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Join us here!Across New York State, students of color, low-income students, and students with disabilities are suspended disproportionately. Just last year alone, these students lost
Take Action!Every day workers are forced to accept unsafe or harmful working conditions and hesitate to speak up because they’re afraid they’ll lose their
Take Action!Join the fight to demand that Albany listen to tenants and homeless New Yorkers and demand a fundamental transformation of our housing system.
Take Action!Democrats in Congress hold the power to take bold leadership and deliver a long-awaited path to citizenship for millions. We need them to
Take Action!From immigrant and working-class communities across New York City, Long Island and Westchester
Yesterday the New York City Council took a major step to address the affordable housing and homelessness crisis. The crisis is enormous. There is a record number of people living in the city’s shelter system with average shelter stays of up to 773 days. Red tape and unnecessary eligibility requirements have made it difficult to…
We are thrilled to launch “Casita,” a manual for asylum seekers who have arrived in New York City. At a time when migrants are arriving and settling in the City, the manual aims to welcome, provide information and essential resources for their daily life, and guide them to access services, regardless of immigration status, and more.…
Yesterday, along with more than 200 tenants and students, we shut down the streets of Bushwick to call on New York State to pass Good Cause Eviction legislation this year. Rents and evictions are through the roof, driving New Yorkers onto the streets and out of the state in record numbers. Without Good Cause legislation,…
The ¡Reclamo! Tool was designed to help low-wage, immigrant workers seek economic justice by making wage theft claims and gathering data to inform activism. In the fall of 2018, Rodrigo Camarena caught an article in El Diario La Prensa, a Spanish-language newspaper in New York City, detailing the increase in wage theft for immigrant workers.…
Una nueva iniciativa legal tacha la norma que requiere que las personas permanezcan en refugios durante 90 días antes de recibir este subsidio. En medio de un colapso sin antecedentes del sistema de albergues para desamparados, el Concejo Municipal de Nueva York votó este jueves para aprobar una importante expansión del programa de subsidio de alquiler, CityFHEPS, conocido como ‘vales de vivienda’.…
La organización Make the Road NY, elaboró la guía “Bienvenidos a casita”, que da información sobre programas y recursos disponibles que ofrecen las agencias de Nueva York en asuntos como vivienda, escuelas, seguro médico, abogados de inmigración y despensas de alimentos, al igual que derechos laborales y consejos ante encuentros con autoridades como “La Migra”…