May 28, 2022 | Movement Power, Political Education
Across the city, and particularly in neighborhoods being targeted by mega-landlords and developers for gentrification, tenants are facing massive rent increases. In many cases, these rent hikes are tantamount to eviction. Most of us are already struggling to get by at...
May 10, 2022 | Moratorium, Movement Power, Non-Profits, Republication
originally published in the Brooklyn Rail 1 Brooklyn Eviction Defense formally condemns the ending of New York State’s eviction moratorium. As an organization of tenants dedicated to fighting and stopping displacement by any means necessary, we...
Apr 26, 2022 | Letters, Movement Power
Another paradigm is possible – alternatively, where dispossessory pieces of paper (eviction notices) are unenforceable; where profit-motives do not demolish peoples, cultures, and histories; where rent-free, de-commodifed housing exists for all. ...
Mar 18, 2022 | Letters, Movement Power, Non-Profits
a paper written by comrade on the stoop during the 964 Park Place Defense – 2 March 2022 During a recent Housing Justice For All (HJ4A) field call, one of the coalition’s two paid staff organizers led the 50+ tenant organizers in a reading and discussing of...
Feb 23, 2022 | Movement Power
replubilshed statement by Outlive Them NYC: Last night, we were honored to welcome in Shabbat with the Robinson family and their supporters at 964 Park Place, where a weeklong eviction defense has held strong against violent attempts to displace them from their...
Feb 18, 2022 | Movement Power
Frank Morales is a priest and activist involved in housing justice in NYC since the 1970s. Frank has more recently been organizing with GOLES, a grassroots organization that empowers low and moderate income LES/Loisaida residents, specifically POC through direct...