The Legal Aid Society sent a letter to New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie urging the Legislature to reconvene session immediately to advance legislative measures that would extend the eviction moratorium indefinitely.

The statewide eviction moratorium is set to expire in exactly one month, leaving hundreds of thousands of families vulnerable to eviction shortly thereafter, according to the Queens Daily Eagle.

“You have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable New Yorkers. This is not the time for Inaction. The legislature has the power to enact a robust and meaningful moratorium on evictions to prevent an unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis that will devastate low-income families already struggling to get by and cost taxpayer dollars,” said Adriene Holder, Attorney-in-Charge of the Civil Practice at The Legal Aid Society.