We’re building a bloc of 250,000 tenants to win elections and take control over our homes.
There are over 9 million tenants in New York. We keep our state running every day. But now a small group of landlords and real estate executives holds disproportionate power over our homes, neighborhoods, and even our democracy.
The real estate industry is squeezing us for every dollar we’ve got, getting rich off our backs by raising our rents, refusing to make basic repairs, and pushing us out of the places we call home.
But we have the numbers: there’s millions more tenants than there are landlords. We have the power to break the real estate industry’s grip on our lives by uniting as a bloc, and working together in our homes, our neighborhoods, and at the ballot box.
The Tenant Bloc is fighting to:
Make Rent Affordable
Freeze the rent, strengthen tenants’ rights, and expand rent control to every renter
BUILD Homes for All
Create beautiful homes everyone can afford, built by union labor, through investing in social housing programs
House the homeless
Expand and create new safety net programs to help people pay the rent – keep people in their homes instead of in shelters and on the streets
Crack down on slumlords
Help tenants take over their buildings from predatory landlords and speculators and strengthen code enforcement
