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PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INCORPORATED

BUFFALO, New York

The mission of PUSH Buffalo is to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality, affordable housing, expand local hiring opportunities and to advance economic justice in Buffalo. PUSH Buffalo is a local membership-based community organization fighting to make affordable housing a reality on Buffalo’s West Side. PUSH was founded by Aaron Bartley and Eric Walker in 2005. PUSH Buffalo was established to: Create strong neighborhoods with quality affordable housing; Decrease the rate of housing abandonment by reclaiming empty houses from neglectful public and private owners and redeveloping them for occupancy by low-income residents; and Develop neighborhood leaders capable of gaining community control over the development process and planning for the future of the neighborhood.

Over the last decade, PUSH Buffalo has built a powerful, grassroots movement guided by racial, economic and environmental justice and rooted in the realities of poor and working class people living in Buffalo. PUSH has modeled the Just Transition (transition from an extractive economy to a restorative economy that values people, climate justice and resilience) in the Green Development Zone (GDZ), a place-based initiative focused in a 25-block district on Buffalo’s West Side. Renewable ... Read More

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