➡️Join us to demand the RGB Roll Back The Rent ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾

Date🗓️: Apr 30th
Time⏰: 5:30pm
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When tenants have counsel, they win their cases most of the time. Without it, they overwhelmingly lose. Without #RTC , 1000s of tenants each year are displaced when they could've stayed in their homes. Governor Kathy Hochul NYS Senate Democrats NY Assembly Majority we need a RIGHT to Counsel THIS YEAR!

Our communities need long-term solutions that will keep us safe and securely housed! To prevent displacement and homelessness, Governor Kathy Hochul must pass #StatewideRTC (S2721) THIS YEAR, and fund its implementation with $260 million in the budget. #HochulsCourtsMustChange

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A “Sell-out” is how our community partners, who aid immigrants & asylum seekers, described the deal the City & Legal Aid Society/Coalition for theHomeless reached after months of secret negotiations that didnt involve directly impacted people. Read our thread to see our concerns:

“Every single one of you being here matters!”—Amanda Septimo talking about the PEOPLE power that won #RTC in NYC, that launched a national movement, and that got #StatewideRTC in the NYS one house budgets this year. ✊✊

$260 million for Right to Counsel is going to ensure free legal representation for tens of thousands more NYers facing eviction across NYS. We need to pass a Statewide #RTC for ALL this year to right the imbalance of power in our court system! Right to Counsel NYC Coalition #EvictionFreeNY #EvictionFreeNY

Right to Counsel makes it harder for landlords to use evictions as a tactic to harass and displace tenants. Passing of #StatewideRTC and funding for it in this year’s budget would decrease eviction filings by an estimated 19% outside NYC! Right to Counsel NYC Coalition #EvictionFreeNY #EvictionFreeNY

#StatewideRTC will save our state & local governments millions of public dollars that would otherwise be spent on shelter, homelessness services, & more. Like most cities and states with RTC, NYS could save 3 to 6 dollars for every dollar invested in RTC! Right to Counsel NYC Coalition #EvictionFreeNY

Our communities need long-term solutions that will keep us safe and securely housed! To prevent displacement and homelessness, we must pass #StatewideRTC (S2721) THIS YEAR, and fund its implementation with $260 million in the budget. Right to Counsel NYC Coalition #EvictionFreeNY #EvictionFreeNY #NewYorkCity

“we’re displacing our children! we shouldn’t have to live paycheck to paycheck!”

Our fierce TJ Shivers encouraging fellow tenants to keep on fighting for our rights.

“The experts are in this room!…I want everybody to go home and talk to your neighbors”

#StatewideRTC

Syracuse Tenants Union TJ Shivers with Flatbush Tenant Coalition #EvictionFreeNY speaking on Court Watch and Tenant Organizing on Long Island

“When we get complacent anything can happen to us. I love telling tenants about Right to Counsel… We need to hold the courts accountable.”
#StatewideRTC

Co-Lead Organizer, Sabrina Simon, and Outreach and Education Specialist, TJ Shivers are repping FTC on the second panel for today: Tenant Organizing in the Court & Beyond.

#StatewideRTC #2024StateOfEvictionsForum #RTC #RightToCounsel

“The Right to Counsel: it’s not just about evictions, it’s about getting repairs and a better quality of life”

This is the year [to win statewide RTC], and it’s got to get done!

- Catholic Migration Tenant Leader Wanda Martinez

“Our first line of defense is a militant tenant movement!”

- Dio Kaufman, Tenant Leader and organizer with Saratoga Lakeview Mobile Home Park

We’re in Albany with numerous tenant organizing groups in New York State fighting together to pass #StatewideRTC !

#EvictionFreeBX CASA-New Settlement member Valentin: “there are people in courts suffering in housing courts every day from harassment from their landlords and lawyers”

“Resolution 499 fulfills the promise of #RighttoCounsel and sends a message to Albany that we have to #DefendRTC and the solutions are simple. No case should move forward without #RTC !” -⁦⁦Council Member Shaun Abreu⁩ ⁦#EvictionFreeBX CASA-New Settlement⁩ ⁦Goddard Riverside #JustPay⁩ ⁦Catholic Migration Services⁩ ⁦⁦

“Estoy demandando que paran a todos los desalojos. No queremos mas desalojos!” -Valentín con ⁦#EvictionFreeBX CASA-New Settlement⁩ ⁦Goddard Riverside #JustPay⁩ ⁦northwestbronx⁩ ⁦Catholic Migration Services⁩ #DefenderRTC