This article was co-authored by Sam Rabiyah, Data Lead & Engineer, and Angela Stovall, Research & Policy Manager In 2018, when JustFix launched Who Owns What (“WOW”), it provided organizers instantaneous portfolio-wide data about the size of a landlord, the quality of their housing, the frequency of evictions, and even…

Estimados amigos, Desde abril de 2020, más de 3,000 residentes de la ciudad de Nueva York han presentado un caso de emergencia contra sus dueños a través de nuestra herramienta Emergency HP Action (“EHPA”) para detener el acoso por parte de sus dueños y recibir reparaciones esenciales. Al principio de…

On Monday, June 28, 2021, housing organizers, advocates, legal service providers, elected officials, and key stakeholders, along with JustFix, sent a letter to Judge Lawrence K. …

Dear friends, Since April 2020, more than 3,000 New York City residents have filed emergency lawsuits against their landlords through our Emergency HP Action (“EHPA”) Tool to stop landlord harassment and receive essential repairs. At the beginning of the pandemic, the NYC Court system worked closely with JustFix to create…

Over the past year, there have been numerous moments when we’ve had to reflect on how we run our organization and how we treat our team during a time of pandemic and the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement. Additionally, with millions of tenants across the country facing eviction…

2020 was a year of growth for JustFix.nyc’s localization efforts, as we added Spanish to a number of our tools: Who Owns What NoRent.org Rent History Learning Center Main site Making our tools available to the millions of non-English speakers in New York City — and even more across the…

This past year was a year unlike any other. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives to COVID-19; millions of people have lost their jobs; our education systems have been crippled by restrictions and lack of access. And tragically, our most vulnerable have also suffered the most: it…

Lessons from Launching a Product During A Pandemic — In Spring of 2020, we built NoRent.org to help tenants inform their landlord of their inability to pay rent due to COVID-19. It sends a certified letter on the tenant’s behalf, citing state-level legal protections, and connects tenants to national and local #CancelRent campaigns, as well as organizing and legal…