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Brad Lander is a member of the New York City Council, and the board chair of Local Progress, a national network of progressive local elected officials.

Rent stabilization measures could go a long way to alleviate the country’s affordable housing crisis, according to the “Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities” report out last month by PolicyLink, the Center for Popular Democracy, and the Right To The City A

In 2017, after release of the ITPI report, the national progressive advocacy group Center for Popular Democracy launched the “Corporate Backers of Hate” campaign to target “some of the companies which most egregiously prioritize profits over people,” including JPMorgan and Wells Fargo.

On March 5, JPMorgan Chase made headlines by announcing that the bank would no longer finance private-prison and immigrant-detention companies. This is the first major bank to make such an announcement, marking a potential sea change in the fight against private prisons.

Local renter protections passed by Ithaca City Council: (Seph Murtaugh, Duc Nguyen, George McGonigle, Laura Lewis, and Cynthia Brock) “The new tenant’s rights resolutions establish that the landlord is now responsible for any and all coding faults with buildings and rental units instead of the te

Local renter protections passed by Ithaca City Council: (Seph Murtaugh, Duc Nguyen, George McGonigle, Laura Lewis, and Cynthia Brock) “The new tenant’s rights resolutions establish that the landlord is now responsible for any and all coding faults with buildings and rental units instead of the te

Local renter protections passed by Ithaca City Council: (Seph Murtaugh, Duc Nguyen, George McGonigle, Laura Lewis, and Cynthia Brock) “The new tenant’s rights resolutions establish that the landlord is now responsible for any and all coding faults with buildings and rental units instead of the te

Common Dreams reported that civil rights groups, like Make the Road NY, the Center for Popular Democracy and New York Communities for Change, were among the organizations credited with pressuring JP Morgan Chase and Co to stop bankrolling CoreCivic and GEO Group, the country’s largest private pri

With a resolution passed Tuesday, Tompkins County legislators are urging Gov.