WHO WE ARE
Housing Justice for All is a statewide coalition of over 80 groups representing tenants and homeless New Yorkers, united in our fight for housing as a human right.
How it started…
We were founded in 2017 in Albany, New York at a meeting of grassroots community groups committed to take on the power that the real estate industry wields in our State.
HISTORIC LEGISLATION
In 2019, we shocked the political establishment and won the strongest tenant protections in New York in generations. We were just getting started.
COVID-19 and #CancelRent
In 2020, we organized thousands of people to resist eviction and fight for a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eviction Moratoria
In 2021, we won one of the strongest, longest lasting eviction moratoria in the country — saving thousands of lives.
Kingston wins Rent Stabilization
In 2022, tenants took on the rent crisis and organized to make Kingston the first upstate city to opt into rent stabilization since the 1970s.
Our Homes, Our Power
In 2023, we launched a fight for a bold new platform: five bills that ensure all New Yorkers have safe, stable homes and move us towards a future of social housing.
Our campaign is led by the people who are fighting to afford housing in New York every single day.
Meet some of our many leaders:
Najee Wilson
Winsome Pendergrass
Vincia Barker
The Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance is a diverse coalition of tenants, homeless people, manufactured housing residents, and advocates from across New York. We represent New Yorkers from every part of the state: Long Island, New York City, Westchester County, the Hudson Valley, the Capital Region, the Southern Tier, the Mohawk Valley and Western New York.
The Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance is fiscally sponsored by VOCAL-NY, which is a 501c3 nonprofit, EIN: 13-4094385. All gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.