The Christian Activities Council has worked for many years on issues confronting the City of Hartford. Most recently, they have won some victories in getting the City and HUD to hold absentee landlords accountable. Now, they are building a new organization for Faith-Based Community Organizing.

AJ Johnson, left, and Cori Mackey, executive director, are organizers with the Christian Activities Council, a Hartford social justice group that ousted a notorious New York landlord from his North End public housing complex. Mackey is the executive director of the Vine Street organization. (Patrick Raycraft / Hartford Courant)

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