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Tenants’ Friday Night Plans: Testifying at Curiously Timed City Eviction Lawyer Hearing (The City)
The City, February 21, 2023
Tenants’ Friday Night Plans: Testifying at Curiously Timed City Eviction Lawyer Hearing
Before Right to Counsel passed, a New York City Bar Association consultant found that more than eight in ten tenants with Housing Court would qualify for a free lawyer. Yet the latest analysis of state court figures by the Eviction Crisis Monitor, a project of the Right to Counsel Coalition and the nonprofit Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, finds that nearly half of all tenants who appeared in court at least twice for an eviction case since January of last year did not receive legal representation.
