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One Flushing: Affordable housing, small business opportunity for the local community
An innovative mixed-use residential and commercial project will soon begin to take shape in Flushing, Queens, after the New York City Council gave its unanimous approval earlier this summer.
AAFE fights against tenant harassment on the Lower East Side
AAFE has helped organize a group of Essex Street tenants who are filing a lawsuit against their landlord for carrying out a frightening series of illegal construction jobs in a bid to force them out of their rent-stabilized apartments.
AAFE kicks off rehab of 244 Elizabeth St. affordable homeownership project
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) joined Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE), local elected officials, and the tenants of 244 Elizabeth Street to celebrate the start of construction at the five-story Lower East Side property.
289 Grand St. tenants celebrate return home
Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) joined members of the Chinatown community to celebrate the return of the tenants to 289 Grand Street this past spring.
Before and after: Inside an AAFE affordable housing preservation project
Gladys Castro has seen a lot in her 70 years. Originally from Puerto Rico, she has lived at 191 Madison Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side for 46 years. Gladys says her building has not always been safe. She recalls break-ins, robberies and even, on one occasion, being mugged at knife-point.