For New Yorkers, stopping tenant displacement is one of the most urgent issues of the day. This is true for residents facing the threat of eviction, for communities being destabilized, and for the community groups and policy makers trying to address the crisis.

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We all know that our city’s affordable housing is under ever-growing threat because of rising displacement pressures from an out-of-control real estate market and landlords willing to use systematic harassment to get around the rent laws. This threat is most severe for families and communities in low-income, immigrant, and neighborhoods of color. 

Educating and organizing at-risk tenants to fight back against displacement pressure can be an effective response.  But too often, community groups only get to a building after a cycle of landlord-driven displacement has eliminated much of the affordable housing.

 

The Displacement Alert Project (DAP) is designed to address this problem by providing effective early warning information. We use data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a rising risk of displacement. With this information, community groups, decision makers, and local residents themselves can take strategic steps to push back with outreach, education, and organizing strategies.

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Each of the Displacement Alert Project tools compiles information from various fragmented public records and databases, and makes it accessible, intuitive, and useful by displaying it in one place with color-coded risk metrics and creative data visualization.

 

The Displacement Alert Project (DAP) is made possible with support from the Ford Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the New York City Council, and the New York State Senate. 

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