Mount Vernon United Tenants

Now, more than ever, New York needs to preserve its affordable housing. The losses of subsidized and regulated housing have severely limited housing options for New York’s working families. The Real Rent Reform Campaign focuses on preserving over one million rent-regulated units and tens of thousands of apartments in the Mitchell-Lama and Project-Based Section 8 subsidy programs.

Along with many unions, housing groups, and community based organizations, Mount Vernon United Tenants has joined this important statewide campaign to fight to strengthen and preserve our affordable housing programs.

Watch the video below of our efforts over the course of 2009 to push our package of rent reform legislation.

For more information on the Real Rent Reform (R3) Campaign, visit

Join the fight to renew, strengthen rent laws
BY DENNIS HANRATTY

Budget cuts hurt tenants group
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
The Journal News

Re “Closing two shelters will not harm efforts to help homeless,” Nov. 20 Community View

Karl Bertrand’s above Community View is correct. He is right that the “progressive agenda…is to move away from shelters…by concentrating resources on 1) preventing evictions, and 2) rapidly rehousing people….” However, when he says that the county has achieved homelessness reduction by investing money in eviction prevention, he is wrong! The county has actually significantly reduced eviction prevention efforts. One such glaring example is Mount Vernon United Tenants, one of, if not the most effective eviction prevention agencies in the county. MVUT was recently completely defunded (after being funded for more than 20 years) due to the county’s austerity budget! The small annual grant MVUT received, $55,000 to $ 60,000, helped stop over 150 evictions every year! You can do the math