New York’s Right to Counsel law in 2017 was intended to provide tenants who are under 200% of the federal poverty line with access to counsel in housing court. But when a state eviction moratorium coming out of the pandemic expired back in January amid protests and a backlog of housing court cases, the volume of the city’s … Continue reading As evictions and landlord legal escalation soar in backlogged Bronx Housing Court, tenant representation comes into focus