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 evictions—something experts say greatly increases someone’s chances of remaining in their home.
But advocates and providers say it’s been undermined in recent months as the courts schedule eviction cases faster than there are available attorneys to take them.
“When the law was first passed, it worked,” Ruth Riddick, a Flatbush tenant, testified at an overdue city hearing on the initiative recently.
Bill Promises to Make it Easier for New Yorkers to Install Rooftop Solar Panelss City Council Members Thursday introduced a bill to ease regulations for the installation of solar panels, proposing a change to the fire department code that would decrease spacing requirements that impede their use on city rooftops. Read the story.
New York’s First ‘Good Cause’ Eviction Law Falls, Ramping Up Push for Statewide Bill In a six-page decision Thursday, a panel of Third Department judges sided with Albany landlords in finding that state property laws preempt and nullify the city’s 2021 good cause eviction protections. The ruling makes the need for similar protections at the state level more urgent, tenant advocates say. Read the story.
Opinion: Attorneys for Children in New York Are in Crisis “Attorneys are being forced to resign not because they want to leave, but because they cannot provide for their own families if they stay. Offices that were once inundated with job applicants for a small number of vacant positions a decade ago have vacancies that are now taking months to fill—if they can be filled at all.”Read the story.
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El largo camino hacia la justicia para las víctimas del robo de salarios en Nueva York Más de tres años después de que 15 trabajadoras de una lavandería presentaran su primera denuncia ante la fiscal general de Nueva York, Letitia James, las empleadas –todas ellas mujeres inmigrantes latinas– recibieron por fin los primeros cheques de los salarios que se les debían. El caso es emblemático de lo que puede ser un largo camino hacia la justicia para las víctimas del robo de salarios, que los legisladores estiman impacta a unos 2.1 millones de neoyorquinos cada año. Leer el artículo.
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Chief Development Officer, Ghetto Film School
Ghetto Film School (GFS) – an award-winning nonprofit founded in 2000 to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great storytellers – seeks a new Chief Development Officer (CDO) to oversee and drive the strategy of the GFS fundraising program.
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