Right To The City Alliance

What Right To The City Alliance does

Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit alliance founded in 2007 and headquartered at 388 Atlantic Ave, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY. It functions as a national coordinating body for more than 90 grassroots racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice member organizations operating in over 26 U.S. states. Its operational focus is housing justice, tenant rights, eviction protection, and community-controlled affordable housing, organized through flagship campaigns (Homes for All, Beyond Recovery), training programs (Renter Nation political education series, Renter Power Assembly, Rooted & Ready eviction defense), and policy research outputs (Rise of the Corporate Landlord, We Call These Projects Home, Critical Role of Renters, Roots and Canopies of Community Stewardship).

RTTC's product portfolio is movement infrastructure rather than software. Core deliverables include campaign assets, downloadable toolkits, multilingual political education resources (English, Spanish, Chinese), a Rent Debt Dashboard hosted in partnership with the National Equity Atlas, and a 2024 multi-state swing-state voter poll on housing affordability co-produced with the Center for Popular Democracy and HIT Strategies. Technology is intentionally lightweight — a Webflow-hosted website, social media channels (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Flickr), email newsletter infrastructure, and digital action tools (petition, pledge, polling). No proprietary stack, public API, SDK, or AI/ML capabilities are disclosed.

Revenue is generated through individual donations and institutional philanthropy from a disclosed set of foundations including the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Kendeda Fund, McKnight Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, New York Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Solidago Foundation, Hill Snowdon Foundation, and the Neighborhood Funders Group. RTTC is a co-convener of the It Takes Roots alliance of alliances alongside the Climate Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, extending its distribution into climate and Indigenous movements across 50+ states, provinces, territories, and Native lands in the U.S. and Canada. Executive Director Dawn Phillips leads the organization, which is governed by its member organizations rather than shareholders; no financial revenue figure is publicly disclosed.

Name

Right To The City Alliance

Legal name

Right to the City Alliance

Website

https://righttothecity.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Right to the City Alliance is a 501(c)(3) national housing justice alliance of 90+ grassroots member organizations across 26+ U.S. states, organizing for tenant rights, eviction protections, and permanently affordable housing through campaigns, training, and policy research.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Housing Justice Advocacy and Grassroots Organizing

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC)

Keywords

• Housing justice organizing
• Tenant rights advocacy
• Grassroots coalition building
• Renter political education
• Anti-displacement campaigns

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual donations: Direct contributions solicited from supporters via website donate page. Funds are leveraged to support RTTC programs and member organization victories.
2. Institutional philanthropy / grants: Funding from foundations and philanthropic partners including Neighborhood Funders Group, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Kendeda Fund, McKnight Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, New York Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Solidago Foundation, Hill Snowdon Foundation, and others.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Right to the City Alliance is a national nonprofit alliance of more than 90 grassroots member organizations across 26+ U.S. states that organizes for housing justice, tenants' rights, and community-led housing solutions. It delivers a portfolio of movement-building campaigns (Homes for All, Beyond Recovery, Renter Nation), political education toolkits, eviction defense training, policy reports, and data resources such as the Rent Debt Dashboard. The alliance is funded primarily through individual donations and foundation grants from institutions such as Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Product overview

Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) is not a software company but a national housing justice alliance of more than 90 grassroots member organizations across 26+ U.S. states. Its product offering is a portfolio of movement-building campaigns, political education resources, organizing toolkits, and reports rather than a single unified software product or platform. Its flagship Homes for All Campaign anchors the coalition, supported by training and political education programs such as Renter Nation (multi-episode webinar training), Renter Power Assembly toolkit, and Rooted & Ready Eviction Defense Training Series. Research and policy assets include the Rent Debt Dashboard (linking to the National Equity Atlas), Critical Role of Renters, We Call These Projects Home, Rise of the Corporate Landlord, and The New Bottom Line reports, plus the Climate Justice policy framework Roots and Canopies of Community Stewardship. Language access resources include the trilingual Transformative Organizing Glossary and the Language Justice Toolkit. RTTC also participates in broader coalitions, including the It Takes Roots alliance and the Green New Deal Network.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Homes for All: Homes for All (HFA) is a campaign/initiative of Right to the City Alliance uniting a growing movement of renters and housing justice organizers to win permanently affordable, dignified homes for all; features its own pledge, values & principles, and Greenbook.
• Renter Nation
• Beyond Recovery
• It Takes Roots
• Green New Deal Network

Products and services

• Homes for All Campaign Homes for All is the alliance's flagship national campaign uniting renters and housing justice organizers under a shared values and principles framework to win permanently affordable, dignified homes for all in the United States.
• Renter Nation Training Series A multi-episode political education and webinar training series equipping organizers with campaign toolkits for rent control, just cause eviction protections, community land trusts, and anti-displacement organizing.
• Rent Debt Dashboard A research resource linking to the National Equity Atlas rent debt visualization, providing data on tenant rent debt and eviction risk to support eviction crisis advocacy and organizing.
• Beyond Recovery Campaign A COVID-19 era campaign demanding federal eviction moratorium protections, rent cancellation, and community-controlled housing solutions, operated jointly with the Homes for All campaign.
• It Takes Roots Alliance A multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational alliance of alliances co-led by Right to the City Alliance alongside Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, and Indigenous Environmental Network to fight for racial, gender, housing, and climate justice.
• Homes for All Greenbook A downloadable organizing guide that supports communities to build the Homes for All movement, with frameworks and tactics for local campaigns.
• Renter Power Assembly Toolkit A downloadable political education toolkit for convening local renter power assemblies to deepen member organizing capacity.
• Rooted & Ready Eviction Defense Training Series An eviction defense training series providing organizers with materials and curricula for direct tenant defense against displacement.
• Roots and Canopies of Community Stewardship A downloadable policy framework integrating housing and climate justice, articulating how to stabilize and build resilient communities through just transition away from an extractive economy.
• Transformative Organizing Glossary of Terms (English, Spanish & Chinese) A trilingual glossary of transformative organizing terminology made available in English, Spanish, and Chinese to support cross-language coalition building.
• Language Justice: A Toolkit For Organizers A downloadable toolkit for organizers to operationalize language justice practices within the Homes for All coalition.
• We Call These Projects Home A downloadable report focused on public housing, tenant ownership, and resident-led stewardship of affordable housing projects.
• Rise of the Corporate Landlord A political education report analyzing the rise of corporate landlords and trends impacting renters across the United States.
• Critical Role of Renters A downloadable research and policy report under the Renters Rising Housing Crisis category framing renters as critical economic and political actors.
• The New Bottom Line: Building Alignment and Scale to Confront the Economic Crisis

Named customers9 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Center for Popular Democracy: National network of community-led organizations advancing racial, economic, and housing justice. Co-developed the Voters & the Housing Crisis poll with RTTC and operates an overlapping alliance model focused on member-driven organizing and policy advocacy.
• National Low Income Housing Coalition: National advocacy organization dedicated to ending the affordable housing shortage for the lowest-income renters. Direct peer on federal housing policy, renter advocacy, and tenant protection campaigns; comparable scale and constituency.
• Climate Justice Alliance: Member-based alliance of frontline communities organizing for climate justice. Co-convened It Takes Roots with RTTC; comparable alliance-of-organizations model and cross-movement strategy, particularly given RTTC's Roots and Canopies climate-housing framework.
• People's Action: National network of grassroots organizations advancing economic, racial, and housing justice. Listed as a National Housing Partner alongside RTTC; comparable scale, member-driven model, and federal/state policy advocacy on tenant protections.
• National Housing Law Project: National housing advocacy and legal support organization advancing the rights of low-income renters. Direct peer on tenant protection laws, eviction defense, and federal housing policy; complements RTTC's grassroots organizing with legal expertise.

Others

• ACLU (Housing/Equity Programs): National civil rights organization with significant housing justice litigation and policy work. Adjacent peer addressing fair housing and tenants' rights through legal strategy rather than grassroots organizing; comparable brand recognition and funder base.

Emerging players

• Make Room: National nonprofit focused on rental affordability and renter advocacy through research, narrative, and policy. Overlaps on renter mobilization and storytelling; smaller and more focused on federal policy communications than RTTC's grassroots alliance model.

Broad incumbents

• Enterprise Community Partners: Major national nonprofit working on affordable housing and community development. Comparable size and funder relationships, with a broader housing finance and development mandate that overlaps with RTTC's housing justice mission.
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC): Established national community development financial institution supporting affordable housing and equitable neighborhood development. Operates broadly across housing justice with significant funding capacity; less movement-oriented than RTTC but a major peer on tenant and community stabilization.
• Habitat for Humanity International: Massive global nonprofit addressing affordable homeownership and housing stability. Much larger incumbent in the housing space; overlaps on housing affordability mission but operates through a development model rather than tenant organizing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/ourcityRTTC
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/RightToTheCityAlliance
• Facebookfacebook.com/ourcityrttc
• Instagraminstagram.com/ourcityrttc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/right-to-the-city-alliance

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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