by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 20, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, COY Housing Recommendation, Home Forward, Housing, News, Right to Counsel
Moderate-income New Yorkers are increasingly becoming the face of eviction in the city, according to a new report by the Community Service Society of New York. The report titled “Preventing Eviction in New York State: What Works and What Doesn’t,” released on...
by Mia Edelstein | May 4, 2023 | News, Right to Counsel
The city should boost funding for a beleaguered initiative to give free legal representation to low-income tenants facing eviction, say four borough presidents. It’s the latest call to increase support for the overburdened program, known as Right to Counsel (RTC). BPs...
by jacob | Feb 2, 2023 | News, Right to Counsel
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine released a report this week outlining 171 locations in the borough he believes can be turned into more than 73,000 new homes. The report, titled “Housing Manhattanites,” seeks to address Manhattan’s housing shortage and answer a...
by jacob | Jun 3, 2022 | News, Right to Counsel
The eviction crisis in NYC housing courts has reached epic proportions. Right now, thousands of New Yorkers are facing the prospect of losing their homes because they do not have the resources to hire a lawyer when up against landlords and their seasoned legal...
by jacob | Jan 14, 2022 | News, Right to Counsel
The New York State moratorium on evictions is set to expire tomorrow – January 15.This would leave many tenants battered by the pandemic vulnerable to losing their homes and exacerbate the current Covid case surge our city is battling. The neighborhoods hit hardest by...
