The Community Development Project provides legal, technical, research and policy assistance to grassroots community groups engaged in a wide range of organizing and advocacy efforts throughout New York City.

All services are offered free of charge. We encourage you to click here and read about the types of services we offer and the issue areas in which we normally work before contacting us for assistance.

If you work for a grassroots community group and are interested in receiving services from CDP, please call our hotline at (646) 459-3017, or email us at cdp@urbanjustice.org.

Goddard Riverside’s SRO Law Project and Urban Justice Center’s West Side Housing Clinics and Workshops

593 Columbus Avenue:

September 1, 2010
Workshop topic - Rent Guidelines Board

October 6, 2010
Workshop topic- Landlord Harassment

November 3, 2010
Workshop topic – HPs Repairs, Bedbugs and Cockroaches

December 1, 2010
Workshop topic – Preferential Rents

Bernie Wohl Center at 647 Columbus Avenue:

February 2, 2011
Workshop topic – Non-Primary Residence

March 2, 2011
Workshop topic – DHCR Overview, including MCIs and 1/40ths

April 6, 2011
Workshop topic – City-Wide Housing Related Campaigns

May 4, 2011
Workshop topic – Crises: Foreclosures and Predatory Equity

June 1, 2011
Workshop topic – Succession Rights