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El Diario: ¿Necesitas $495 para renovar DACA? La Ayuda Crece
El Diario — Ante la incertidumbre, la fecha límite y las ganas de colaborar para facilitar las cosas en lo posible a los acechados dreamers, organizaciones comunitarias, financieras y personas individuales están juntando esfuerzos para ayudar a renovar los documentos de DACA.
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#HereToStay – NYC Group Provides Rapid-Response DACA Renewal Grants
New Economy Project announced today that it has expanded its NYC DREAMer Loan Fund to provide rapid-response grants to New Yorkers applying for renewal of their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
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Standing Up For DACA
NYC DREAMer Loan Fund recipients Luz, Lidia, Itzel, Dulce, Keisha, and Alex. Hear their stories. New Economy Project is outraged by Trump’s termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that since 2012 has provided protection from deportation, work permits, and other opportunities to more than 40,000 New Yorkers and 800,000 people around the…
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Standing Up for DACA
We support the rights of DREAMers – and all immigrants – to live with dignity and justice. In the face of this attack, we are immediately expanding our NYC DREAMer Loan Fund. Over the next month, we will make 0% interest loans, and a limited number of grants, to cover DACA renewal fees for eligible…
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2017 Workshop Series
Thanks to those who helped make our 2017 workshop series great. Each workshop brought together organizers from community base-building groups across New York City to learn from and with each other.
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The Nation: The Solution to Our Housing Crisis Is to Let Communities Own Property
The Nation — New York used to be a place where an average Joe could come to make it in the big city, but these days the average New Yorker struggles just to make rent.
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NYC Public Advocate: PA James Unveils the Money Behind New York’s Worst Landlords
NYC Public Advocate, Press Release — Public Advocate Letitia James unveiled the ten banks that loan to the most buildings owned by the City’s Worst Landlord Watchlist. She called on these banks to reform their lending practices to protect tenants.
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Gothamist: NYC Just Made Its Biggest Commitment Ever To A Radical Affordable Housing Model
Gothamist — City Hall is slowly starting to invest in an affordable housing model that can permanently remove parcels of land from the speculative housing market in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.
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City Limits: City Dips Toe Into Funding Community Land Trusts
City Limits — Four New York City groups will receive a total of $1.65 million in funds from state bank settlements to assist in the development or expansion of community land trusts, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) announced today.
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Gothamist: Rogue Democrats Could Be Trying To Open New York Up To Payday Lenders
Gothamist — Payday loans are a poverty trap, a way to get the poor and desperate locked into a cycle of debt that traps them under an ever-increasing pile of high interest loans that they can’t pay back. Because of their nefarious nature, New York and 14 other states have banned such loans.
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NY1: Bad Credit
Road to City Hall — New Economy Project’s Sarah Ludwig and Deyanira Del Rio discuss a new proposal in Albany that threatens NYS’ protections against exploitative lending.
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Daily News: De Blasio, Stringer Announce City to Cut Ties with Wells Fargo
Daily News — The city will stop depositing its cash at Wells Fargo, after the bank got in hot water with the feds for discriminatory lending, Mayor de Blasio and City Controller Scott Stringer announced Wednesday.