Thank-you for joining Equality for Flatbush (E4F) ’s Judge Accountability Campaign to pick the "Worst 3 Judges in Brooklyn.

We are looking for community-based organizations and social service agencies to become community partners for our BK Housing Court Judge Campaign.

Ways your organization can participate:

1. Become a survey pick-up site, where people can have access to multilingual paper accountability surveys . Currently we have paper and online surveys in Arabic, Kreyol, Spanish and English

2. Invite E4F to give a presentation about the judge accountability campaign to your community members and/or staff 

3. Assist with research, media coverage, social media, language justice, community events, data analysis, legal and community outreach for the campaign.

Here is more information on the campaign. Looking forward to collaborating with you.

 Equality for Flatbush (E4F) 

Background 

In 2023, evictions in Brooklyn rose to 3,500 which is triple the amount of 2022. In 2017, when the NYS housing movement won better rent laws, the infamous Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) began suing the State over these “anti-landlord” laws . REBNY has also been targeting judges that they believe are “pro-tenant” and demanding that judges be more “fair” to landlords. 

 In 2024, based on the feedback of our tenants who are court-involved,  the level of Anti-Black /Latine racism, misogyny and ageism of Brooklyn Housing Court Judges is completely out of control. Tenants are reporting being berated in open court, not being informed of their rights, feeling forced to make decisions that are clearly not in their favor or feeling like the judge is in cahoots with the landlord to evict them. Brooklyn Housing Court is literally destroying lives.  

In response, Equality for Flatbush is launching a public Judge Accountability Campaign to pick the "Worst 3 Judges in Brooklyn Housing Court”  We will have online and paper surveys in Arabic, Kreyol, Spanish and English with the hope we can add more languages as we go. The goals are to gather data along with audio and video stories at Brooklyn Housing Court , Brooklyn shelters and partner with various social service agencies to hold the anti-tenant judges accountable. We also hope that the campaign will reign in the abusive behavior and anti-tenant rulings through the political and media attention that we hope to gain .  

E4F has never done a data collection campaign of this magnitude before but it is no longer enough to just fight landlords and politicians, while the judicial system is part and parcel of the displacement of BIPOC Brooklynites.

Special Thank you all the E4F tenant leaders, activists and our elders who have worked on making this survey possible ! 

If you would like to help this campaign to help get out the paper surveys, provide written translation, make graphics, help people to fill out surveys or to have your agency or group partner with E4F to reach as many people as possible , contact Equality for Flatbush at : 

* English:(646) 820-6039 or b4g@equalityforflatbush.org 

* Kreyol: (267) 277-3143 or EnKreyol@equalityforflatbush.org 

* Spanish: (732)789-0057 or EnSPA@equalityforflatbush.org