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  The Environmental and Housing Justice Project builds a strong membership base of environmental and tenant activists, develops grassroots leadership and organizes for safe, affordable housing and a healthy urban environment for low-income communities of color. The Project organizes community residents to demand action from landlords, city agencies and local politicians on housing and environmental health issues.
Recent Accomplishments
» The Project's grassroots and coalition organizing work led to major reforms in how the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Department of Health respond to the dangers of childhood lead poisoning. Literally tens of millions of new dollars are being spent to increase accountability for negligent slumlords, and to promote environmental health education for low-income New Yorkers. We have been in contact with grassroots organizations from around the country who are interested in replicating our organizing campaign to bring about similar policy reform to protect low-income children of color in their areas.
» After winning this major victory in the battle against preventable lead poisoning, Make the Road by Walking implemented a research and organizing project that targets Bushwick's childhood asthma epidemic. We began working with hundreds of community members, the New York City Department of Health and local hospitals to promote improved awareness, understanding and treatment of asthma among underserved area children. » The Project also initiated a campaign to challenge negligent landlords who violate the housing code and endanger low-income tenants. Our members worked to draft local legislation to crack down on slumlords, the Healthy Homes Act, and we are leading a coalition effort to ensure prompt repair of immediately hazardous housing code violations.
Key Partners
New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)NYC AIDS Housing Network Housing Here and Now Coalition The Association for Neighbrhood and Housing Development (ANHD) Mothers on the Move Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) Tenants and Neighbors Bushwick Housing Independence Project (BHIP) For more information, contact: organizing@maketheroad.org
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» Bushwick lags far behind the rest of Brooklyn and most of New York City when it comes to the well-being of its children. In Bushwick, there are 1,521 children per park acre, more that three times the Brooklyn average of 412 children per park acre. Our ongoing development of Children's Grove Park (owned by Make the Road and located next to our office) fills a critical need for open space in the community.