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Right to Counsel Works: Why Won’t the City and State Use it to Stop More Evictions?
Oksana Mironova, Samuel Stein, Iziah Thompson
Summary:
Six years ago, New York City passed the first Right to Counsel law, giving low-income tenants access to free legal representation in housing court. Evictions dropped sharply and the law has been expanded and strengthened since then, but the eviction rate remains too high in New York City despite these gains. Evictions increase the risk of homelessness and long-term housing insecurity, and have an adverse effect on health.
This brief highlights the current state of eviction filings and executed evictions, provides demographic details of tenants facing evictions, and outlines policy fixes for the city’s implementation of the Right to Counsel law.
Issues: Affordable Housing, The Unheard Third
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