News & Events
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Daily News, Op-Ed: Call Off The Debt Collectors: The Coronavirus Pandemic is No Time to Demand Payment and Freeze Bank Accounts
Daily News, Op-Ed — In the best of times, predatory debt collection is a scourge that siphons wealth from New Yorkers, destabilizes neighborhoods and perpetuates racial and economic inequality. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing debt collectors to continue to hound New Yorkers and take their money is jeopardizing people’s lives.
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Daily News: Wanted, debt or alive: Put a pause on private debt collection during the coronavirus crisis
Daily News — At a time when millions of freshly jobless people are practicing emergency economic triage, debt collectors continue to chase judgments and seek to freeze bank accounts of those they say are in default. This is madness.
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Groups Call For Immediate Halt to Debt Collection During COVID-19, Deliver Petition to Governor Cuomo
Today, a coalition of nine groups delivered a petition, signed by more than 2,700 New Yorkers, to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, calling for an immediate moratorium on debt collection during the Covid-19 crisis, as a matter of public health and safety.
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Let’s Be Real Episode 11: New York State Community Equity Agenda Pt.1
The next four episodes of Let’s Be Real focus on the NYS Community Equity Agenda, a statewide coalition that is calling for economic development that is community-led and grounded in community wealth-building and racial and economic justice. Each episode zooms in on an Equity Agenda priority, from promoting community-controlled financial institutions to ending wealth extraction…
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(Archive) SIGN PETITION: Halt Debt Collection in NY Now!
Our team has been working remotely since the COVID-19 outbreak began in New York – feeling fortunate that we have that option. We are keeping our NYC Financial Justice Hotline open, and have received alarming calls from many New Yorkers who are being hounded by debt collectors, despite the crisis.
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The City: Court’s Halt on Filings Gives Partial Reprieve on New York Debt Collection
The City — New Yorkers facing down private debts in court will see some relief after advocates pushed Gov. Andrew Cuomo to put all collections on pause amid the coronavirus crisis.
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The City: Creditors Are Still Calling in People’s Debts. Advocates Beg Cuomo: Stop Them
The City — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has paused the collection of medical and student debt owed to New York State, ordered evictions halted and put a 90-day stay on mortgage payments and foreclosures for owners facing financial hardship.
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Daily News: Southeast Queens, Hungry for Opportunity: The Predominantly Black Middle-Class Swath of the City Can’t Get Banking Services
Daily News — Families and businesses in southeast Queens are being shunned by the banking system, possibly in violation of federal law. And that makes Rep. Gregory Meeks furious.
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From the Boogiedown to Beantown: A CLT Road Trip
This is the second in a series of reports on exchanges with community land trusts across the U.S. Read more about our visits with CLTs in California and Seattle.New Economy Project and NYC Community Land Initiative recently wrapped up a dynamic, two-year community land trust (CLT) learning exchange for NYC groups. In November, we took our…
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The Capitol Pressroom: Ending NY’s “banking deserts”
How will the state help address “public deserts”? Deyanira Del Río, Co-Director of the New Economy Project, and Andy Morrison, Campaigns Director for the New Economy Project, discussed the push for public banks.