New York, NY (May 2,2024)– Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), the largest provider of free civil legal services in the country, has named Shervon M. Small, Esq. as its next Executive Director, effective June 17, 2024. The LSNYC Search Committee, comprised of board and staff, led a rigorous national search in partnership with Koya Partners/Diversified Search Group, a search firm that specializes in placing CEOs in mission-driven roles.

New York, NY (April 22, 2024) – Over the weekend, Governor Hochul released an executive budget containing a housing deal that adds new protections to market rate tenants and incentives for new affordable housing, yet at the same time, rolls back tenant protections in the 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA) and includes severely weakened Good Cause Eviction measures.

ALBANY, NY (April 19, 2024) - Today, advocates and housing counselors from across the state celebrated the funding of Homeowner Protection Program (HOPP), which provides free housing counseling and legal services to New York homeowners at risk of foreclosure, in the FY25 state budget but expressed disappointment and concern over the sweeping of $40 million from the state’s Interest on Lawyer Account (IOLA) to fund HOPP.

BRONX, NY (April 10, 2024) - On Monday, rent-stabilized tenants residing at 1187 Anderson Avenue, 1195 Anderson Avenue and 1230 Woodycrest Avenue filed a new contempt motion against their landlord over its failure to make agreed-upon repairs.

NEW YORK, NY (March 14, 2024) - Today nearly 40 tenants across at five buildings in East Harlem (112, 118, 122, 124, and 126 East 103rd Street) announced a lawsuit filed by The Legal Aid Society and Legal Services NYC against their landlord, Isaac Kaissirer and his firm Emerald Equities, alleging that the troubled real estate firm has stolen tens of thousands of dollars worth of security deposits and unlawfully commingled them with the landlord’s own operating funds — something the firm has done before.