Communities Resist (CoRe) seeks an experienced Supervising Housing Attorney to join a team combating gentrification, displacement, social disenfranchisement, and structural injustice through affirmative litigation before housing, state, and federal courts as well as administrative agencies.
CoRe is a legal services organization for housing and community justice steeped in the 50-year tradition of community lawyering in North and East Brooklyn. We have spent years working together with neighborhood organizations and organizers in representing hundreds of tenants and tenant associations toward enforcing their right to social citizenship by struggling, resisting, and enduring against any attempts to deny working communities, largely of color, their agency. The Supervising Attorney will work in collaboration with this extraordinary coalition of neighborhood organizations and their tenant and
community organizers to preserve and expand affordable housing for lower income residents of those areas—in the face of rapid gentrification and tenant displacement throughout their neighborhoods.
The primary job responsibilities of the Supervising Attorney are as follows:
Applicants must have the following minimum qualifications:
Applicants possessing the following qualifications will be viewed favorably:
Communities Resist (CoRe) seeks an experienced Supervising Housing Attorney to join a team combating gentrification, displacement, social disenfranchisement, and structural injustice through affirmative litigation before housing, state, and federal courts as well as administrative agencies.
CoRe is a legal services organization for housing and community justice steeped in the 50-year tradition of community lawyering in North and East Brooklyn. We have spent years working together with neighborhood organizations and organizers in representing hundreds of tenants and tenant associations toward enforcing their right to social citizenship by struggling, resisting, and enduring against any attempts to deny working communities, largely of color, their agency. The Supervising Attorney will work in collaboration with this extraordinary coalition of neighborhood organizations and their tenant and
community organizers to preserve and…
Excellent health and other benefits.
Excellent health and other benefits.
Second language ability is a major plus.
Second language ability is a major plus.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. To apply, forward a cover letter with your resume to:
Angela Piguave, Deputy Executive Director,
E-mail: apiguave@communitiesresist.org
Please put ‘Supervising Attorney’ in the subject line.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. To apply, forward a cover letter with your resume to:
Angela Piguave, Deputy Executive Director,
E-mail: apiguave…