About this Project

Who We Are

The Right to Counsel NYC Coalition is made up of tenant organizing groups, tenant advocates, homeless advocates, senior advocates, disability advocates, academics, legal services organizations and more! We led the campaign that resulted in the passage of Local Law 136, which ensures that low-income tenants are represented in eviction cases by attorneys when they defend their rights and their homes.  The Coalition is actively organizing and advocating while this law is being phased in.

JustFix is a nonprofit that builds technology for tenants and organizers fighting displacement. We currently support over 50 long-standing tenants rights organizations, legal aid, and neighborhood groups. We envision a New York for all - a place where working-class families can thrive without fear of landlord harassment or displacement.

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a volunteer-run data visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting the dispossession of residents in gentrifying landscapes. Originally founded in the San Francisco Bay Area to support anti-displacement efforts in the wake of the latest tech boom, the collective expanded to New York City and Los Angeles in 2017, and has since been collaborating with NYC residents and community groups to document stories of displacement.

Acknowledgements

• Huge thank you to the collaborative efforts of the Housing Data Coalition, the Right to Counsel Coalition, BetaNYC, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, the University Neighborhood Housing Program, and JustFix. Representatives of these groups spent years working to gain access to eviction filings data in service of tenant organizing in NYC, which is the primary data source that made this project possible.

• Thanks to the organizers and tenant leaders in the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC), Flatbush Tenant Coalition (FTC), Catholic Migration Services (CMS), Community Voices Heard (CVH) and CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, for their thoughtful feedback on the design of the site and for conducting the research and interviews needed to tell the stories about the Worst Evictors and the organizing to challenge them, and for their courage to fight evictions.

• Deep thanks to Marika Dias from the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center for reviewing all of the content.

• Thank you to Kayla Schwartz, Jenny Laurie, Marlene Casanova, and Kayla Popuchet from Housing Court Answers and to Sam Corman from Brooklyn Legal Services Corp A for their research on the law firms.

• Thanks to Rob Robinson and Lynn Lewis from Picture the Homeless for their guidance and feedback for the Evictions Map

• Thanks to Sebastian Hau-Walker and Glen Forster for fact checking the Evictors List, generating website content, and for providing general creative insight.

• Thank you to the entire team at the Anti Eviction Mapping Project for your tireless work and your commitment to the tenant organizing movement in NYC.

• Deep deep gratitude to the team at JustFix, but especially to Sam Rabiyah for all of their hard work and love that went in to analyzing the data, generating the list, and building the website.