Adi Talwar
The program is overseen by the Office of the Statewide Coordinating Judge for Family Violence Cases led by Judge Deborah Kaplan.
A pilot program gives women alleging abuse the chance to obtain a temporary order of protection via videoconference, allowing them to avoid the dangers and difficulties inherent in a trip to court. Can the program expand without raising fairness concerns?
Some 24,000 legally exempt daycare providers in New York City are enrolled to be paid through public assistance but are unlicensed and operate under very limited oversight.
Mayor de Blasio says his housing plan will create good jobs as well as affordable places to live. But limited city oversight of subcontractors, who can change their names after legal trouble or bad publicity, hampers the administration’s ability to deliver on that promise. See which contractors are currently subject to special review for labor practices.
A bill to create a right to counsel for many tenants in housing court has the support of most Council members and appears aligned with the mayor’s and speaker’s agendas. So why has there been no action on the idea?
Moves by real estate companies and analyses from city agencies yield a blueprint for where affordable—and not so affordable—units could go in the borough with the city’s lowest rents and highest poverty. City Limits maps them.
More petitions were filed in Bronx Housing Court than in any other borough in 2013 — more than 33 percent of the 248,732 filed citywide, though Bronx residents make up less than 20 percent of the city’s population.
Tenants who fail to save their homes in Bronx Housing Court often end up in shelters, to which the borough contributes more people than any other. As borough aims to build housing for young professionals, will more reforms to housing court stem the tide?
The Bronx is the most affordable borough in the city, but its low-income families also have the hardest time affording the rents they’re charged—which are rising. Bronx Housing Court sees perverse incentives, deadbeat public agencies and more.
Reforms of housing court have done little to change the way business is done there: Via deals negotiated by landlord lawyers in the hallway with tenants who rarely get the help of an attorney or see a judge.
Snapshot of the week 02/05/15
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