Recent Housing Victory by BSCLS

October 2010: A client will be able to stay in her home due to a notable recent victory by Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services Housing Unit Staff Attorney Elizabeth Bohnett. Elizabeth successfully argued for a Housing Court Judge to vacate a pro se
stipulation in which the tenant had agreed to pay more than $4,000 of
rent that she did not owe.

Elizabeth based her argument on the
landlord's failure to comply with Housing and Urban Development
Handbook notice requirements.  The tenant will be able to keep her
apartment, and the decision itself has helped to develop the law on
important issues related to the Section 8 program that will be useful
to other tenants and their lawyers. The full opinion in Albany
Crossings v. Cole can be accessed here (subscription only).