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Legal Services NYC Bargaining Updates
Below are updates on contract negotiations between Legal Services NYC and LSSA 2320 (Legal Services Staff Association) beginning October 8, 2024 to bargain a successor agreement to the 2021-2024 agreement. October 8, 2024 In advance of this session, the first in…
Statement from the Homeowner Protection Coalition on Governor Hochul’s 2025 State of the State Address
New York, NY – Homeownership is critical to building equity, stabilizing neighborhoods and strengthening communities across New York State and Governor Hochul has made important commitments to support homeowners. But more is needed to address the scale of our affordability crisis…
Legal Services NYC Bargaining Updates
Below are updates on contract negotiations between Legal Services NYC and LSSA 2320 (Legal Services Staff Association) beginning October 8, 2024 to bargain a successor agreement to the 2021-2024 agreement. October 8, 2024 In advance of this session, the first in…
In Response to Mayor Eric Adams’ State of the City Address, New York’s Leading Civil Legal Service Providers Call on City Hall to Correct City’s Fraught Contract and Payment Process
Longstanding Payment Issues Continue to Jeopardize New Yorkers’ Access to Critical Housing and Immigration Representation (NEW YORK, NY) – Legal Services NYC, The Legal Aid Society, The Bronx Defenders, New York Legal Assistance Group, The Children’s Law Center, Lawyers For Children,…
Homeowner Protection Program (HOPP) Releases Statement in Response to Gov. Hochul’s Veto of Program’s Codification Bill
Below is a statement from the Homeowner Protection Program (HOPP) in response to Governor Kathy Hochul’s veto of SS7297A/A7636A, a bill sponsored by State Sen. Brian Kavanagh and Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, that would have enshrined HOPP into state law: “The 92…
New Report: NYCHA Traps Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Danger by Delaying Emergency Transfers
New York, NY – NYCHA is putting survivors of gender-based violence lives at risk by making them wait years for emergency transfers, trapping them and their children in dangerous environments or forcing them into homeless shelters to wait for a transfer,…
Legal Services NYC Issues Statement After Mayor Eric Adams Weighs in on City’s Chronic Payment Delays, Putting Nonprofits Near Collapse and New Yorkers at Risk
New York, NY – Today at a press conference, Mayor Adams was asked what he would say to nonprofits who are owed millions of dollars in city contract payments that the city is now five months past due in paying. The mayor responded that…
Legal Services NYC’s Jenna Coudin Wins NLADA New Leaders in Advocacy Award
Legal Services NYC’s Jenna Coudin, a supervising attorney in its Manhattan office, won the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s (NLADA) prestigious New Leaders in Advocacy Award which recognizes rising attorneys who demonstrate extraordinary leadership and unwavering commitment early in their…
Legal Services NYC Helps Brooklyn Homeowner Regain Title to His Home, End Decade-Long Deed Theft Saga
NEW YORK, NY — The wide-ranging deed theft perpetrated by the notorious Launch Development firm and its owner, Herzel Meiri, finally came to a close recently with an unqualified victory for a homeowner, Vincent Holmes, who after nearly a decade, finally…
NYC’s Leading Legal Service Providers Urge City to Correct Contract Payment Issues that Jeopardize Critical Housing and Immigration Representation for New Yorkers in Need
(NEW YORK, NY) – Legal Services NYC, The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, NMIC, the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), CAMBA Legal Services, Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS), the Human Services Council, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, The…
Legal Services NYC, Legal Aid, and Selendy Gay Secure SCOTUS Order in Final Two Rent Stabilization Law Cases
(NEW YORK, NY) – Legal Services NYC, The Legal Aid Society, and Selendy Gay PLLC, along with the NY Attorney General’s office, secured a U.S. Supreme Court order which denies the landlords’ petitions for certiorari in Building and Realty Institute Of…
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