Bronx, NY  – Today, Bronx Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, and Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City, Inc., (NHS-NYC) in partnership with the Office of the New York State Attorney General (OAG), the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) and the Center for New York City’s Neighborhoods (CNYCN), announced the “Anti-Displacement Homeowner Help Desk Project,” a new initiative that aims to help Bronx residents keep their homes and avoid the predicted wave of foreclosures, deed thefts, and scams following Covid-19.

STATEN ISLAND, NY – Today, Legal Services NYC announces that Nadia K. Hernandez will begin as the new Project Director of Staten Island Legal Services, a program of Legal Services NYC. She is the first Latinx director of Staten Island Legal Services and the first Latinx woman to sit on Legal Services NYC’s senior leadership team.

Bronx, NY - Bronx, N.Y. 10456 – Today, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, tenants on rent strike at 1210 Clay Avenue rallied in front of their building to demand the repair of hazardous building conditions, an end to tenant harassment, and appropriate relocation assistance for tenants displaced by an April 11th fire — the product of faulty electrical wiring that tenants previously asked the landlord to fix.

New York, NY -  The New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of NYC today sued the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) for discriminating on the basis of gender identity against nonbinary New York residents.