NYLAG’s Associate Director of Tenants’ Rights, Ed Campanelli provided written and verbal testimony at the annual public hearing on the NYC Office of Civil Justice’s program to provide Universal Access to Legal Services for Tenant’s Facing Eviction. He argued that there’s an urgent need to expand universal access/right to counsel, improving communications between HRA and tenants, and improving referral mechanisms that connect attorneys with tenants at risk of eviction at the earliest stage.
NY1: Long Lines and Hearing Delays Reflect a Broken Immigration System for Asylum Seekers
NYLAG’s Jodi Ziesemer spoke to NY1 about how asylum seekers are being impacted by delays and dysfunction in the immigration system, including unfair deportation orders and court appointments being scheduled as far as a decade from now.