LawHelp.org/NY, the award winning legal information website, announces the expansion and revamping of their Immigration section to make it easier for the immigrant community to find the legal help they need.
Legal Services NYC is a founding member of the New York LawHelp Consortium which provides LawHelp.org/NY.
PropertyShark.com last week reported that Staten Island led
the city in the rate of foreclosures in the third quarter,
and continued to post the highest percentage of foreclosures
per household among the five boroughs. Staten Island Legal Services (a program of Legal Services NYC) represents many of the families facing the potential loss of their homes. An article in the October 3rd issue of the Staten Island Advance takes a closer look.
The October 1st issue of the Village Voice focuses on a couple who in 2006 purchased an 8-unit property in Prospect Heights and promptly began evicting its longtime low-rent tenants in order to create a 20-room remodeled home for themselves. Brent Meltzer, Senior Housing Attorney at South Brooklyn Legal Services (a program of Legal Services NYC), is leading the team representing the family living in the building's lone remaining rent-stabilized unit.
On Friday, September 26th, Governor David Patterson approved the Exempt Income Protection Act, which will protect thousands of low-income New Yorkers from abusive debt-collection practices.
9/13/08- The Legal Aid Society and Legal Services NYC brought
legal action today in state Supreme Court against the New York City Rent
Guidelines Board (RGB).The advocates
seek to strike down what has been characterized as “a poor tax” against
low-income tenants who have lived in an apartment for more than six years and
pay less than $1,000 a month in rent.
Our Citywide Legal Assistance Hotline is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Call 917-661-4500 to speak to an intake officer in any language.