{"id":29328,"date":"2016-09-24T15:45:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T19:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=29328"},"modified":"2016-09-24T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T19:45:49","slug":"a-right-to-a-lawyer-to-save-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=29328","title":{"rendered":"“A Right to a Lawyer to Save Your Home”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A smart new bill would make New York City the first in the country to provide lawyers for all lower-income tenants facing eviction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: A Right to a Lawyer to Save Your Home – The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Terrific news and especially meaningful to me, given my long (and eventually successful) pro se<\/em> experience in Housing Court. (To see what I’ve written about it, use my search box and type in “Housing Court.” There are too many posts for me to link here.)<\/p>\n

Although I represented myself in Housing Court, I was a plaintiff–I filed a complaint against my co-op for failure to maintain the building. I was not a respondent, a tenant who is being dragged into Housing Court by a landlord threatening to evict, a much more dire situation than mine. If I had lost my case, I would still own and be living in my co-op apartment.<\/p>\n

When I spent time in Housing Court, I saw tenants fighting landlords’ eviction notices and saw that the marvelous Department of Housing Preservation and Development <\/a>lawyers–who are stationed in the court to represent New York City’s buildings–could not really help tenants with eviction notices.<\/p>\n

This new bill will mean there will<\/em> be lawyers in Housing Court to help tenants pro bono.<\/em>\u00a0 Personally, I think that all needy defendants, criminal and<\/em> civil, should be given legal representation, an expansion of Gideon v. Wainwright<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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