Tenant Organizing, Tenant Workshops
 

Tenant Organizing

Our neighborhood has more housing code violations than any other in New York City, including failure to provide heat, lead paint violations, rats and other vermin, water infiltration, non-functioning bathroom fixtures, failure to provide adequate building security, broken windows, and collapsing ceilings. More and more, landlords are leaving apartments in disrepair in hopes of pushing the residents out and capitalizing on the neighborhood’s skyrocketing real estate market.

Impact:

  • In 2005, 810 residents of Washington Heights and Inwood were involved in organizing efforts with our Community Organizing Department;
  • We have organized tenant associations in over 250 buildings since 1981.
  • Many of our tenant leader go on to be active participants in our Union Comunal (Washington Heights and Inwood Community Union).

For more information: Contact Evan Hess at 212-822-8300 or For information on our tenant and leadership workshops, click here.

Tenant Workshops

Tenant workshops are held monthly. To find out when our next tenant workshop will be held, call our Community Organizing Department at 212-822-8300. For more information on our tenant organizing, see above.