Do you live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and the surrounding areas of Ft. Greene and Clinton Hills?
Are you scared your landlord will raise your rent?
Or that you’ll be displaced?
Are you facing foreclosure?
WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
Join us for a forum on the issue of gentrification.*
Share ideas and learn about resources that can help save
affordable housing in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Hear about the Before It's Gone // Take It Back campaign, a Brooklyn-wide neighborhood and web-based ...
Do you live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and the surrounding areas of Ft. Greene and Clinton Hills?
Are you scared your landlord will raise your rent?
Or that you’ll be displaced?
Are you facing foreclosure?
WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
Join us for a forum on the issue of gentrification.*
Share ideas and learn about resources that can help save
affordable housing in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Hear about the Before It's Gone // Take It Back campaign, a Brooklyn-wide neighborhood and web-based response to the crisis of gentrification of Brooklyn, NY. Our main goal using grassroots organizing is to build and launch an anti-gentrification website hub, that will serve as a documentary archive as well as provide vital legal, housing and community organizing resources to help Brooklyn residents stay in their homes.
Sunday February 22nd 2015
JACK
505 Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238
3:00 – 5:00 PM
*We define ‘gentrification’ as the deliberate pricing out of low-to-middle income residents from neighborhoods by corporations, real estate developers, and landlords in favor of renting, selling, and catering to people with higher and/or more flexible incomes. At the same time, we know from first-hand experience that the same unscrupulous property owners who use tactics to force long-time older tenants of color out of their rent-stabilized apartments will turn around and illegally overcharge incoming younger white tenants for the same apartment. For this very reason, we believe that all of us- long-time and new residents, communities of color and white communities, low-income and middle-class people - have a stake in the urgent struggle to save affordable housing in Brooklyn.
Some people talk about gentrification in Brooklyn like it's a closed subject – as if there's nothing we can do. We believe there is still hope to save affordable housing and stop displacement.
To learn more about the project please see our talking points : http://equalityforflatbush.tumblr.com/post/97925096677/talking-points-about-before-its-gone-take-it-back
BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK is a Brooklyn-wide project of Equality for Flatbush : E4F a new people of color-led grassroots organization which does anti-police repression, affordable housing and anti-gentrification organizing in the Flatbush and East Flatbush communities of Brooklyn, NY.