PA'LANTE Harlem organizes and empowers New York City residents of Harlem and upper Manhattan to hold negligent landlords accountable for unsafe living conditions through community advocacy, outreach, organizing effective tenant associations, providing long-term technical assistance, and connecting individuals and tenant groups to free or reduced rate legal services and housing benefits.

PA'LANTE's goal is to end tenant exploitation, in order to enable low-income community residents to remain in their homes and to ensure that those homes are safe and affordable.

In 2011, PA'LANTE added a new program to assist New York City's residents living in HDFCs (cooperatives) and tenants enrolled in HPD's Tenant Interim Lease (TIL) Program.