About Us
About Brooklyn Jubilee
Brooklyn Jubilee aims to empower low-income Brooklyn tenants with knowledge about their housing rights. Brooklyn Jubilee will support the work of local churches, schools and non-profit agencies, particularly those organizations located in the neediest parts of our neighborhood.
In 2005, the future Board of Directors (including the pastors of PSPC and Resurrection Presbyterian in Williamburg), and the future Executive Director Sandhya Reju began laying the foundation for Brooklyn Jubilee. In May 2006, Brooklyn Jubilee was incorporated.
Brooklyn Jubilee's first (but not last) program began in August 2006 - a legal services ministry, providing advice to low-income tenants at the Helping Hands food pantry. Working under the supervision of one or more attorneys, volunteers will work directly with food pantry clients during their normal Saturday morning grocery pick-up to answer basic questions to learn about their rights to housing, food stamps, and public health insurance. Through regular on-site legal clinics, in which low-income tenants are able to speak with a lawyer, Brooklyn Jubilee aims to equip tenants to advocate for themselves to preserve affordable housing and obtain repairs in their apartments.