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Harlem Tenants Council (HTC) was founded in 1994, a tenant led grassroots organization based on the self-determination tradition of progressive activism for people of color. Its mission is to provide eviction intervention services for poor & working class families in Central Harlem to achieve concrete short & long term improvements in housing quality of life; to engage tenants in campaigns that will empower them to resolve problems based on their own interest and agenda; and to work with tenant leadership on direct actions for social change to alters power relations that allows tenants to become key players in decisions that affect their community. Harlem Tenants Council Mission Statement: created to "provide relief for the poor and to combat community deterioration as a result of the accelerated pace of gentrification in Harlem." HTC's goal is to build a broad-based bottom up tenants' movement that can influence policies and programs that impact on low-income residents and neighborhood small businesses. HTC's members are tenants living in public housing, city and privately owned properties and small business owners.
Hometown
Harlem
Country
United States
Companies
Harlem Tenants Council
