Lucy Block
Senior Research and Data Associate
Senior Research and Data Associate
Lucy.B@anhd.org
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212-747-1117, ext. 13
Lucy Block (she/her) is ANHD's Senior Research and Data Associate. She is responsible for data analysis, research, and policy to support the tenant organizing movement and end displacement in New York City’s communities of color and low-income neighborhoods. Lucy manages ANHD's Displacement Alert Project. She received a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College in 2017 and was a Morgan Stanley Community Development Fellow placed at Cypress Hills LDC from 2016-2017. She also teaches courses in data analysis, visualization, and storytelling at NYU Wagner. Lucy grew up in Stuyvesant Town and now lives in Elmhurst, Queens. She loves New York City most in the summer and begrudgingly tolerates New York City in the winter.
Lucy Block's News and Content
Blog
November 1, 2022
ANHD and the Right to Counsel Coalition have launched a new website, the NYC Eviction Crisis Monitor, with interactive charts on the current crisis in NYC housing courts.
Blog
June 15, 2022
ANHD’s Response to Mayor Eric Adams’ Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness
We are thrilled that after years of ANHD-led advocacy, the Adams Administration has finally moved New York City away from the problematic affordable housing unit count goals of past housing plans. That metric led to a focus on so-called affordable housing solutions that simply chased after numbers instead of prioritizing the needs of struggling New Yorkers. Instead, we should be focusing on the outcomes our communities need – outcomes like ending homelessness, preventing displacement, eliminating rent burdens, and ensuring safe, healthy housing for all. In order to accomplish those goals, we need to look holistically at the full housing landscape in NYC, and we applaud the Administration for incorporating the full spectrum of housing, from homelessness to NYCHA to tenant protections to homeownership in the Housing Our Neighbors blueprint.