Our Story

Midtown South Community Council (MSCC) was founded in 1986 to reduce crime and improve quality of life within New York City’s commercial dense Midtown Manhattan.

We’re particularly concerned about the extreme scarcity and continual loss of housing. The preferred commercial development—particularly the abundance of hotels—crushes many of the smaller tenement buildings and destroys neighborhoods.

The ‘more commercial and less housing’ development policy drives the severe housing shortage. Poverty and homelessness are the symptoms.

Addressing the core economic issues that lead to poverty, rather than policing, is the pathway to a healthier and humane society. That’s why we focus on the three major causes of instability: health, hunger, and housing.

Leadership

We’ve been fighting for a healthier NYC for over 35 years! We're here to share knowledge, ideas, and resources to identify problems and find long-term solutions so communities may thrive.

Meet the Team

Our Partners

Advocates, health professionals, city agencies, elected officials, politicians, community and faith groups, and community boards and members, work with us for cross purposes to highlight, support, and initiate humane policies.

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How We Operate

We’re relentlessly serving the community through programs and advocating for policy change, and we won’t stop until New York City is a fair place for all. And as a 501c(3) non-profit, we rely on the generosity of others to keep our organization running.

Our services to the community are supported by:

  • Individuals who care about social justice and want to give back to the community
  • Like-minded organizations who wish to partner with our mission
  • Foundations, grants, donors, sponsors, and events
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Our Strategic Plan

Rather than providing temporary relief or band-aid solutions, MSCC’s interest is on long-term sustainable measures. We understand poverty is the result of our economic system that produces very little opportunities and poor policies. Material resources, access to education, healthy food, healthcare, and social support systems. We’re tackling these issues head-on.

In the next five years, we hope to:

  • Develop a funding base so that we can focus on our mission
  • Build internal committees to perform the daily, hands-on work such as: Finance and Funding, Healthcare, Urban
  • Farming, Homeless support, Legislative advocacy, and more
  • Create a playbook or manual for ending health, homeless, housing, food crises
  • Continue to educate the public through meetings, forums,podcasts, and social media platforms
  • Build more urban farms (with programs and pipelines of organic food)
  • Host a “one stop shop” of services that helps people secure a pathway from street to home
  • Increase housing availability
  • Change development policies, protect existing rentals and advocate for affordable housing

If you care about your fellow man, then partner with us to end poverty in New York City!

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