The Goddard Riverside Law Project provides free legal services and helps low-income tenants on the UWS organize to defend their homes. Housing is a human right!
Join us this MONDAY, 3/4 @ 2:30pm on Zoom for a virtual phone and postcard drive in support of #StatewideRTC. Make sure your electeds know that NYS tenants need passage & funding of #RTC THIS YEAR to fight evictions and homelessness. Zoom here: https://t.co/PoouffIMaw
🚨PHONE ZAP🚨
On Wednesday November 1st we're calling Chief Judge Rowan Wilson to demand that he issue an administrative order to pausing all cases until tenants get their Right to Counsel!!
#evictionfreenyc@CASAbronx@Flatbushpower @northwestbronx @Met_Council
💥Thursday October 19th💥
The Manhattan Borough Board UNANIMOUSLY passed a resolution in favor of Statewide RTC!! Thank you for your support
@NYCCouncil must pass our resolutions! We need to Defend and Expand Right to Counsel.
In Upper Manhattan, roughly 50% of residents are rent-burdened. Meanwhile, Central Harlem has the highest rate of child asthma emergency department visits in Manhattan. It's time for transformative change to our land and homes! Join our town hall next Wednesday:
When RTC was upheld, evictions were down, landlords sued tenants less, and almost 85% of tenants who had #RTC stayed in their homes. Now, more than 19,000 tenants are being denied their rights. We must #DefendRTC! #EvictionFreeNYC. Join us on Monday!
What could be a better way to spend a Friday night than to testify in support of your neighbors, tenants rights and our future!? We'll have dinner, music and a powerful community! Join us next Friday! RSVP + Sign up to Testify: https://t.co/YlUAftDMcw #DefendRTC
HAPPENING TONIGHT: We are fighting for better housing conditions within our buildings & communities during a tenant-led & centered town hall from 6:30-8:00pm at the #JCCHarlem (318 W 118th St).
Our legislators work for US! And they need to hear from us that nothing short of fighting like hell for tenants’ rights is acceptable! Join us this Mon, 1/23 for a virtual training on Grassroots Lobbying. Event will be in spanish & english. Register here: https://t.co/Ha6M5iZ7uj
Johnny Barnes played Sugar Ray Robinson in the 1980 classic Raging Bull. Nowadays he's a fighter for housing rights—both his own and those of his fellow SRO tenants. https://t.co/Oq3ml12sTq
TONIGHT at 6p online: Learn about rental assistance programs (other than ERAP) at my office's monthly Housing Clinic. Register at https://t.co/KxupKrWNvv
CASA is out here at BX Housing Court letting tenants know about their #RightToCounsel & recruiting for #EvictionFreeBronx campaign!!
If u r a tenant w/ an eviction case and you can't pay your back rent DON'T LEAVE STAY & FIGHT!
DM or go to https://t.co/TueYLHT4rn to join us!
4/RTCNYC stands in solidarity with all tenants fighting to build tenant power and win a Right to Counsel in housing court. If you’re involved in a campaign to #StopEviction and win RTC, send us your stories 💪💪
3/Meanwhile, in Miami, @MiamiWorkersCtr is fighting hard for their Right to Counsel! Last week, they rallied outside the Miami-Dade courthouse to publicize the city’s astronomical rent hikes that threaten thousands of tenants with eviction, and called for a Miami #RTC!
🧵1/TENANT POWER TUESDAYS: Did you know all across the country, tenants are fighting for a #RightToCounsel? While we fight for #StatewideRTC here in NYS, tenants in cities & states across the U.S. are launching and WINNING campaigns for Right to Counsel in housing court.