The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD) is a membership organization of New York City nonprofit neighborhood housing groups. Their mission is to ensure flourishing neighborhoods and decent, affordable housing for all New Yorkers.

The Rent Guidelines Board is mandated to establish rent adjustments for the nearly one million dwelling units subject to the Rent Stabilization Law in New York City.

Tenants' rights with a focus on New York City and State.

National Low Income Housing Coalition Established in 1974, the National Low Income Housing Coalition/LIHIS is dedicated solely to ending America's affordable housing crisis. NLIHC educates, organizes, and advocates to ensure decent, affordable housing within healthy neighborhoods for everyone.

The Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) is responsible for the supervision, maintenance and development of affordable low- and moderate-income housing in New York State.

Shelterforce is published by the National Housing Institute, a 26-year old independent nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America.

Good Jobs First is a project of ITEP, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization tracking government tax and spending policy issues.

The Fiscal Policy Institute is a nonpartisan research and education organization that focuses on the broad range of tax, budget, economic and related public policy issues that affect the quality of life and the economic well-being of New York State residents.

PRRAC is a non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups. Their purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to successfully address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.

CLASP is a national nonprofit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system.

The National Alliance for Fair Employment (NAFFE) is an alliance of organizations across a broad range of constituencies affected by problems associated with nonstandard work, such as part-time, temporary and contract employment system.

Jobs for the Future develops, strengthens, and promotes learning strategies and workforce solutions.

Working in collaboration with government, the Vera Institute of Justice designs and implements innovative programs that encourage just practices in public services and improve the quality of urban life.

The Community Justice Exchange offers information and assistance to help bring together criminal justice agencies and ordinary citizens to make communities safer.

Located in New York, the Center for Court Innovation is a unique public-private partnership that promotes new thinking about how courts can solve difficult problems like addiction, quality-of-life crime, domestic violence, and child neglect

The Center on Crime Communities & Culture seeks to break the cycle of incarceration, reduce racial disparity in the criminal justice system, and promote safer communities through support for concrete policy changes that provide opportunities for individuals to live successfully on the outside and reduce over-incarceration.

The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services offers sentencing alternatives for low-level offenders, mentally ill offenders and young people charged with their first serious crime, that are tailored to their particular circumstances and that also address the needs of the courts.

Center for Community Change has been nationally recognized for its work helping people build organizations and create better communities and policies.

The Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED) was established in 1963 to create a partnership between Pratt Institute's Department of City and Regional Planning and local organizations that were struggling to address issues of urban deterioration and poverty.

City Limits is recognized for its authoritative investigations into the city housing, welfare and health care bureaucracies and the criminal justice system, as well as our hard-hitting economic and environmental reporting.

The Welfare Law Center's site on welfare rights and community organizing.

CDVCA promotes use of the tools of venture capital to create jobs, entrepreneurial capacity and wealth to advance the livelihoods of low-income people and the economies of distressed communities.

The National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED) is the trade association and advocate for the community-based development industry.

The New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN) is a citywide not-for-profit organization established to strengthen New York City's manufacturing sector, save manufacturing jobs and build the capacity of the organizations in NYIRN's network that provide services to manufacturers.

COMM-ORG helps connect people who care about the craft of community organizing; to find and provide information that organizers, scholars, and scholar-organizers can use to learn, teach, and do community organizing, and; to involve all COMM-ORG members in meeting those goals.

NYC Public Affairs

Gotham Gazette covers New York City news, politics & policy.

A resource for people in the nonprofit sector who need community-specific data in New York City.

Interactivist Network seeks to offer new, dissenting perspectives, and to disseminate information about newsworthy events often overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream media.