The purpose of the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards is:

• To permanently preserve land for affordable housing, locally-owned and managed nonprofit organizations and small businesses, community gardens, and green spaces.

• To provide opportunities for nonprofits and small businesses who are invested in the local community, with special consideration to those of low income, to lease properties at affordable rates, on a long-term basis.

• To provide opportunities for people, with special consideration to low income people, to secure housing that is decent and affordable on a long-term basis.

• To promote community stability by combating development without community engagement that has caused a health epidemic and now threatens mass displacement of local residents and small businesses.

• To engage sustainable land use, planning for environmental purposes, and resource conservation by supporting the Principles of Environmental Justice and the Mott Haven Port Morris Waterfront Plan.

• To steward and protect the natural environment, and to promote the ecologically sound use of natural resources, as well as the long term health, safety, and wellbeing of the community and future generations.

• To nurture, celebrate, protect and amplify the cultural and artistic assets, resources, and achievements of the communities within our catchment area in our path towards self-determination. To honor and support the unique local histories, memories, cultural bearers, and the character of neighborhoods within our catchment area.

• To support and amplify efforts everywhere for more just, caring and inclusive land policies.