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  • New York Law Journal: Win for Consumers: Second Circuit Reverses Debt Collection Suit

    New York Law Jounrnal — Attorneys for the plaintiffs in a debt collection suit lauded a decision Monday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, calling it a major victory for low-income people facing aggressive and potentially illegal collection practices.

  • NBC News: Despite Ban on Payday Lending, Public Pensions Profit from Outlawed Loans

    NBC News — Our Campaigns Director Andy Morrison talks to NBC’s I-Team about New York State and City’s investments in companies whose predatory loans are illegal in New York. 

  • Vice: Young Immigrants Are Rushing to Renew Paperwork Before Trump Kicks Them Out

    Vice — Over the past five years, Maggie Kawinski watched as her young clients’ lives slowly came into focus. The New York immigration attorney has been working with undocumented people covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program protecting those brought to the US as children since Barack Obama started it in 2012.

  • 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.

  • #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).

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.