1. Triage and Rapid Response to provide emotional, legal and logistical support to people facing evictions, tenant harassment, police violence, and other crises.

2. Accountability and Structural Change in order for people to organize campaigns to hold landlords, developers, and the police accountable for the crises they have caused. This also includes strengthening community-led strategies that focus on community control and self-reliance , i.e tenant associations, building-wide communication, mediations, community safety plans to support survivors of violence, cop watch teams, homeowner support groups, etc.

and most importantly

3. Abolition of systems and institutions that have historically oppressed our peoples.

Equality for Flatbush defines ‘gentrification’ as a concerted, deliberate effort to price out low-to-middle income residents from neighborhoods by city government, corporations, real estate developers, and landlords in favor of renting, selling, and catering to people of higher and/or more flexible incomes. We see gentrification as an intersectional issue that is deeply connected to the ways that race, class, gender, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, nation of origin, immigration status, physical and mental capacity, etc. impact individuals and our communities.

We also see a distinct difference between the historic voluntary migration of working and middle class families from cities to the suburbs as opposed to the current situation where existing communities are being involuntarily priced out, bought out, and forcibly removed from their neighborhoods by corporate developers.

We know from first-hand experience that the same unscrupulous property owners who use tactics to force long-time older tenants of color out of their rent-stabilized apartments will turn around and illegally overcharge incoming younger white tenants for the same apartment. For this very reason, we believe that all of us-long-time and new residents, communities of color and white communities, low-income and middle-class people – have a stake in the urgent struggle to save affordable housing in Brooklyn.