Building tenant power across the Hudson Valley through collective action and community organizing.
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Donate nowThe Hudson Valley is an epicenter of the housing crisis currently gripping the nation. While tenants have been under siege, they have also led the fight for tenant protections in New York.
Guarantees lease renewals and caps annual rent increases at 8.45%. Requires landlords to provide valid reasons for evictions.
Protected cities: Poughkeepsie (City & Town), Kingston, Newburgh, Beacon, Middletown, New Paltz, Fishkill, Catskill, Hudson, Croton-on-Hudson, Nyack, Pleasant Valley
Appointed boards with tenant representation determine annual rent adjustments. Kingston achieved the first-ever 15% rent reduction in 2022.
Fighting for the REST Act to expand stabilization across the Hudson Valley.
The Warrant of Habitability protects tenants from unsafe conditions. As of 2024, tenants can now proactively sue landlords who violate these rights.
Proactive legal action now available for unsafe housing conditions
These hard-won rights require tenants to work together to be effective. When we organize with our neighbors, we can use these protections to win real improvements.
Learn More About Your RightsBorn from the historic victory in Kingston, where organized tenants won a 15% rent reduction in 2022, the first-ever rent stabilized reduction in the country. When tenants organized together, they achieved what no one thought was possible.
Today, the Hudson Valley Tenants Union continues that fight across the region. With Good Cause Eviction protections spreading to 13 cities and towns, we're helping tenants know their rights, organize their buildings, and win real improvements in their living conditions.
Recent media coverage about tenant protections and organizing
A newly created union aims to protect and advocate for renters all across the Hudson Valley. The Hudson Valley Tenants Union adopted a constitution at its first general assembly in June in Kingston, elected leadership and set an agenda for the upcoming year.
Read moreMembers also proposed and voted on resolutions to guide the work of the Hudson Valley Tenants Union over the next year. After debate and deliberation, all five resolutions proposed passed with nearly unanimous majorities.
Read moreSo now obeying the law is optional? At least if you can afford lawyers? Maybe that really is the American Way.
Read moreWhen tenants work alone against bad landlords, they risk being singled out and persecuted. But when tenants organize together, they can use their collective power to win real improvements.
Tenant Associations shift the balance of power. Landlords have money because tenants pay them. When tenants organize and work collectively, they can reclaim that power and force landlords to meet their demands.
Safety in solidarity - no more facing landlords alone
Negotiate from a position of strength
Achieve better living conditions together
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