In many ways, New York has long been ahead of the United States when it comes to housing policy. We built the first public rental housing in the nation. Our rent stabilization system features some of the country’s strongest tenant protections. Mitchell Lama and union-built cooperatives
The Fair Fares program is a lifeline for low-income New Yorkers struggling with transit affordability in a city with ever-rising costs of living. While we continue to fight for an expansion of the program to at least 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL), as is well documented in
We honor the memory of all those who lost their lives to Covid-19, including our friend and colleague Tom Waters. Learn more about Tom’s work as a fierce advocate for low-income tenants.