News & Events
-
Dec 10, 2025: 2025 Holiday Celebration
Join us for our annual celebration of community and solidarity at our 2025 Holiday Gathering!
-
Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) Reaches Supermajority in City Council, as New Yorkers Deliver 1,000+ Postcards to Speaker Adams Demanding Passage of the Bill
As housing crisis deepens, New Yorkers’ Halloween-themed action calls for permanently affordable community- and tenant-controlled housing
-
The Nation: Community Land Trusts Are Standing Up to New York City’s Worst Landlords
New legislation could accelerate a growing movement of tenants who refuse to be at the mercy of developers and want to take ownership of their communities’ resources.
-
Campaign Breakthroughs, Exposing Predatory Lenders, and More
This summer, New Economy Project has been on the move—taking on predatory lenders, pushing for transformative change in our housing system, and much more. Check out our latest round-up for exciting updates and ways to take action!
-
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
-
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.
-
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…
-
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.
-
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.…
-
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.