We’ve compiled links to helpful sites with information on tenants’ rights, affordable housing and community organizations.
Metropolitan Council on Housing
- City-wide tenants’ rights membership organization that advocates and actively fights for tenants and tenants’ rights
- Website offers very helpful fact sheets on housing issues
- A hotline is run by volunteers and can provide information on tenants’ rights
New York State Tenants and Neighbors
- State-wide organization that fights for tenants’ rights and affordable housing
- Helps to develop new tenant associations and strengthen existing tenant associations
- Runs program in leadership tenants for low and moderate income tenants to be activists in their communities
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
- Neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977
- Dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development and community revitalization
West Side Neighborhood Alliance
- Independent, member-run organization sponsored by Housing Conservation Coordinators that mobilizes West Side residents to take charge of planning their community
- Advocates for a diverse, affordable, livable neighborhood that preserves the mixed-income character of today’s West Side
- Works to guarantee that the ongoing development of the neighborhood serves community members of all races, incomes and backgrounds.
- Organizes an annual West Side Tenants’ conference