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Sustaining a Successful People's Campaign to Reform and Entrenched Public Housing Bureaucracy
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New Jersey Together made progress on education, housing, and criminal justice reform in 2025. See our Progress Report: tinyurl.com/NJT2025

Help keep it up in 2026 (new recurring donations are matched!):
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January 1, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Thanks to all who helped Manhattan Together make progress on mental health care in 2025, safety, and fixing NYCHA. Our organizing has helped 10000s of families get real repairs:

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January 1, 2026 at 4:25 AM
In 2025, MT helped 1000s of NYCHA families get repairs and built a citywide agenda on mental health, affordable housing and public safety w/ @metro-iaf.bsky.social NY. See more: tinyurl.com/MT2025Progress

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SUPPORT MANHATTAN TOGETHER IN 2026
We work with the people who want to transform the world
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January 1, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Manhattan Together leader @ravmoss.bsky.social on the work @metro-iaf.bsky.social is doing in NYC to ensure the Jewish community, and all New Yorkers, can be safe.

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The Blogs: Light in the Darkness
From the blog of Joel Mosbacher at The Times of Israel
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December 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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An investigation by THE CITY has found more than 14,200 housing code violations in RAD developments since January 2021.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/10/n...
Private Management Promised to Fix Public Housing, Yet Hundreds of Violations Linger
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December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Great piece by @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social on how NYCHA is failing in its oversight of RAD/PACT, featuring @metro-iaf.bsky.social tenant leaders on what needs to happen to fix it.
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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NYC Mayoral Candidates Pledge Accountability and Results to Metro IAF NY
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December 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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All Five Leading NYC Mayoral Candidates Commit to Work with Metro IAF
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August 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Tenants Take the Lead: A Mayoral Forum on Housing Justice - The New York Community Trust
Organized by Metro IAF, a Trust grantee, in partnership with Manhattan Together, South Bronx Churches, Queens Power, and East Brooklyn Congregations, the event featured Democratic mayoral candidates A...
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August 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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NYC mayor’s race: Five Democrats offer big promises on homelessness and housing at interborough forum | amNewYork
Five Democrats pitched their ideas to help the homeless, build affordable housing and improve the New York City Housing Authority.
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June 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Board Sides with New York Avenue Tenants Amid Harassment Allegations
The Jersey City Rent Leveling Board on Thursday denied a controversial hardship application filed by the owners of a New York Avenue apartment building which, if granted, would have allowed them to…
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May 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Celebrating a Housing Victory in Jersey City: Breaking Ground on Bayfront
JCT/NJT Leader Uche Akpa at the Bayfront groundbreakingMay 14th, 2025 marked a major milestone in the fight for housing justice in Jersey City. Together, we celebrated the beginning of a long-awaited ...
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May 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Essex Together/NJT leaders Support the "Yes in God's Back Yard" Campaign for More Affordable Housing
On Monday May 5th, 20 leaders from Essex Together/NJ Together congregations and allies attended the Montclair Planning Board to support the "Yes In God's Back Yard" (YIGBY) plan. Leaders representing ...
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May 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance
Neither Klein and Thompson nor many of their critics on the left offer a robust strategy for actually building affordable homes. Here’s one that has been proven to work.
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May 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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NJ Gubernatorial Candidates Commit to Work with New Jersey Together
April 27, 2025 - Nearly 200 leaders from New Jersey Together (NJT) gathered to call on the gubernatorial candidates to commit to their agenda on affordable housing and criminal justice reform. NJT is ...
www.njtogether.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Democratic candidates for NJ governor discuss issues of housing and justice reform
Three Democratic candidates for governor met Sunday in Montclair to talk issues on affordable and group housing, along with parole violations reform.
www.northjersey.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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See the panel of three NJ gubernatorial primary candidates in Montclair
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka met in Montclair on Sunday to talk policy perspectives on issues.
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May 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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April 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Jersey City BOE, JC Together, & MUA celebrate lead-free water at the public schools -
The Jersey City BOE, Jersey City Together, and the MUA celebrated the completion of replacing all the lead pipes at the public schools.
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April 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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It took six years at a cost estimated at more than $17 million but water at all Jersey City public schools is now declared to be lead-free and safe to drink for the district’s 27,500 students.
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Safe at Last: Lead-Free Water on Tap at all Jersey City Schools
Water at all Jersey City public schools is now declared to be lead-free and safe to drink for the district’s 27,500 students.
jcitytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
www.nj.com/mosaic/2025/...
​​Let’s make housing production a reality in N.J.
There must be a bipartisan commitment to fixing New Jersey's housing crisis.
www.nj.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
State wants to fast-track redeveloping Baltimore’s vacants
$50 million will start hitting the streets July 1, Maryland’s housing secretary said.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Organizing to meet the new challenges of Trump
I had lunch recently with a good friend and colleague, going back more than four decades. And he and another former colleague had wondered what those of us who have spent our lives as organizers, w…
www.nydailynews.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Please visit njtogether.org/donate today.

With more support, NJT can continue 2024 progress on truly affordable housing, criminal justice, education, and clean energy, outlined at tinyurl.com/NJT2024Report, in 2025.

New recurring donations will be matched by our parent network, metro-iaf.org.
December 31, 2024 at 5:25 PM