News Archive - Right to Counsel NYC Coalition

News Archive

2020:

"With Evictions Looming, Advocates Urge NYC to Accelerate Right to Counsel," Queens Eagle, December 2020
"We Need Real Housing Relief for All Tenants," The Progressive, December 2020
"The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord," NYT, October 2020
"The Pandemic Has Exposed How Broken Our Housing System Is," Gen Medium, August 2020
"State Extends Pandemic Eviction Moratorium but Advocates Say Tenants Remain Under Threat," City Limits, August 2020
"COVID IX: Evictions," Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, June 2020
"As Moratorium Starts to Lift, Preparing for an Eviction Wave," Shelterforce, June 2020
"A Moratorium on Evictions Ends, Leaving Thousands of Tenants Fearful," New York Times, June 2020
"NYC Renters Protest Housing Court Amid Coronavirus," Patch, June 2020
"Staving Off an Eviction Crisis by Expanding New Yorkers' Right to Counsel," Opinion piece by the RTC bill sponsors Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson, Gotham Gazette, June 2020
"With Housing Courts Set To Reopen, New York City Tenants Demand Protections Against Evictions," Forbes, June 2020
"Eviction Friction," Manhattan Times, June 2020
"NYC Prepares for Mass Evictions as Moratorium Nears End," Patch, June 2020
"For Striking NYC Tenants with Notorious Landlords, The Problem Is Not Just COVID 19," The Appeal, May 2020
"Opinion: The Cuomo's New Order Opens the Door to Evictions," City Limits, May 2020
"The Covid-19 Rent Crisis Is Here," Wired, May 2020
"Tenants Demand Rent Cancelation For At Least Four Months," #RentStrike," Bklyner, May 2020
"Thousands of New Yorkers launch rent strike amid coronavirus outbreak," PIX 11, May 2020
"One-Third Of U.S. Tenants Didn’t Pay Their Rents For April, May Could Be Worse," International Business Times, Apr. 2020
Interview with Sundai Bestman, Tenant Leader at the Flatbush Tenant Coalition, WBAI 99.5 FM, April 2020
Interview with Susanna Blankley, Coordinator of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition,WBAI 99.5 FM New York, Apr. 2020
"Coronavirus May Lead To Mass Rent Strikes In NYC: Advocates," Patch, Apr. 2020
"Tenants Advocates Organize Rent Strike In New York Amid Pandemic," WCBS 880, Apr. 2020
"April's Rent Is Due But I've Lost Income. What Are My Options?," Curbed, March 2020
"With Cuomo Silent On Relief, Some Desperate NYC Tenants Say 'There's No Choice, But To Rent Strike," The Gothamist, March 2020
"Rent Freeze Proposed For NYC Tenants Struggling During Pandemic," NY1, March 2020
"Coronavirus rent crisis: ‘Millions of Americans will have trouble paying rent this month’," Curbed, March 2020
"As virus grips nation, advocates move to halt evictions for people of color," Associated Press, March 2020
"Tenant advocates celebrate temporary eviction moratorium," Queens Daily Eagle, March 2020
"Tenants Face Eviction Uncertainty in Time of Coronavirus," NBC News, March 2020
"Courts Offer Chance to Delay Eviction and Other Cases Over Illness," The City, March 2020
"Punitive Measures Worsen the Homelessness Crisis. We Must Guarantee Housing," Truthout, March 2020
"Eviction Drop Fuels Push to Expand Free Housing Help for Low-Income Tenants," The City
"City Must Expand Right to Counsel Program For Tenants," AMNY Op-Ed by DC37
"NYC Council seek additional legislation to expand tenant ‘right to counsel’," AMNY
"Tenant Evictions In NYC Dropped By 15 Percent Last Year," The Gothamist
"Reinforcing RTC," The Bronx Free Press
"Council considers free legal help for more tenants facing eviction," Queens Daily Eagle
"Council looking to expand program that gives tenants free legal help," Crain's New York Business
More New Yorkers could qualify for free housing court lawyers, Curbed NY
"Cohen Backs Bills to Expand Right to Counsel, Which Could Benefit Thousands," Norwood News, Jan. 2020
"NYC’s eviction labyrinth is a cold promise to many New Yorkers," New York Post, Jan. 2020
"Rally and town hall part of campaign to protect against evictions," Bronx Times, Jan. 2020
"Help more New Yorkers fight evictions: The city’s landmark right-to-counsel law must be expanded," NY Daily News, Jan. 2020

2019:

"Coalition urges city to promote tenants’ right to organize," Queens Daily Eagle, Dec. 2019
"City celebrates expansion of program that helps tenants fight eviction," Queens Daily Eagle, Dec. 2019
"The Right to Eviction Counsel Is Gaining Momentum," CityLab, Dec. 2019
"350k More New Yorkers Receiving Free Legal Help To Fight Evictions," NYC Patch, Dec. 2019
BronxNet Interviews Tenant Leader on the Importance of Expanding RTC, Nov. 2019
"Tenants and Right to Counsel NYC hold mock court for bad landlords," The Villager, Nov. 2019
"Evictions are Down but Reigning in NYC's Worst Evictors is Still on Advocates Agenda," CityLimits, Nov. 2019
"Tenant advocates release list of ‘worst’ evictors in the city," AMNY, Oct. 2019
"These NYC Landlords Evict The Most Tenants, Advocates Say," Patch, Oct. 2019
"Courts Need to Adapt to New Rights for Tenants: Report," City Limits, Oct. 2019
"Tenant Advocates Release List of Worst Evictors," Crain's
"Interactive Map Tracks Evictions and the Landlords who File for Them," Gothamist
"These are NYC's Worst Landlords," Fast Company
"Brooklyn Tenants Demand City Strengthen Right to Counsel Law," Brooklyn Eagle
"New Map Charts Bed-Stuy Evictions Block by Block," Patch Brooklyn
"Tenants Rights Group Release List of Brooklyn's Top Evictors," News 12
"Flatbush Among Worst Neighborhoods for Eviction, New Data Shows," Patch Brooklyn
"Jackson Heights Among the Worst Neighborhoods for Eviction, Report," Patch Queens
"The Worst Evictors and the Banks that Love them," ANHD
"Larry Gluck Among the Worst Evictors in Manhattan," Patch NYC
"In Front of Bronx Housing Court, Advocates Bolster Benefits of Right to Counsel," Norwood News
"Evictions are their business practice, tenants organize against Elmhurst landlord," Queens Courier
"Bronx Tenants Evict Their Landlords" Hunts Point Express
"Como acceder servicios gratis de un abogado en un desalojo?" NY, May 2019
"We need to up our game/Necesitamos mejorar nuestro juego," Manhattan Times, April 2019
"New City Council Bill Aims To Educate Low-Income Tenants About Right To Counsel Law," Gothamist, April 2019
"'Someone To Speak For You': Low-Income Tenants Get Lawyers For Housing Court," NPR, April 2019
"Court officials urged to improve tenants' Right to Counsel," AMNY, March 2019
"In New York, Free Legal Help Arrives For Low-Income Tenants In Housing Court," NPR, March 2019
WNYC Interviews Tenant Leader on Right to Counsel Success, March 2019
Metro NY on NYC eviction rates down in 2018, January 2019

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