GOLES SERVICES
Tenant Organizing & Advocacy
¨ Tenant Rights Counseling: Tenants in rent
regulated apartments, Public Housing, and Section 8 have
rights! GOLES provides information and counseling regarding
how tenants can protect their rights and get the services to
which they are entitled. ¨ Eviction Prevention: GOLES works with tenants
who are at risk of eviction to assure that they are aware of
their rights and, as needed, are referred to the legal and
social services available to them.
¨ Project-Based Section 8 Organizing: GOLES works with tenants and
Tenant Associations in project-based Section 8 buildings to
fight for long-term contract renewals in buildings at risk of "opting out" of the program and to assure that tenants
receive the services and repairs to which they are entitled.
¨ Tenant Association Development:
GOLES works with tenants in organizing and strengthening tenant associations
(TA's). By working
together TA's are able to fight for quality repairs, stop
landlord harassment, and protect
low-income tenants from being displaced.
Together tenants can make a difference!
¨ Landlord/Tenant Mediation: GOLES meditates
between landlords and tenants in an attempt to reach equitable
resolutions addressing both parties concerns in lieu of court
proceedings.
¨ The Lower East Side Tenant Union represents the Tenant Associations of LES buildings, as well as individual
tenants. Tenants
living in privately owned buildings, Public Housing, and
project-based Section 8 buildings are all working together in
the Tenant Union to protect affordable housing, and the
diversity of the Lower East Side.
¨ Public Housing Organizing: GOLES
works with its sister organization PHROLES (Public Housing
Residents of the Lower East Side)
to educate and empower public housing residents to
protect their rights, improve policies and services and create
opportunities for residents.
¨ Community Organizing: GOLES and community
members work towards increasing community participation in
quality of life issues, such as noise, on the Lower East Side.
In addition, GOLES participates in citywide campaigns
to preserve affordable housing.
¨ Workforce Development: GOLES
provides access to job readiness, training, and
employment and supportive services for the unemployed and the
underemployed.
¨ Training's & Education:
GOLES provides training in tenants rights, community organizing and
community development.
¨ Loisaida Voice: GOLES publishes as a free quarterly newsletter written by and for residents
in English and Spanish. Call GOLES for a copy to find out more
about your neighborhood or to share information for an
article.
¨ Retail
Action Project:
GOLES organizes in our community to support retail workers
in Lower Manhattan fighting to challenge injustices in their
workplaces and gain the wages, working conditions, and respect
they deserve.
¨ Finding
Our CommUnity Strength (FOCUS) on the Lower East Side:
GOLES is conducting a comprehensive assessment of the critical
issues facing residents and small businesses in our neighborhood,
and is educating community residents on land use and development
issues. Through F.O.C.U.S., we aim to demystify public processes
surrounding land-use and large-scale development planing and
to engage residents in helping to shape the future of the
Lower East Side.
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