News & Events
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NY Coalition Blasts Wall Street’s Latest Scheme – Underwriting Payday Loans to Low-Wage Workers
NY Coalition Blasts Wall Street’s Latest Scheme: Underwriting Payday Loans to Low-Wage Workers
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More Perfect Union: I Needed My Paycheck Early. Then I Got Cheated by These Apps.
Our Associate Director Andy Morrison speaks to More Perfect Union about a new breed or predatory lenders – so called Earned Wage Access apps.
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New York Focus: ‘Zombie Debts’ Refuse to Die, Haunting New Yorkers for Decades
Many sewer service victims aren’t aware if their servers have been disciplined or found to be engaging in misconduct “because there’s no way to track every case that server worked on,” said attorney Elena Rodriguez, who helps clients with sewer service cases at the nonprofit New Economy Project. Sewer service is particularly widespread in the…
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Reclaiming Our Money, Reclaiming Our Power: Strategy and Solidarity at the Public Banking Convening
On May 20, advocates, organizers, and financial justice leaders from across the country came together in Washington, D.C., to mark the release of Public Banks for Racial Equity: Democratizing Finance to Build Community Wealth, a joint report from New Economy Project and Dēmos.
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New York Times: Grand Theft A.T.M.: A Bodega Crime Wave Hits New York
New York Times — The number of bank branches in New York City dropped nearly 20 percent from 2015 to 2024, according to the New Economy Project, an advocacy group. In 2018, as the drop was underway, neighborhoods with largely Black and Hispanic residents averaged just one branch per 10,000 people, according to the group.…
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New York Focus: 5 Key Takeaways From Our Investigation Into ‘Sewer Service’
New York Focus — For decades, people being sued in New York City civil courts over unpaid debt never learned about the lawsuits against them.
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New York Focus: Have You Been Sued for Credit Card Debt? Your Fake Relative Might Know.
New York Focus — Last April, Sam Gordon, a Harlem resident who works with people experiencing drug addiction, got a notice in the mail: Thousands of dollars were about to be garnished from his wages.
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City Limits Opinion: NYC Needs Land and Housing for People, Not Profit
City Limits Opinion — From the South Bronx to East New York and beyond, communities are working to reclaim land for public good, take housing off the speculative market, and ensure permanent affordability—through community land trusts (CLTs) and neighborhood-led development.
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City Limits: Social Housing Supporters Revive Push to Boost Nonprofit & Community Ownership
City Limits — Social housing advocates rallied in Foley Square on Tuesday ahead of a City Council hearing on a package of bills aiming to de-privatize residential properties across the five boroughs.
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Council Holds Historic Hearing on Social Housing Package as NYC’s Housing Crisis Hits Breaking Point
On Tuesday, the NYC Council held a historic hearing to consider multiple broadly supported social housing bills that would remove land and housing from the speculative market and bring them into permanently affordable, democratic community control.