Carroll Gardens Association (CGA) is an affordable housing and economic development grassroots organization that has been working in Southwest Brooklyn (Red Hook, Columbia Waterfront, and the surrounding area) since 1971. CGA organizes with tenants and domestic workers to advocate for permanent affordable housing, cooperative economics, and immigrant worker rights. We center leadership development, political education, and mutual aid in our organizing and program design that is rooted in the belief that residents and workers are the experts in the problems that face them.