People United for Sustainable Housing
PUSH is a grassroots, non-profit community organization working to rebuild the West Side of Buffalo. PUSH organizes residents to confront institutions that perpetuate poverty on the West Side and to create and implement an action plan for improving the neighborhood.
PUSH strives to:
* Create a model of grassroots neighborhood organizing and redevelopment, which can be employed in other low-income neighborhoods throughout the Rust Belt
* Build a democratic, action-oriented organization capable of addressing poor housing condition and the lack of living wage in the neighborhoods
* Increase the control of property by low-income residents through the PUSH Community Housing Co-op
* Decrease the rate of housing abandonment by reclaiming empty houses from neglectful public and private owners and redeveloping them for occupancy by low-income residents
* Lead direct action campaigns against corporations and government agencies whose practices contribute to the high poverty rate in the neighborhoods
www.pushbuffalo.org/
People United for Sustainable Housing
271 Grant Street
Buffalo NY
716-884-0356
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