The Coalition Continues to Rock
The Coalition empowers everyday, ordinary people to take ownership of the community campaigns that have renewed life in the Bronx. Leaders of the Coalition have valuable lessons to teach other community organizations on how to win on a variety of issues ranging from affordable housing to improving local schools to passing national banking legislation. When community leaders talk about living in the Bronx in the 1970′s, they tell stories of entire neighborhoods abandoned. Fires broke out night after night leaving thousands of people homeless each year as absentee landlords sought quick insurance payouts for their buildings. Local community leaders seethed with anger at how the City had abandoned their communities to drugs, crime and neglect.