The Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition and the Bronx Community Land Trust are bringing abandoned land into community control. Check out this video highlighting their groundbreaking organizing work, and stay tuned for part 2! #communitylandtrusts#bronxny#bronx
This summer, @New York Focus published a powerful investigation into the ongoing scourge of “sewer service”—the practice of debt collectors fraudulently claiming they served court papers when they didn’t. It echoed what our hotline hears every day: low-income New Yorkers, especially Black and brown communities, are routinely hit with default judgments in cases they never knew existed. In this video, New Economy Project’s Elena Rodriguez explains how sewer service works—and how to fight back. (Bonus: a cameo by our own Tousif Ahsan as a particularly dodgy process server.)
At today’s Social Housing Festival and Speak-Out in Foley Square, we called on NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to pass the CommunityLandAct! Learn more and take action: tinyurl.com/ActCLA
New Yorkers Speak Out: Drew Brown shares his experience with the cash advance app EarnIn. Cash advance apps target workers, disingenuously promising early access to their wages at little or no cost. In reality, these companies issue loans with high interest rates disguised as “fees” and “tips,” which drain users’ bank accounts and force them to borrow over and over again. This scheme traps people in debt cycles and extracts wealth from working New Yorkers; our recent study found payday loan apps have drained $500 million+ from New Yorkers’ paychecks. Learn more at linktr.ee/neweconomyproject.
🔈Our Tousif Ahsan breaks down why it’s time for New York City to divest from Wall Street banks and establish a NYC public bank! 🚨 Action Alert: Join us next Tuesday, May 13, at 9 am as we rally outside 1 Centre Street to demand a public bank. At 10 am, the NYC Banking Commission will vote on which banks can hold city deposits.
What’s #TOPA? Why are residents across New York fighting for its passage in the New York State legislature? Listen and learn! Read more about this groundbreaking legislation at nyccli.org/topa. Contact your legislators and tell them to support TOPA using our contact tool at neweconomynyc.org/topa Music: “Southside” by Yuey https://soundcloud.com/yueyonthebeat Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0)
New Yorkers Speak Out – 2024 Community Land Act Town Hall Series
New Yorkers Speak Out – Ms. Jones (captioned in multiple languages)
Community Land Trusts on the Rise!
Spring 2023 Briefing for Supporters
Public Bank NYC
Fall 2022 Briefing for Supporters
Summer 2022 Briefing for Supporters
New Yorkers Speak Out: Ms. Sandoval
Spring 2022 Briefing for Supporters
New Yorkers Speak Out: Mr. Rosa Martínez
Public Banking Around the World: Lessons for New York
Fall Briefing for Supporters
Public Bank Campaign Highlight Reel
Mid-Year Briefing for Supporters
The New York State Community Equity Agenda – 2020
WBAI Speaks with New Economy Project and New York Communities for Change
WNYC Coverage of Public Bank NYC Rally, May 2019
NYC Banking Commission – May 2019 Rally Promo
CLTs For NYC!
New York State Equity Agenda – Caucus Weekend 2019
CDFI Profile – Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union
Public Bank NYC – Climate Finance Day
New Yorkers Speak Out: Screwed By Banks
New Yorkers Speak Out: Debt Collection
New Yorkers Speak Out: Debt Collection
Public Bank NYC Campaign Launch
Public Bank NYC – Wall Street Vs. NYC Family Feud
New Economy Project Speaks Out: Nine Ideas for the New Year
New Yorkers Speak Out: Community Land Trusts
NYCCLI: New York, We Got a Problem
New Yorkers Speak Out: DREAMer Loan Fund
New Yorkers Speak Out Against Employment Credit Checks
New Yorkers Speak Out Against Wells Fargo’s Lending & Foreclosure Practices
“I’m just struggling, struggling. It’s me alone, I have no help. I want to stay in my house. ” – Verjie, Cambria Heights, Queens homeowner
“I want my home. I want to pay for my home. But I don’t want to pay for [Wells Fargo’s] mistakes.” – Audrey, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn homeowner
“I owe Wells Fargo…more than $600,000. My home is worth $350,000.” – Monica, Queens Village, Queens homeowner
“If Wells Fargo helped me through the modification process, I know I could afford it. But they’ll have nothing to do with us.” – Alvin, Cambria Heights, Queens homeowner