The Legal Aid Society has filed a lawsuit on behalf of tenants at River Park Towers in the Bronx, challenging a years-long pattern of wrongful eviction filings against low-income residents living in federally subsidized affordable housing by the complex’s owners.

River Park Towers filed more than 460 eviction proceedings against tenants at the 1,654-unit complex since July 2024, alleging that tenants failed to complete annual income recertifications required under the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.

Tenants repeatedly submitted the required paperwork, but management failed to properly process or maintain records, then initiated eviction proceedings.

The lawsuit demands River Park Towers implement a lawful and functional recertification system, halt pending and future eviction proceedings, and comply with state and federal affordable housing regulations.

The plaintiffs include Jill Grant, a paraprofessional with the New York City Department of Education, who has lived at River Park Towers for more than 50 years. She faced eviction proceedings for the first time in her life despite repeatedly providing recertification documents and receiving written confirmation from management that she was in compliance.

“The tenants at River Park Towers have spent years living under the constant threat of losing their homes because of systemic failures entirely outside of their control,” said Russell Crane, an attorney in the Housing Justice Unit – Group Advocacy at Legal Aid. “These are longtime residents, seniors, people with disabilities, and working families who did everything asked of them, only to be dragged into housing court again and again over paperwork issues created by management itself.”