This studio worked with the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition to collect, analyze and narrate data pertaining to tenant experiences in the housing court process. RTCNYC is made up of tenant organizing groups, tenant advocates, legal service providers, homeless advocates, and a broad array of allies working to guarantee legal representation for tenants facing eviction [...]
With roots in the Civil Rights movement and a long history of helping marginalized people gain collective control of land, community land trusts (CLTs) are experiencing a wave of growth across the five boroughs of New York City. A land trust is a non-profit entity that removes land from the speculative marketplace and treats it [...]
Northeastern Queens (CD-11), encompassing the neighborhoods of Bayside, Douglaston, Douglas Manor, East Flushing, Little Neck, Auburndale, Oakland Gardens and Hollis Hills, in many ways resembles a slice of suburbia in New York City. The prevalence of single family homes, well-regarded public schools, low crime and ample parkland points to Northeastern Queens’ orientation towards families and [...]
