Our mission

The Metropolitan Council on Housing is dedicated to the belief that everyone deserves a decent, stable, affordable home. We educate, organize, empower, and engage tenants across New York City to be the drive behind developing permanent solutions to our city’s chronic affordable housing crisis.

What we do

The Metropolitan Council on Housing is a membership organization of New York City tenants working to create more humane housing policies. We are the city's oldest tenants union, and have been at the forefront of the most important struggles to preserve and expand New York’s affordable housing over the past half-century. We assist individual tenants and tenant associations in their efforts to prevent displacement and in securing decent conditions, and we organize tenants citywide to participate in campaigns to enhance tenants' rights and expand and improve our affordable housing programs.