{"id":25,"date":"2016-02-03T22:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:41:05","slug":"what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/what-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8544 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/Rally-6.21.23-e1741981245164-300x287.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/Rally-6.21.23-e1741981245164-300x287.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/Rally-6.21.23-e1741981245164-1024x981.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/Rally-6.21.23-e1741981245164-768x736.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/Rally-6.21.23-e1741981245164-627x600.jpeg 627w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/Rally-6.21.23-e1741981245164.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Individual Building Organizing<\/h2>\n<p>We organize tenants in forming and sustaining strong Tenant Associations that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organize to get repairs<\/li>\n<li>Fight against landlord harassment \u2013 Ensure that tenants know their rights<\/li>\n<li>Build a sense of community and accountability in the building<\/li>\n<li>Stop displacement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tenant Coalition Organizing<\/h2>\n<p>We bring tenants from different buildings together that are experiencing common problems or who have the same abusive landlord. There\u2019s power in numbers! CASA\u2019s powerful tenant coalitions have fought large battles and won huge, far reaching victories and kicked some of the worst landlords out of the Bronx!<\/p>\n<h2>Membership Led Campaigns<\/h2>\n<p>We know we can\u2019t win our fight for affordable housing building by building, so we run local campaigns that protect affordability and prevent displacement. See <a href=\"http:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/our-campaigns\/\">Our Campaigns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Legislative Advocacy<\/h2>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Legislative Advocacy:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">We work with various state and city-wide coalitions such as the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/righttocounselnyc.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">the Right To Counsel coalition<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, and many more, to fight for broader, city and statewide policy objectives that preserve safe and affordable housing and ensure tighter protections for tenants.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Tenant Education<\/h2>\n<p>We regularly conduct skills trainings as well as monthly tenants&#8217; rights workshops around basic tenants\u2019 rights and the importance of organizing tenant associations.<\/p>\n<h2>Leadership Development<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW107618648 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107618648 BCX0\">Our ultimate goal is to build a unified and empowered local community full of knowledgeable and strong leaders.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107618648 BCX0\"> We put leadership development at the forefront of our work. We have a <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW107618648 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/casapower.org\/casa-leaders-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW107618648 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentStart CommentHighlightPipeRestRefresh CommentHighlightRest SCXW107618648 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">CASA Leaders Team<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW107618648 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentHighlightPipeRestRefresh SCXW107618648 BCX0\"> that meets monthly to plan our monthly membership meetings and make strategic decisions about our work. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107618648 BCX0\">We also hav<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107618648 BCX0\">e a <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107618648 BCX0\">Leadership Development Institute that trains members in both political education, so that we can deepen our theory and understanding and also concrete organizing skills, so that we can deepen our skills.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW107618648 BCX0\"> Our Leadership Development Institute is a 5-week course that happens twice a year.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW107618648 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:225}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/02\/p1000914.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27\" src=\"http:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/02\/p1000914-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"p1000914\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Individual Building Organizing We organize tenants in forming and sustaining strong Tenant Associations that: Organize to get repairs Fight against landlord harassment \u2013 Ensure that tenants know their rights Build a sense of community and accountability in the building Stop displacement Tenant Coalition Organizing We bring tenants from different buildings together that are experiencing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8545,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/8545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}