News & Events
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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.
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Predatory Lending? There’s an App for That
By Andy Morrison New York stands at a crossroads in the fight against predatory lending. One path would open the floodgates to triple-digit interest loans—marketed as sleek, smartphone apps but designed to trap working people in debt. The other would strengthen the state’s centuries-old usury law and protect New Yorkers from a new wave of…
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Amid Federal Disinvestment and Regulatory Rollbacks, New York Coalition Calls for Public Banks to Spur Local Investment
Community groups, labor unions, credit unions and elected officials from across the state rallied at the New York State Capitol to demand legislative action on public banking.
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BK Reader: Tenants Rally in Brooklyn for First Rights to Buy Building
BK Reader — Tenants, housing advocates and elected officials rallied outside a South Slope apartment building on April 26 to call for the passage of the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, or TOPA, which would give renters the first chance to purchase their buildings when landlords put them up for sale.
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The Village View: Affordable Housing? Bill Designed to Give New Leverage to Tenants and Nonprofit Housing Groups Moves Forward
The Village View — “Whose land? Our land!” shouted a boisterous crowd of tenant leaders and organizers, as they rallied on the steps of City Hall on April 11, urging the city council to move ahead with the Community Land Act (CLA).
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Bronx Talk: Credit Unions
Bronx Talk — This week’s BronxTalk takes a look at the recent opening of ‘The Bronx People’s Federal Credit Union’ in Longwood and why this is significant for a community that has been red-lined and underserved in the past.
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Capitol Pressroom: AG Tish James Goes After De Facto Payday Lenders
Capitol Pressroom — New York State Attorney General Letitia James is going after de facto payday lending operations that she claims are engaging in abusive and deceptive practices. Andy Morrison, associate director of the New Economy Project, discusses the attorney general’s lawsuit and makes the case for stricter regulations of online financial services.