Community building is the key. It sustains the organization, and drives our collective work.
We work to educate ourselves and our neighbors so that we can best advocate and take action.
JFAC organizes events and actions to explicate our demands for just development in Queens and NYC.
We are a group of neighbors organizing and educating in western Queens. Our roots, base, and leadership are in the local public housing communities. Since 2016, we have worked together to fight for justice for all.
As a long-time resident of Astoria and a current resident of NYCHA’s Astoria Houses, Sylvia has been deeply impacted by the overdevelopment in LIC/Astoria and NYCHA’s funding deficits.
I had a great childhood growing up in Astoria, but it has changed to the point where I don’t see the same opportunities for today’s youth. I want to make a difference in uniting with JFAC to stand up and speak out against unaffordable living by rezoning and private developments; fighting for a better quality of life, not only for my son, but for the future of young people in our community.
I grew up in NYC, and hate to see the growing displacement of my fellow New Yorkers. I am also a working artist, and I was displaced from my workspace in LIC. This is also true for mom & pop stores and manufacturers. I am determined to unite with my friends and neighbors in JFA to fight back against the luxury developments facing our community!
I’m a 28 years old resident of Queensbridge Housing why should I have to worry about if I can live in this same community 20 years from now. I see with my own eyes all the construction that’s taking place in LIC/Astoria and all sister neighborhood. I joined J4ALL because of its faith background . They have a plan and purpose and I want to be able to see that come forward and be apart because I would love to be in this same area that raised me and help me become the woman I am.
It was a lucky day when I saw the flyer for a meeting of the Justice for All Coalition over a year ago. I moved to Astoria in the early 80’s because I could no longer afford Manhattan; and after a few years of missing Manhattan I came to love this neighborhood. The hyper-gentrification that I now see is horrifying. For me the housing issue is truly a meeting of the personal and political – I am personally threatened by the gentrification; as an activist I see the housing crisis as a global one. J4AC is a wonderful group of people whom I am happy to have met and work with.
I joined JFAC shortly after being displaced yet again by bad development deals and rising housing costs. It is both my belief in collective action as the answer to our individual crises AND the sense of community and comraderie that has sustained my participation. Even when things look bleak, we help hold each other together, cheer each other on, and find ways to fight for better futures for all.
As someone who has grown up in public housing, the issues facing NYCHA residents have always been personal to me.
Our children’s future well being, good will, prosperity, sky, and room to live all rely on local loyalty, doing unto others as we would have done unto us, demanding substantial participation in decisions which effect us, and organizations like JFAC, which reflect those goals. In short, to save my own life, job, home and neighborhood, I’m in.
The Justice For All Coalition, a grassroots group in western Queens, is hiring a part-time community organizer! Applications are due by July 31st, with priority given to applicants who apply by July 15th. Send questions Read more…
On Tuesday August 17, 2021, residents, neighbors, organizers, and legal advocates gathered in front of the Queensbridge South Management Office announce the filing of lawsuit against NYCHA for their failure to make repairs and maintain Read more…
On August 13th, 2021, Justice For All Coalition member sat down with the cofounders of the Save Section 9 Coalition and BronxNet to discuss the privatization of public housing. Check out the 30 minute interview Read more…
Text in Media Release: Residents Unite for Truth Commission on RAD/PACT and Privatization What: A panel of residents living in buildings that have converted to RAD or privatized through other means, or are in process, Read more…
Harlem River Houses Residents Reject RAD with Rent Strike What: Rally against RAD conversion at Harlem River Houses When: Saturday, May 1st, 2021, 1 pm Where: Gather at Colonel Charles Young Triangle, 153 St, Read more…
New Report Highlights Connections Between Policing and Public Housing Concluding: Defund the NYPD and Fund NYCHA Now QUEENS, NY: Today and long-standing public housing residents are among those that are hyper-policed – in our city Read more…
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PO Box 6546, Astoria, NY 11106
