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Preventing Homelessness & Saving Homes
We work to preserve homes, prevent eviction and displacement by providing critical legal services. Through our direct representation and law reform efforts, we promote healthy, stable, affordable housing for our clients and remove the systemic barriers that keep people trapped in cycles of homelessness.
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Every day, in courthouses and communities across the city, we advocate for the rights of all New Yorkers. Learn more about the services we provide.
A Day in the Life
Preventing Evictions in the Citywide Housing Justice Practice
Munonyedi “Mun” Clifford and her team are fighting to ensure low-income New Yorkers have a voice in New York City’s housing court.
Munonyedi “Mun” Clifford
Our Impact
LAS Sues to Enforce Housing Voucher Reform, Expansion
The Legal Aid Society has filed a class action lawsuit against Mayor Adams and the City to compel the Administration to fully implement recently enacted laws that reform and expand the City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (CityFHEPS) program, a local housing voucher for New Yorkers on the brink of or experiencing homelessness.
By the Numbers
Our work seeks to shift the power dynamic, ensuring New Yorkers have access to shelter and affordable housing, and that tenants have the resources they need to advocate for their rights.
97%
Success rate in Right to Counsel eviction cases. Keeping clients in their homes or securing time for them to find housing alternatives.
75K+
Public housing residents expected to benefit from urgently-needed building repairs through the Public Housing Preservation Trust legislation that LAS helped pass.
71%
Families make up 71% of the homeless shelter population.
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The Legal Aid Society changes the lives of our clients with the help of our generous supporters.