PUSH Buffalo

Organize Buffalo residents to reform housing policy.

Other | United States of America | Affordable Housing |

http://pushbuffalo.org/

Overview

PUSH is a grassroots non profit community organization working to rebuild the West Side of Buffalo. PUSH organizes residents to confront institutions that perpetuate poverty on the West Side and to create and implement an action plan for improving the neighborhood. At PUSH we strive to Build a democratic action oriented organization capable of addressing the lack of living wage jobs and poor housing conditions on Buffalo s West Side Increase property ownership by low income residents through the PUSH Community Housing Co op Decrease the rate of housing abandonment by reclaiming empty houses from neglectful public and private owners and redevelop them for occupancy by low income residents Lead direct action campaigns against corporations and government agencies whose practices contribute to the high poverty rate on the West Side Create a replicable model of grassroots neighborhood organizing and redevelopment which can be employed in other low income neighborhoods throughout the Rust Belt