Resources

Below is a collection of resources for affordable housing tenants and advocates.

Tenant Resources

• Tenant’s Right to Organize: Real Property Law 230 protects tenants right to form, join, or participate in tenant groups.
• Tenants Rights in Foreclosure:  A guide for tenants whose buildings fall into foreclosure: your rights during this time!
• How to Organize a Tenant’s Association(English and Spanish)
• What Happens in a Multi-Family Foreclosure (English and Spanish): This double-sided work sheet illustrates various outcomes of a foreclosure, and how that process could look for tenants. It also provides FAQ’s about foreclosure for tenants.
• HP Action Procedures (English)
• HP Action Procedures (Spanish)
• Models of Ownership (English)
• Models of Ownership (Spanish)
• HPD Heat/Hot water Record
• Apartment Condition Checklist (English)
• Apartment Condition Checklist (Spanish)
• Instructions for Using E-Courts/ Bronx County Clerk

Research and Reports

• Predatory Equity: Affordable Housing Under Attack: Our take on what’s happening in multi-family real-estate today
• Mapping Six NYC Slumlords: This map illustrates buildings where 6 major NY slumlords have successfully bought and deregulated apartments, forcing tenants out and permanently decreasing NY’s stock of affordable housing.
• Getting Started on Predatory Equity Research in Your City: This guide, developed by Tom Waters for the Community Service Society, is a handy way to learn more about Predatory Equity and begin to fight it in your community!
• Predatory Equity: Evolution of a Crisis: This guide, produced by ANHD, summarizes the Predatory Equity cycle between 2005-2009, and can be a useful guide to gain a better understanding of how Predatory Equity functions in NYC.
• Breaking the Banks: This report details our several year long campaign against New York Community Bank and explores how tenants and community groups worked with the bank to create a replicable program for revitalizing distressed rental housing across New York City.