Apr 2, 2023 | Movement Power
Yesterday the tenants of 810-828 Midwood told their story. Theirs is a story of neglect, corruption, exploitation and harassment. The tenants live in a Michtell-Lama cooperative. The Mitchell-Lama program provides affordable rental and cooperative housing to moderate-...
Mar 25, 2023 | Movement Power, Tenant News
Our bargaining committee delegates from 649 Empire TA (representing over 70% of a 54 unit building who signed on to our collective demands ) met with landlord Michael Niamonitakis of Meridian Properties LLC. We presented an itemized list of our collective conditions...
Mar 14, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational, Tenant News
The bargaining committee at 649 Empire TA met last night to iron out our demands and resolve for today’s negotiation with our the Landlord! We sent our demands out last monday and were met with a prompt response a day later from the landlord. This was no...
Mar 13, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational, Political Education
In conversation with the Justice Initiative of the Brooklyn Public Library: Part One Part Two We discussed what New Yorkers can do to organize tenant associations in their buildings, the history of working-class eviction defense, and what new strategies have emerged...
Mar 8, 2023 | Movement Power, Organizational
Tenants from across Brooklyn came together at the Central Brooklyn Library last Sunday, March 5th, to reflect on the organizing work, health and capability of Brooklyn Eviction Defense. We heard reflections and report back from our working groups — including Black,...
Mar 5, 2023 | Movement Power, Political Education
Members of Brooklyn Eviction Defense took some #CancelRent banners to the dance floor at Nowadays this October on a panel with our comrades from Tenant Union Flatbush and Met Council on Housing to talk about building tenant power, one of many popular education efforts...
