Clients of the Legal Aid Society are featured in a new piece in today’s Queens Daily Eagle portraying the plight of some 14,000 New York City households that are at risk of losing their homes as soon as state and federal eviction moratoriums expire.

Due to their being involved in a holdover case, Carol and Harold Thompson – whose family have occupied their South Jamaica home for generations – are not protected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recently-implemented eviction pause.

The Legal Aid Society and housing advocates throughout New York continue to demand bold action from Governor Andrew Cuomo as well as state legislators and warn of the myriad consequences that inaction will have if tens of thousands of New Yorkers like the Thompsons are thrown onto the street in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s concerning that we may not be able to stop an eviction at a time when there is a pandemic,” said Legal Aid attorney Brooke Drew, who is representing the Thompsons. “This is why we need the governor to issue another executive order or the legislature to do something.”