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Right to the City-NYC is the local chapter of the national Right to the City alliance. This workshop will explore the Alliance’s Condo Conversion Campaign, which is aiming to convert vacant luxury condominiums in NYC into low-income housing. This workshop will also explore the participatory action research the Alliance has engaged in to support our campaign work. In August, 2009, RTTC-NYC released the Right to the City-NYC Policy Platform, which includes 33 policy demands most important to our low-income membership and serves as the guiding document for the work of the Alliance. From the policy demands listed in our platform, RTTC-NYC’s membership prioritized campaign work on the Condo Conversion Campaign. To inform the Alliance’s Condo Conversion Campaign, RTTC-NYC engaged in a participatory action research project in which over 150 members of the Alliance canvassed their neighborhoods to locate and document information about vacant condominiums. In May, 2010, this information was compiled and released in the report, Homes without People, People without Homes. The report will share lessons learned and strategies used in the work of RTTC-NYC.
