NELLIE HESTER BAILEY
Co-founder & Director
Harlem Tenants Council
www.harlemtenantscouncil.com
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Nellie Hester Bailey is co-founder of
Harlem Tenants Council (HTC), created to
"provide relief for the poor and to combat
community deterioration as a result of the
accelerated pace of gentrification in Harlem."
HTC's goal is to build a broad-based bottom up
tenants' movement that can influence policies
and programs that impact on low-income residents
and neighborhood small businesses. The group
organizes educational forums, provides free
legal counseling, builds ties with Harlem
churches and businesses and organizes
demonstrations to draw attention to the housing
crisis. HTC's members are tenants living in
public housing, city and privately owned
properties and small business owners.
Recognizing that the lack of affordable
housing affects all low income New Yorkers, HTC
works in coalition with progressive groups
throughout the city to create a comprehensive
urban housing agenda, build a unified front to
demand socially responsible housing practices
and hold elected officials accountable for their
policies. Together, they have protested
compulsory work requirements for tenants living
in public housing and demanded legal
representation for all tenants in housing court.
In 2000, HTC challenged the plan to transfer
city owned buildings to third parties and won
transfer of buildings now slated for low-income
tenants' equity cooperatives.
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NELLIE HESTER BAILEY
New York, NY
Since joining SNCC in the 1960s, Nellie Hester
Bailey has worked to build a broad-based
movement for social and economic justice. During
decades of tenant organizing, she helped win
hundreds of rent strikes and today, as Executive
Director of the Harlem Tenants Council, she is
spearheading the fight to protect Harlem
residents from the impact of gentrification.
Nellie also co-chairs the multi-racial Citywide
Tenants Coalition and is a leader of alliances
focused on police brutality and international
solidarity.
