Organizing Lessons Learned:

Multiple tactics are essential. Direct Action, confrontation, and disruption, combined with research and collective analysis, allowed PTH to create space for the perspective of homeless New Yorkers to be heard. It was also important to continue to support folks trapped in the rental subsidy shuffle, long after the campaign was “over”.

• Diversity of tactics is necessary

• Without direct action we don’t win anything

• Continual outreach is crucial

• Document what’s happening in the streets.

• Collective analysis of issues and solutions

• Political Education about the root causes and current conditions

• Research

• Write your own reports

• Be inviting to folks, especially folks sleeping in the streets, parks, etc.

• Know Your Rights education

• Support homeless folks to visibly represent the group

• Creative actions create space for media coverage and narrative shifting

• Whether you’re filing a lawsuit or proposing legislation, direct action is needed to keep up momentum and pressure

• Take the action to spaces of oppression

• Convert spaces of oppression to spaces of liberation

• Have fun

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