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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

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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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SUPPORT MANHATTAN TOGETHER IN 2026 We work with the people who want to transform the world

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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The Blogs: Light in the Darkness From the blog of Joel Mosbacher at The Times of Israel

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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Private Management Promised to Fix Public Housing, Yet Hundreds of Violations Linger Get THE CITY SCOOP, our free morning newsletter.

An investigation by THE CITY has found more than 14,200 housing code violations in RAD developments since January 2021.

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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.

NYC Mayoral Candidates Pledge Accountability and Results to Metro IAF NY

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All Five Leading NYC Mayoral Candidates Commit to Work with Metro IAF

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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​​Let’s make housing production a reality in N.J. There must be a bipartisan commitment to fixing New Jersey's housing crisis.

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State wants to fast-track redeveloping Baltimore’s vacants $50 million will start hitting the streets July 1, Maryland’s housing secretary said.

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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…

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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.

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With billions of dollars coming, Baltimore and Maryland leaders prepare to ramp up acquisition of vacant houses The first steps of a new $3 billion effort to acquire and repurpose thousands of vacant homes across Baltimore are taking off with a state pledge and a package of bonds being considered by city law…

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Tenants Fight New York Avenue Landlord Over Rent Increases, Other Claims Outstanding issues and concerns involving one rent-controlled building are delaying a decision on the landlord’s proposed rent increases.

Outstanding issues and concerns involving one rent-controlled building are delaying a decision on the landlord’s proposed rent increases.
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'Shame on You': Rally Decries 'Unethical' 95/5 Deed Restriction Some 50 people, comprised of property owners, their supporters and members of Jersey City Together, are fed up and took their complaints to City Hall on Thursday.

Some 50 people, comprised of property owners, their supporters and members of Jersey City Together, are fed up and took their complaints to City Hall on Thursday.
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Jersey City Schools Nearing Completion of Lead-Free Water Fountain Project As promised, the Jersey City Board of Education is now in the final stages of getting the lead out of the drinking water at its schools.

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