prevention Act
Key Legislation Would Protect Hundreds of Thousands of New Yorkers From Residential and Commercial Eviction
NY Courts Extend Eviction Moratorium until October 1, Housing Advocates Call for Passage of A Real Eviction Moratorium and Cancel Rent Legislation
Today, the Office of Court Administration (OCA) issued a new order that extends the universal eviction moratorium until at least October 1, 2020 for all New Yorkers
Our Response to HCR’s “COVID-19 Rent Relief”
Members of the Housing Justice For All Coalition issued a letter today to New York’s Division of Homes & Community Renewal (DHCR) urging the State Housing Agency to extend the application deadline for an additional four weeks for the COVID-19 Rent Relief Program.
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Response to SHARP
We know that rent assistance is the most immediate way to help New Yorkers escape homelessness and those at risk of homelessness, avoid eviction.
NY Leaders Demand Passage of “Good Cause” Eviction Legislation in 2020
Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, New York State Senator Julia Salazar, and District Council 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido call on Albany to pass the “Good Cause” eviction bill on the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the legislation (S2892/A5030).
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Housing Justice for All responds to Speaker’s opening speech
Today Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie responded to what homeless New Yorkers and tenants have been saying for years: our state is in crisis and it’s time to end homelessness once and for all.
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Eliminate 421-a and 485-a; Fully fund public housing
Public housing across the state is in severe disrepair, yet our state keeps funneling billions in subsidies and tax breaks to corporate landlords and developers.
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Urgent Letter to Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Heastie from the Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance and the Housing Justice For All Campaign
We are writing with urgency as session comes to a close and the State legislature is negotiating tenants’ rights in New York.
Letter from Faith Leaders to Gov Cuomo, State Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Heastie:
As leaders of faith communities from across the state, we are called to stand with the most vulnerable among us – New Yorkers who can barely afford to live here anymore.
letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, and Speaker Carl Heastie from the Upstate-DownState Housing Alliance
We’ll get right to the point: the landlord lobby and real-estate industry have wielded too much power in state government for way too long.