Crown Heights Tenant Union

Politics

Neighbors & Community Leaders Call On Albany To End Tax Break For Luxury Real Estate Developers

Facing the 23-story development that looms over the row of delis, pharmacies, and other mom-and-pop shops that line Flatbush Avenue, more than 100 people gathered at 626 Flatbush Avenue Thursday morning to protest the 421-a [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/tax-incentives-421a.page] tax exemption program that neighbors said

Albany

Neighbors Take To The Streets To Fight For Affordable Housing

Waving signs emblazoned with such phrases as “people over property,” “criminal charges for criminal landlords,” and”stop displacement now,” neighbors took to the streets to fight for affordable housing this past Saturday, when the Flatbush Tenant Coalition and other social justice groups led a march [/blog/events/join-flatbush-tenant-coalition-housing-justice-march-saturday] from Crown