Communities Resist

Communities Resist is a community-based legal services and advocacy organization established and led by people of color to empower, educate and represent low-income communities and community coalitions preventing gentrification and displacement. Understanding that housing is a human right, the fight for tenants’ rights and housing justice must advance racial, gender, and economic justice.

Our work is deeply rooted in some of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens. Communities Resist was born out of a community desire to expand our unique model of anti-displacement legal services, leading the founders to launch a new organization to best represent the changing needs of our neighborhoods.