Campaigns

NYCCLI is waging campaigns to combat speculation and evictions, stabilize and preserve deeply- and permanently-affordable housing, and advance a just recovery in Black and brown communities. Our campaigns are rooted in community organizing and carried out in coalition with groups throughout New York City and State.

Read more about our current campaigns, including:

The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (Intro 902-A) gives CLTs and other mission-driven nonprofits a first right to purchase certain multifamily buildings, when landlords decide to sell. Modeled on successful legislation implemented in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, COPA would curb speculation and level the playing field for nonprofits to expand the supply of permanently-affordable, community- and tenant-controlled housing.

The NYC Community Land Act is an urgently-needed set of bills that give community land trusts (CLTs) and other nonprofits tools to develop and preserve permanently-affordable housing, community and commercial spaces, and other critical needs. Together, these measures address root causes of our city’s affordability crisis, combat displacement of low-income New Yorkers, and build collective wealth in Black and brown communities.

The NYS Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act would empower tenants to collectively take control of their homes and create permanently affordable housing that stabilizes both disinvested and gentrifying communities. The state should also create a complementary funding program to ensure that this can be exercised by all tenants.