The Pledge for “ No Eviction/ Foreclosure/Buy-out/Gentrification/ Displacement ” Zones from Before It’s Gone// Take It Back
- I will get to know more of my neighbors, support their struggles and have their back. I pledge to stand with my neighbors against foreclosures, forced evictions, buyouts and price outs. I pledge to support the businesses that are essential to low-to-middle income people in my neighborhood . I pledge to do everything in my power to stay and fight for my neighborhood
- I pledge to come out to more community meetings, rallies, press conferences, and marches for affordable housing . I will support and /or participate in lawsuits, letter writing campaigns, picket lines, rent strikes, eviction blockades, lobby days and other tactics to hold corporate developers and greedy landlords accountable to my community. I will use my skills, share my ideas, and get more people involved in my community in order to make our Gentrification Resistance Movement stronger.
- Since studies have shown that gentrification and police harassment go hand in hand, I pledge to not allow the NYPD to unlawfully harass or violate the civil rights of my neighbors or myself. I pledge to document in writing, take pictures, and to report police harassment or brutality to my local cop watch group or an anti-police brutality organization
- I will not allow landlords or management companies to mistreat tenants, illegally raise the rent, not make repairs and other forms of harassment in my neighborhood. I will do everything in my power to support my neighbors so we can save our homes.
- I pledge to submit pictures, videos, artwork that celebrate Brooklyn life to the Before It’s Gone// Take It Back anti-gentrification website. I will document changes in my neighborhood due to gentrification as well as community victories.
- I will believe that we will WIN
