sam rabiyah

Sam is a journalist and multidisciplinary technologist based in NYC. He works at the intersection of investigative reporting, counter-mapping, data visualization, and oral history to make information more actionable to movement-based organizers and the general public

projects

Worst Evictors

Know Your District

Destabilization Map

Eviction Free NY

Queer Wrestlers of Red Hook

Who Owns What

NYC Subway Quiz

Corporatization of NYC Real Estate

Kids Who Lost Parents to COVID, In Their Own Words

"Mom-and-Pop" Landlord Report

One Dollar Lots

Election Simulator

writing

More than 60,000 Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are Now Vacant — and Tenant Advocates Say Landlords Are Holding Them for ‘Ransom’

Tenants Team Up to Target Voucher-Snubbing Landlords

‘Coliving’ Landlords Turned $800 Rent-Stabilized Apartments into $7,000 Suites. Now Tenants Are Pushing Back.

Airbnb’s Sidelined in NYC. That Probably Won’t Stop Illegal Short-Term Rentals.

Apartments Vanish From New York’s Rent Regulation System and Questions Linger About How

In Near-Daily Protests, Tenants Demand a Stop to Rent-Stabilized Apartment Vacancies

Tenants Take Over Bronx and Brooklyn Housing Courts, Protesting Lack of Lawyers

Less Than 10% of Tenants Facing Eviction Actually Got a Lawyer Last Month, Undermining ‘Right to Counsel’ Law

Tenants’ Friday Night Plans: Testifying at Curiously Timed City Eviction Lawyer Hearing

Counter-mapping Evictions in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City

talks