Who we are / Quienes somos

The End Apartment Warehousing Coalition has just joined forces with the Stand for Tenant Safety! 

So our organization is now even bigger than the End Apartment Warehousing Coalition, which included:

• Communities Resist
• Cooper Square committee
• United Neighbors Organization
• Goddard Riverside Law Project
• Homeless Can't Stay Home
• Housing Conservation Coordinators/ West Side Neighborhood Alliance
• Los Sures
• Los Sures LUCHA!
• Park West Village Tenants' Association 
  
• St. Nick's Alliance
• Stellar Tenants for Affordable Housing
• TakeRoot Justice
• Tenants Taking Control
• The People's Firehouse, Inc.
• Woodside on the Move 
  

with the support of 

• Ascendant Housing
• Citizen Action NY
• GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side)
• Met Council on Housing
• Neighbors Together
• Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association
  

 We want the owners of affordable apartments in New York State and elsewhere to rent them out - and not just warehouse them.

• Keeping those apartments empty often endangers tenants still living in adjoining apartments - by letting the vacant apartments become dumps and fire hazards.
• And keeping those apartments empty means that the 90,000 or so homeless people in New York State (the bulk of whom are in New York City as we are), have even fewer places to live.

So we support City and State bills that would change this situation.  We're urging a City bill that would keep tenants safe in buildings where many apartments are warehoused - by requiring the registration of apartments warehoused for prolonged periods of time, and inspections of those apartments to ensure they are code compliant and not fire traps or harboring vermin, etc.  We support Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal's bill, A. 5988, to end warehousing and other legislators' bills to regulate "first" rents for "Frankensteined" apartments - those created by re-shaping formerly rent stabilized units with additions from other apartments or public spaces.

If you agree with these goals, join us as a member organization or a support group, and participate in our meetings every two weeks.  

Contact Lina Reniques, lrenique@lossures.org for more information.