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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.
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.
Our specialized teams have experience working on nearly every area of law that impacts New Yorkers. Explore the ways we fight on behalf of clients and communities.
Citywide Housing Practice
Homeless Rights Project
Foreclosure Prevention Project
Housing Justice Unit-Group Advocacy
Munonyedi “Mun” Clifford and her team are fighting to ensure low-income New Yorkers have a voice in New York City’s housing court.
After more than a decade of negligence, residents of 2201-05 Davidson Avenue completed the final step of the Third Party Transfer program – removing ownership from Romad Realty, who owed more than $27 million in municipal arrears and was responsible for over 600 open hazardous and immediately hazardous housing code violations.
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.
Success rate in Right to Counsel eviction cases. Keeping clients in their homes or securing time for them to find housing alternatives.
Public housing residents expected to benefit from urgently-needed building repairs through the Public Housing Preservation Trust legislation that LAS helped pass.
Families make up 71% of the homeless shelter population.
The Legal Aid Society changes the lives of our clients with the help of our generous supporters.