Mar 5, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational, Tenant News
Back in September, the tenants of 950 Rutland met for the first meeting of their relaunched tenant association! A past tenant association fell apart years ago when one of the tenant leaders passed away and, also, when the nonprofit helping them organize stopped...
Mar 5, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational, Tenant News
Outpost Club, the property manager at 662 Madison Street, has been neglecting outstanding repairs, threatening rent hikes, and harassing tenants. The 662 Madison TA is fighting back!! Tenants and organizers from BED suspect that the building was illegally destabilized...
Mar 5, 2023 | Movement Power, Tenant News
On Saturday March 4th, in front of the offices of slumlord David Spindler, tenants across Brooklyn stood with Fidele — one of our most inspiring tenant leaders and members of Brooklyn Eviction Defense — as she demanded that the slumlord drop his bogus eviction case...
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. ...
