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Commodifying Our Communities: The Case for Abolishing NYC’s Tax Lien Sale and Prioritizing CLTs in a New Tax Collection and Property Disposition System
This memo provides a brief introduction to CLTs and proposes alternatives to the lien sale that prioritize CLTs, in partnership with mission-driven, nonprofit developers, as both resources for vulnerable homeowners and recipients of foreclosed properties.
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Foreclosure Risk in New York State
This issue brief summarizes home foreclosure risk patterns across New York State, and updates our 2012 report, Foreclosures in New York: What’s Really Going On?, and 2014 brief, Foreclosure Risk in New York State.
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How Neighborhoods Help New Yorkers Get Ahead: Findings From the Collaborative for Neighborhood Financial Health
A summary of findings from the Collaborative for Neighborhood Financial Health, a year-long, participatory project designed to better understand and address how neighborhoods influence the financial health of their residents.
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Disparities in Economic Security for New Yorkers of Color 50 and Older
New Economy Project undertook this report, at the request of AARP, to examine barriers to economic security faced by 50+ New Yorkers of color, including immigrants. The analysis focuses on economic justice disparities statewide and in New York City, with attention also given to Long Island and Buffalo.
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NYC Foreclosure Prevention Gap Loan Program – Impact Report
An impact report on New Economy Project’s NYC Foreclosure Prevention Gap Loan Fund, which preserved more than $20 million in home equity for low income New Yorkers and has been replicated by New York City and State.
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Change It Up! How Banks Shape Neighborhoods and the Economy
A public policy poster that tells the story of how banks harm communities, and why we need a new economy that works for all. Produced by New Economy Project in collaboration with Center for Urban Pedagogy and designer Manuel Miranda.
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NYS Payroll Card Survey – Summary of Findings
Members of the NYS Payroll Card Working Group spoke to New Yorkers who work in retail, restaurant and other sectors to learn about their experiences with payroll cards. Here are the major problems the workers flagged.
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How Banks Sell Overdraft: Results of Overdraft Mystery Shopping in Four Key States
A joint report summarizing how banks, which reap billions from overdraft fees, misleadingly advertise overdraft to customers.
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Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC – Summary Report
Joint report summarizing opportunities to create a resource and advocacy hub to support cooperative economics in NYC. New Economy Project issued the report with Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives, SolidarityNYC, and The Working World.
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Foreclosure Risk in New York State
A research brief on home foreclosure patterns in New York City and State, six years after the financial meltdown.
- Reports and publications
– Our team of expert researchers and policy advocates identify the biggest threats to economic justice and develop community-driven solutions. - Education for community power
– Our community workshops and curricula help New Yorkers name and analyze systemic injustice and develop the systemic solutions they need. - Mapping for economic justice
– We help groups understand the geography of economic extraction, and plot out the alternatives.