JFREJ’s *New* Campaign:

Housing Justice Campaign

What is it?

A campaign to address the housing crisis in NYC and the massive displacement of people.  We will use a variety of strategies, including enforcement and strengthening of rent laws, inclusionary zoning, tenant protections, and other tools.  Outreach, direct action, political education, and arts and cultural work will be key for mobilizing our members and raising up this issue to the powers that be. Through our participation in citywide coalitions as well as local organizing, we will stop the loss of hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units from rent-regulated to market-prices, and require that new development projects do not pass without the creation of more affordable housing.

Who are our partners?

JFREJ is currently active in a city-wide housing coalition– Right to the City.  Right to the City is an unprecedented coalition of housing groups, community and neighborhood organizations.  The Right to the City is a new convening of groups to share progressive strategies for fighting gentrification and to take action together around common targets.  Members include FIERCE, CAAAV, FUREE, GOLES, Picture the Homeless and the Urban Justice Center.

In what neighborhoods are we active?

JFREJ will work both at a citywide and local level.  Currently, JFREJ has joined with GOLES (the Good Old Lower East Sid) and SPARC (the Seward Park Area Renewal Coalition) to create new low and moderate income housing in Seward Park on the Lower East Side, the last tract of vacant city-owned un-developed land in Manhattan below 96th St.  Check out this article in the New York Times about the barriers to development.JFREJ has worked with the Coalition to Preserve Communities on the campaign to fight the un-principled expansion of Columbia University into West Harlem (www.stopcolumbia.org). 

How can I get involved?

Contact JFREJ at 212-647-8966 x12 or via email. To set up an individual meeting or get more information, and sign-up to receive our action alerts click here.  Chek out upcoming meetings and events here. We need you!  Come to an intergenerational study group, a campaign meeting, a mobilization, an arts/culture event, or help do outreach.  The more people we have the stronger we are, so let’s organize, organize, organize!

Resources:

Check out resources from the recent Chanukah Housing Forum--