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We've Assisted 11,000+ Families

We have increased the number of tenants we've been able to help yearly.
Reaching 1,500+ community members in only the first half of 2021.
Demographics Assisted
Latinx
Black
White
51.8%
31.8%
12.7%
Other
4.5%
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Families Serviced

$4.2M
Recovered in Rent Refunds for Families
rent-Stabilized units (15 buildings) repaired in partnership with NYC Housing Preservation & Development Code Enforcement Programs: Proactive Preservation Initiative and Alternative Enforcement Programs.
1,532
apartments are preserved through repairs and upgrades.
12,649
1,918
1,918
families received rent reductions due to conditions in their apartments and public areas.

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Preserving Affordable Housing

Program Changes
We succeeded in helping implement program changes to 157 City-owned properties. Family members living in Tenant Interim Lease (TIL) buildings now have the right to succession which was not granted since the programs inception.
Tenant Organizing
We organized over 80 tenant associations including 6,448 apartments. 16 buildings were enrolled in HPD’s proactive preservation program and 5 buildings were enrolled in HPD’s alternative enforcement program.


COVID-19 Relief Project
P.A.’L.A.N.T.E. has worked tirelessly to provide our community with the proper resources to combat COVID-19. We are proud to say that we’ve distributed countless masks, face shields, hand sanitizer, and culturally competent fresh groceries to families in need.
100,000+
masks and hand sanitizers distributed to 1,053 families
164
of our seniors received COVID19 vaccines
1,140
families affected by food insecurity received fresh groceries
155
air conditioners distributed to families

Legal Assistance

336
One-on-one legal sessions/legal clinics (1,101 families)
$3M
81
legal workshops
(1,173 families)
in rent refunds to tenants through court settlements

Success Stories
For more than six years, Ramon Hernandez had no idea his frigid, rat-plagued, crumbling apartment would turn out to be a gold mine. More

They were left out in the cold when a raging blaze destroyed their Hamilton Heights apartment — but friends and co-workers opened the door to a new home. Roommates Richard Peralta, 19, and Nelson Claure, 48, only had the shirts on their backs when a Nov. 17 fire tore through their W. 144th St. building. More

CANARSIE, Brooklyn — Canarsie mom Michaela Bell says she worries for the safety of her two toddlers.
She waited seven months in a city shelter to be transferred to an apartment on L Avenue she feels us unsafe for her kids. “It’s like an obstacle course of problems. There are no window guards,” said Bell. More

Families successfully returned to their rent-stabilized apartments paying the same amount of rent after vicious electrical fires forced the 49 families to become homeless. More
