Your Rights as a NYCHA resident
Through our Public Housing Justice Project work, Sophie Cohen and Miles Walser identified four fundamental rights that frequently arise and are crucial for residents to ...
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City Limits: ‘They Assigned Us Far Away’: As Shelter Limit Policy Expands, Some Families Are Already Too Familiar
On Monday, October 16th the City released a policy that limits newly arrived immigrant families to only 60days in shelters. This will only further disrupt ...
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Testimony: New York City Council Oversight Hearing Before the Committee on Public Housing RE: $78.34 Billion: NYCHA’s Physical Needs Assessment
Public Housing Justice Project Director Anna Luft and Staff Attorney Sophie Cohen represented NYLAG at City Hall to testify that NYCHA's Physical Needs Assessment is ...
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After Pressure, NYCHA Publishes Comprehensive Lists of Laws Governing Tenants
After nearly 2 years of advocacy and push from lawyers at NYLAG, the housing authority has published a public document of all its regulations. NYLAG’s ...
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NYLAG Brings “Secret Laws” Governing NYCHA Residents Out from the Shadows
The New York Legal Assistance Group fought for and secured the publication of the nation’s largest public housing authority’s Admissions and Continued Occupancy Plan—and it’s ...
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The City: Housing Agency Ignores Law Requiring Public Disclosure of NYCHA Code Violations
NYLAG’s Jonathan Fox spoke to The City about a demand letter NYLAG sent to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development for its failure to ...
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Testimony: NYLAG Advocates Against NYCHA Significant Amendment
Anna Luft, the supervising attorney in NYLAG’s Tenants’ Rights Unit, critiques NYCHA’s proposed demolition of three buildings and their replacement with a larger development of ...
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City Limits: Vacant NYCHA Units Continue to Increase, With Transfers Complicated by PACT
NYLAG’s Anna Luft spoke to City Limits about the delays and denials public housing tenants face when they request to be transferred to another apartment ...
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Joint Statement Applauding NYC Council Progressive Caucus’ Call for $351 Million in City Budget for ‘Right to Counsel’ so Tenants Facing Eviction Can Stay in Their Homes
"At a time of increasing rents, record level homelessness, and soaring eviction cases, the City must invest in protections that preserve affordable housing and keep ...
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Lack of Funding Continues to Jeopardize Right to Counsel Providers’ Ability to Represent Low-Income Tenants in NYC Housing Court
NYLAG, Legal Aid Society, Legal Services NYC, and others call for $351 million in increased funding in the City’s FY24 budget to save New York’s ...
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