Abstract
In the tradition of community organizing, ECCO leaders asked the pivotal question, “how do we build power for this campaign?” Part of the answer to that question was identifying new stakeholders who would increase ECCO’s power base and exploring how that cohort of stakeholders might be organized and mobilized to advance the campaign. ECCO immigrant leaders identified “small immigrant landlords” as a potential group of stakeholders who might share common interests with the goals of ECCO’s housing rights campaign and potentially be open to joining ECCO’s work. This was a novel idea because ECCO’s housing rights campaign in Lynn is composed almost exclusively, of tenants. To explore this question, ECCO decided to conduct a Participatory Action Research project (PAR) and assembled a team of immigrant women of color leaders between December 2022 - January 2023. The research began in February 2023. This research was funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation administered through the Urban Institute.