Program: Tenant Organizing
Program Snapshot: NMIC organizers support tenant associations and tenant leaders as they build their independent capacity and accomplish their goals to improve their housing quality, affordability, and stability.
Services: Based on tenant association need and capacity, services can include
- Training for tenants and tenant leaders.
- Support from NMIC's Legal Services Department such as representation in administrative and legal proceedings to address repairs, rent overcharges, and other issues.
- Connection to broader community organizing efforts.
Eligibility: Tenants living in the following zip codes may be eligible
- 10025 (above West 109th Street or between West 106th and 109th Streets east of Broadway)
- 10026 - 10027
- 10029 (above East 96th Street)
- 10030 - 10037
- 10039
- 10040
- 10452 - 10453
How to Enroll:
- Attend an introductory tenant organizing meeting on the second Thursday of every month at 6:00 pm by telephone or Zoom. You can call into the meeting by dialing 646-558-8656 (there is no need to pre-register if you want to join by phone). To join using Zoom, please click here to complete a very brief pre-registration form so we can send you the log in information.
- You can attend as a representative of an existing tenant association, as an individual tenant, or as a group of tenants interested in forming a tenant association.
Contact:
- To access this information by phone, please call our intake hotline at 929-415-8745. After choosing your language, dial 1 for housing.