Please join LPE NYC for the first session in our series on what it really means to make NYC affordable, October 15, 6-8pm at New York Communities for Change (470 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY)
This first session will look at a topic on every New Yorker’s mind when it comes to affording to live in the city: housing. Why is it so hard to find affordable rent in New York? And why do the prices keep going up? Is “freeze the rent” a viable option? Join us October 15th, 6-8pm to get some answers to all these questions and others at the top of mind for New York tenants! You will hear from 3 activists/thinkers who think about housing – and have a lot to say!
Cea Weaver is the Director of Housing Justice for All and the New York State Tenant Bloc, sibling organizations that work together to strengthen tenant organization, advocate pro-tenant legislation, and elect tenants and their allies to public office in New York. She is also an advisor on housing policy to Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for NYC Mayor.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is a Professor of Sociology at NYU and the founding director of the Urban Democracy Lab, a center that currently works with more than a dozen housing rights organizations in the US and abroad on visioning plausible alternatives to market-based housing.
Joanne Grell is an organizer at Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), a membership-driven tenant organizing project of New Settlement Apartments’ that works primarily in the Southwest Bronx whose mission is to protect and maintain affordable safe housing through collective action.
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