Joint Letter to Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams in Support of the Community...
[Download PDF] May 16, 2023 [Resubmitted with additional signatories.] The Honorable Eric L. Adams Mayor, New York City City Hall New York, NY 10007 The Honorable Adrienne E. Adams Speaker, New York...
View ArticleCity Limits: Groups Tell Speaker Adams: Time is Now for ‘Social Housing’ Bills
[Read Original] By Emma Whitford Back in February, before housing policy fizzled out of state budget negotiations, the New York City Council held a hearing on bills aimed at boosting the supply of...
View Article110+ Groups Call on Mayor and City Council Speaker to Address Affordability...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE: May 17, 2023 Contact: Will Spisak, New Economy Project, will@neweconomynyc.org Will Depoo, ANHD, will.d@anhd.org Hannah Anousheh, East New York CLT, staff@eastnewyorkclt.org 110+...
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Community Groups, Tenants, and Electeds Rally at City Hall for Legislation,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE: June 22, 2023 Contact: Will Spisak, 347-804-8906, will@neweconomynyc.org Community Groups, Tenants, and Electeds Rally at City Hall for Legislation, Funding to Expand Community...
View ArticleThe Architect’s Newspaper: In New York, Proposed Legislation Grants...
[Read Original] By Charles Gebbia New York City has historically been a city at the front lines of housing justice and tenant activism. One of the entities at the forefront of this are Community Land...
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Gaining Ground: What’s Next for NYC’s Community Land Trusts?
Community land trusts (CLTs) are organizing across the city to bring land and housing into permanently affordable community control. On this engaging panel discussion, hear from East New York CLT,...
View ArticleBrooklyn Reader: BK’s 4 Community Land Trusts Could Revolutionize Affordable...
[Read Original] By Brennan LaBrie Community land trusts are expanding across the city, and during a panel at Pratt Institute last week, local leaders in the movement said the trend could mean big...
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From Grassroots Organizing to Land Victories: New York’s Community Land Trust...
By Abigail Savitch-Lew This month, New Economy Project co-sponsored two inspiring events that highlighted the community land trust (CLT) movement’s tremendous recent progress – and the urgent public...
View ArticleVice: NYC Is Giving Public Lands to For-Profit Developers That Price Out...
[Read Original] By Roshan Abraham New York City is giving away public lands to for-profit developers that build housing units largely unaffordable to locals, a new report has found. The report,...
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New Research Shows Nonprofits Vastly Outdid For-Profits in Creation of Deeply...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE: November 2, 2023 Contact: Will Spisak, 347-804-8906, will@neweconomynyc.org, Hayoung Jeong, East New York CLT, hjeong@gradcenter.cuny.edu, 914-451-9770 At City Hall Rally,...
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