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As evictions spike, the Independent Budget Office highlights ongoing challenges in the city’s program to provide free legal representation to low-income tenants facing eviction.

ByPatrick Spauster 15Comments

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May 2025

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Immigration Justice Opinion

Opinion: Protecting New York’s Most Vulnerable From Federal Attacks

“The Trump administration’s scare tactics have been so ruthless that they have successfully inhibited those in need from seeking social service providers, leaving them further isolated and at-risk.”

ByAmy Leipziger

ByMadeline Garcia Bigelow

ByAbigail Anzalone 1Comment

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Apr 2025

Economy Featured Housing and Homelessness Immigration Politics

What Immigrant Community Advocates Want in This Year’s New York State Budget

Advocates defending the state’s immigrant communities called for several initiatives to be included in the final deal, from expanded tax credits to legal services funding, citing ongoing attacks by the…

ByDaniel Parra 3Comments

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Mar 2025

Government Immigration Justice Opinion

Opinion: It’s Time For NY to Defend Immigrant Rights—Now More Than Ever

“As a result of this order, 26,000 children nationwide will lose their legal counsel overnight, including thousands in New York. It is on us as a state and a city…

BySierra Kraft 4Comments

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Feb 2025

CLARIFY Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: NYC’s Contracting Crisis is Undermining Justice for All

“If the city fails to act this year, it will send an unmistakable message to public defenders and the New Yorkers they serve that their rights to due process, family…

ByJuval O. Scott

ByBabatunde Aremu 0Comments

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Jan 2025

Housing and Homelessness Immigration Justice Opinion

Opinion: Everyone Deserves a Lawyer. Pass the Access to Representation Act

“Providing legal support will likely result in an additional 53,000 New Yorkers being able to remain in their communities. And yet, the government is not required to give them a lawyer,…

ByPriya Vaikuntapathi 0Comments

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Oct 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Immigration

As City Sees Uptick in Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth, Lawmakers Probe ‘Gaps in Services’

As the number of immigrants and asylum seekers arriving in New York City has increased, so has the number of unaccompanied minors, advocates and city officials said during a recent…

ByDaniel Parra 5Comments

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Oct 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness

Evolving Requirements For Tenant Lawyer Funding Met With Protest

Recent clarifications and updates to city funding terms have alleviated some fears among legal service nonprofits while sparking others, as the organizations demand Mayor Eric Adams’ administration stop the contracting…

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Mar 2023

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Justice

At Overdue Hearing, Advocates Push NYC to Fulfill Promise of Housing Court Help for Low-Income Tenants

The city’s landmark Right to Counsel law was the country’s first to guarantee legal representation in housing court to low-income tenants most at risk for eviction. But advocates and providers…

ByAnnie Iezzi

ByFrank Festa 2Comments

Fewer Eligible Tenants Get ‘Right to Counsel’ After Pandemic, Program Expansion: Report