@neweconomyproject.bsky.social
📢NEW: Major @nydailynews.com op-ed backs COPA—and the fight for an affordable NYC.
The piece from Fifth Avenue Committee's Michelle de la Uz lays out why the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act is essential to keeping New Yorkers in their homes.
PASS COPA NOW!
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/09/n...
The piece from Fifth Avenue Committee's Michelle de la Uz lays out why the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act is essential to keeping New Yorkers in their homes.
PASS COPA NOW!
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/09/n...
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📢NEW: Major @nydailynews.com op-ed backs COPA—and the fight for an affordable NYC.
The piece from Fifth Avenue Committee's Michelle de la Uz lays out why the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act is essential to keeping New Yorkers in their homes.
PASS COPA NOW!
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/09/n...
The piece from Fifth Avenue Committee's Michelle de la Uz lays out why the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act is essential to keeping New Yorkers in their homes.
PASS COPA NOW!
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/09/n...
“We are tired of seeing predatory speculators swoop into the Lower East Side and displace tenants. Pass COPA now!” —Illapa of Cooper Square Committee
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“We are tired of seeing predatory speculators swoop into the Lower East Side and displace tenants. Pass COPA now!” —Illapa of Cooper Square Committee
Call for COPA! New Yorkers want real affordable housing, and COPA can deliver by giving CLTs and other nonprofits the first chance to buy buildings when landlords sell. bit.ly/CALL4COPA
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Call for COPA! New Yorkers want real affordable housing, and COPA can deliver by giving CLTs and other nonprofits the first chance to buy buildings when landlords sell. bit.ly/CALL4COPA
We’re excited to share that our Executive Director, Deyanira Del Rio, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s Transition Committee on Economic Development & Workforce Development!
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We’re excited to share that our Executive Director, Deyanira Del Rio, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s Transition Committee on Economic Development & Workforce Development!
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act has:
1. A veto proof majority in City Council
2. Support from 200 community and
youth groups, community land trusts, and mission driven developers
3. Mayor-elect Mamdani’s endorsement
No time to lose! @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social pass #COPA!
1. A veto proof majority in City Council
2. Support from 200 community and
youth groups, community land trusts, and mission driven developers
3. Mayor-elect Mamdani’s endorsement
No time to lose! @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social pass #COPA!
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act has:
1. A veto proof majority in City Council
2. Support from 200 community and
youth groups, community land trusts, and mission driven developers
3. Mayor-elect Mamdani’s endorsement
No time to lose! @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social pass #COPA!
1. A veto proof majority in City Council
2. Support from 200 community and
youth groups, community land trusts, and mission driven developers
3. Mayor-elect Mamdani’s endorsement
No time to lose! @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social pass #COPA!
Today we went “trick or treating” with @nyccli.bsky.social at @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social’s office — with candy and 1,000+ postcards from New Yorkers to make sure she knows it’s CRUNCH time for COPA!
We’re calling on Speaker Adams to bring COPA to a vote!
We’re calling on Speaker Adams to bring COPA to a vote!
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Today we went “trick or treating” with @nyccli.bsky.social at @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social’s office — with candy and 1,000+ postcards from New Yorkers to make sure she knows it’s CRUNCH time for COPA!
We’re calling on Speaker Adams to bring COPA to a vote!
We’re calling on Speaker Adams to bring COPA to a vote!
We’re thrilled to see growing momentum for passage of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act! Check out this op-ed from Councilmembers Brooks-Powers, Riley & Williams; it quotes our research into the impact #COPA could have in their Bronx & Queens districts.
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We’re thrilled to see growing momentum for passage of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act! Check out this op-ed from Councilmembers Brooks-Powers, Riley & Williams; it quotes our research into the impact #COPA could have in their Bronx & Queens districts.
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
Organizers’ dream setting: The Watershed Center. With coalition partners from across New York, we’re charting next steps to fight financial exploitation and build the solidarity economy.
September 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Organizers’ dream setting: The Watershed Center. With coalition partners from across New York, we’re charting next steps to fight financial exploitation and build the solidarity economy.
🏦 Now imagine a bank—owned by the people—that funds this movement. That’s the vision of @publicbanknyc.bsky.social
Let’s move billions in public dollars off Wall Street & reinvest in cooperative, neighborhood-led development through community credit unions & other mission-driven lenders.
Let’s move billions in public dollars off Wall Street & reinvest in cooperative, neighborhood-led development through community credit unions & other mission-driven lenders.
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🏦 Now imagine a bank—owned by the people—that funds this movement. That’s the vision of @publicbanknyc.bsky.social
Let’s move billions in public dollars off Wall Street & reinvest in cooperative, neighborhood-led development through community credit unions & other mission-driven lenders.
Let’s move billions in public dollars off Wall Street & reinvest in cooperative, neighborhood-led development through community credit unions & other mission-driven lenders.
🏘️CLTs take land and housing off the speculative market and into permanently affordable, community control.
Through deep organizing, NYC’s CLT movement has grown from 2 to 20+ in just a decade.
Imagine what they could do with real support from City Hall.
nyccli.org
Through deep organizing, NYC’s CLT movement has grown from 2 to 20+ in just a decade.
Imagine what they could do with real support from City Hall.
nyccli.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🏘️CLTs take land and housing off the speculative market and into permanently affordable, community control.
Through deep organizing, NYC’s CLT movement has grown from 2 to 20+ in just a decade.
Imagine what they could do with real support from City Hall.
nyccli.org
Through deep organizing, NYC’s CLT movement has grown from 2 to 20+ in just a decade.
Imagine what they could do with real support from City Hall.
nyccli.org
NEW: In passing the FAIR Business Practices Act, the Legislature expanded the Attorney General’s powers—but stripped out the core provisions that would have empowered everyday New Yorkers to directly challenge corporate abuse.
Our full statement: neweconomynyc.org/resource/sta...
Our full statement: neweconomynyc.org/resource/sta...
June 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
NEW: In passing the FAIR Business Practices Act, the Legislature expanded the Attorney General’s powers—but stripped out the core provisions that would have empowered everyday New Yorkers to directly challenge corporate abuse.
Our full statement: neweconomynyc.org/resource/sta...
Our full statement: neweconomynyc.org/resource/sta...
BREAKING: The @newyorkstateag.bsky.social filed major lawsuits against Big Tech lenders that exploit working New Yorkers & communities of color
We joined 30 labor unions, community and legal groups & community credit unions in a statement supporting the action:
www.neweconomynyc.org/2025/04/stat...
We joined 30 labor unions, community and legal groups & community credit unions in a statement supporting the action:
www.neweconomynyc.org/2025/04/stat...
April 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
BREAKING: The @newyorkstateag.bsky.social filed major lawsuits against Big Tech lenders that exploit working New Yorkers & communities of color
We joined 30 labor unions, community and legal groups & community credit unions in a statement supporting the action:
www.neweconomynyc.org/2025/04/stat...
We joined 30 labor unions, community and legal groups & community credit unions in a statement supporting the action:
www.neweconomynyc.org/2025/04/stat...
Shout out to the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union and Bronx Financial Access Coalition for bringing a new community development credit union to the Bronx.
This is how we build economic power & fight systemic wealth extraction from communities of color—with community-controlled finance!
This is how we build economic power & fight systemic wealth extraction from communities of color—with community-controlled finance!
April 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Shout out to the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union and Bronx Financial Access Coalition for bringing a new community development credit union to the Bronx.
This is how we build economic power & fight systemic wealth extraction from communities of color—with community-controlled finance!
This is how we build economic power & fight systemic wealth extraction from communities of color—with community-controlled finance!
📣Calling all NYers who believe housing is a human right!
The Community Land Act would give CLTs & other nonprofits tools to develop and preserve permanently-affordable housing, community and commercial spaces, and other critical needs. #CLTsForNYC #PassTheCLA
Join us on 4/10:
The Community Land Act would give CLTs & other nonprofits tools to develop and preserve permanently-affordable housing, community and commercial spaces, and other critical needs. #CLTsForNYC #PassTheCLA
Join us on 4/10:
March 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📣Calling all NYers who believe housing is a human right!
The Community Land Act would give CLTs & other nonprofits tools to develop and preserve permanently-affordable housing, community and commercial spaces, and other critical needs. #CLTsForNYC #PassTheCLA
Join us on 4/10:
The Community Land Act would give CLTs & other nonprofits tools to develop and preserve permanently-affordable housing, community and commercial spaces, and other critical needs. #CLTsForNYC #PassTheCLA
Join us on 4/10:
Great turnout for our End Loan Sharking Act (ELSA) legislative briefing!
Learn more about this urgently needed bill, sponsored by
@samrabrouk.bsky.social and @stevenraga.bsky.social
at equityagendany.org/wp-content/u...
Learn more about this urgently needed bill, sponsored by
@samrabrouk.bsky.social and @stevenraga.bsky.social
at equityagendany.org/wp-content/u...
March 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Great turnout for our End Loan Sharking Act (ELSA) legislative briefing!
Learn more about this urgently needed bill, sponsored by
@samrabrouk.bsky.social and @stevenraga.bsky.social
at equityagendany.org/wp-content/u...
Learn more about this urgently needed bill, sponsored by
@samrabrouk.bsky.social and @stevenraga.bsky.social
at equityagendany.org/wp-content/u...
We & our partners in @nyccli.bsky.social @tenantbloc.bsky.social packed the NY Capitol! We need $250M/year to support tenant acquisitions through the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act.
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social, @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social act now to curb speculation!
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social, @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social act now to curb speculation!
March 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We & our partners in @nyccli.bsky.social @tenantbloc.bsky.social packed the NY Capitol! We need $250M/year to support tenant acquisitions through the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act.
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social, @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social act now to curb speculation!
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social, @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social act now to curb speculation!
TOPA 🤝 Public Banking
A powerful combination for justice!
Making striking new tee shirts with our amazing coalition partners!
A powerful combination for justice!
Making striking new tee shirts with our amazing coalition partners!
March 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
TOPA 🤝 Public Banking
A powerful combination for justice!
Making striking new tee shirts with our amazing coalition partners!
A powerful combination for justice!
Making striking new tee shirts with our amazing coalition partners!
Big Tech’s latest profit scheme? Draining your paycheck.
Payday loan apps with triple-digit interest rates—far beyond New York’s usury cap—are preying on workers through their phones.
Next week, we’re briefing lawmakers and urging Albany to pass the End Loan Sharking Act.
Payday loan apps with triple-digit interest rates—far beyond New York’s usury cap—are preying on workers through their phones.
Next week, we’re briefing lawmakers and urging Albany to pass the End Loan Sharking Act.
March 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Big Tech’s latest profit scheme? Draining your paycheck.
Payday loan apps with triple-digit interest rates—far beyond New York’s usury cap—are preying on workers through their phones.
Next week, we’re briefing lawmakers and urging Albany to pass the End Loan Sharking Act.
Payday loan apps with triple-digit interest rates—far beyond New York’s usury cap—are preying on workers through their phones.
Next week, we’re briefing lawmakers and urging Albany to pass the End Loan Sharking Act.
#PublicBanking is about financial justice, housing justice, climate justice and investment in historically redlined communities.
It’s time for NYS leadership - @govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social -
to pass #NYPublicBankingAct and #BankofRochester!
It’s time for NYS leadership - @govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social -
to pass #NYPublicBankingAct and #BankofRochester!
March 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#PublicBanking is about financial justice, housing justice, climate justice and investment in historically redlined communities.
It’s time for NYS leadership - @govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social -
to pass #NYPublicBankingAct and #BankofRochester!
It’s time for NYS leadership - @govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social -
to pass #NYPublicBankingAct and #BankofRochester!
"In the context of federal threats, New York must take bold action not only to stop financial exploitation, but to advance systemic solutions like public banking that address root causes of banking inequality."
- our Andy Morrison, testifying before the Senate Committee on Banks
- our Andy Morrison, testifying before the Senate Committee on Banks
March 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"In the context of federal threats, New York must take bold action not only to stop financial exploitation, but to advance systemic solutions like public banking that address root causes of banking inequality."
- our Andy Morrison, testifying before the Senate Committee on Banks
- our Andy Morrison, testifying before the Senate Committee on Banks
Tenants & our state elected champions stood together today in the capitol to demand the passage of #TOPA & $250M in this year’s state budget! @govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social, pass #TOPA to ensure our homes stay affordable and community-controlled!!
February 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Tenants & our state elected champions stood together today in the capitol to demand the passage of #TOPA & $250M in this year’s state budget! @govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social, pass #TOPA to ensure our homes stay affordable and community-controlled!!
"This map shows affirmative, community-driven solutions that groups around the city are putting forward to address the deepening affordability crisis." - our Deyanira Del Rio
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
February 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"This map shows affirmative, community-driven solutions that groups around the city are putting forward to address the deepening affordability crisis." - our Deyanira Del Rio
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
A few highlights from our article, "What does finance for the people look like?" Check out the full piece in @npquarterly! https://buff.ly/4jaOdvF
January 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A few highlights from our article, "What does finance for the people look like?" Check out the full piece in @npquarterly! https://buff.ly/4jaOdvF