HOUSING SEARCH SUPPORT

Confront housing discrimination by helping a fellow New Yorker secure a safe and affordable apartment!

The Housing Search Support Project is a mutual aid endeavor helping New Yorkers who have experienced homelessness or housing insecurity to secure safe and affordable apartments. Finding an apartment is hard, and managing this with a rental assistance voucher is even harder, as landlords and brokers commonly discriminate against people with vouchers, based on prejudices and assumptions about people who have experienced housing instability. Working to fight this bigotry and exclusion, the project pairs volunteers 1-on-1 with housing seekers to work in solidarity on the housing search.Each partnership is unique, but volunteer activities can include searching apartment listings on sites like Zillow and StreetEasy, calling brokers to set up appointments, reporting discrimination by landlords or brokers, and providing moral support in the challenge of finding affordable housing in New York City. Housing Search Support is a project done in coalition with Neighbors Together and The Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center, and Unlock.nyc. If you are interested in helping someone secure an apartment, you can get in touch right HERE.