Community-based organization only serving specific areas
Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE)
(Separate Website)
AAFE's programs and services include housing development, homeownership, comprehensive social services, civil rights, economic development and technical assistance. AAFE operates out of four locations in the Chinatown/Lower East Side areas of Manhattan and Flushing, Queens. All services are provided in English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Hindi, and Urdu.
Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center Inc.
(Separate Website)
The Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center, Inc. is a non profit organization committed to empower the community by promoting collective action to demanding social justice and better opportunities for immigrants, low income residents and people of color in West Harlem, a community of traditionally neglected minority population. The center works in the areas of family and domestic violence, housing and environmental justice, education, art, youth issues, and other activities that provide opportunities for community leadership.
By: Lawhelp NY
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Spanish / Español
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp.
(Separate Website)
The Community Organizing Department of Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp. works with residents of Washington Heights and Inwood. They work with tenant associations to improve building conditions and with tenant-controlled buildings to preserve low-income housing over the long term.
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Social service organizations serving different neighborhoods
Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD) Member Organizations
(Separate Website)
This is a list of neighborhod-based organizations that provide assistance to tenants and build low-income houisng.
Chhaya Community Development Corporation
(Separate Website)
Chhaya's mission is to address and advocate for the housing and community development needs of South Asian American communities in New York City regardless of class, caste, country of origin, or religious affiliation.
By: LawHelp NY
Coalition for the Homeless
(Separate Website)
Coalition for the Homeless provides advocacy, youth services, housing, mobile soup kitchen, crisis intervention, voice mail and job training in New York.
Housing Conservation Coordinators
(Separate Website)
HCC has provided tenant organizing services since 1972 by: helping tenants form tenant associations, get repairs, upgrade building services, stop landlord harassment, begin rent strikes and bring tenant actions in Housing Court. HCC also helps tenants purchase their building as limited-equity cooperatives, and assists tenant groups fight against owners opting out of subsidized programs, such as Project-Based Section 8 and Mitchell Lama buildings.
Metropolitan Council on Housing
(Separate Website)
Met Council is a city-wide membership tenant organization. It publishes a monthly newsletter for tenants in English and Spanish and provides alerts and other informations for tenants in New York City.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
(Separate Website)
Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Inc. is a community-based financial counseling and economic assistance organization serving homeowners, homebuyers, tenants, landlords and merchants.
**Please Note that the tenant program covers the following zip codes: 11232, 11220; and the homeownership program focuses on 11220, 11232 but is open to all of NYC.
Tenants and Neighbors
(Separate Website)
'Our mission is to build a unified and powerful statewide organization that empowers and educates tenants; preserves affordable housing, livable neighborhoods, and diverse communities; and strengthens tenant protections. '
Human Services Directory for Asian Americans
(Separate Website)
Human Services for Asian Americans is a directory of organizations that provide health and human services to the Asian American community in the New York metropolitan area.
211-Free Access To Health and Human Services Information and Referrals Updated22
(Separate Website)
2-1-1 is the abbreviated dialing code for free access to health and human services information and referral (I &R).
By: United Way
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR)
(Separate Website)
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) consists of all the State's major housing and community renewal agencies.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
(Separate Website)
HUD's webpage
By: U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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