In 2017, over two years prior to the onset of the pandemic, New York City passed the Right to Counsel law, which guarantees legal representation for low-income tenants facing eviction. With the removal of all COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the eviction moratorium at the beginning of 2022, a tidal wave of eviction actions was unleashed, greatly increasing the Legal Aid caseload, without any commensurate increase in staff or resources.
“We worked our asses off and we are all struggling with making ends meet. We’re asking for funding fairness and for parity with our colleagues across the aisle who at many different steps are making substantially more than us.”
Here's an interesting book that gets at the root of this type of labor issue--idealism in the non-profit sector: Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back (2021).
It was sufficiently of historic note for the landmarks commission to designate it and its neighbors as protected landmarks--it's within the greater Greenwich Village historic neighborhood.
The other is how the neighboring properties (and people who might live in them) are being affected by what could have been shoddy work.
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Reply to 1,000 Legal Aid workers in New York City hold walkout in contract struggle by DrogDrill
Some key quotes:
In 2017, over two years prior to the onset of the pandemic, New York City passed the Right to Counsel law, which guarantees legal representation for low-income tenants facing eviction. With the removal of all COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the eviction moratorium at the beginning of 2022, a tidal wave of eviction actions was unleashed, greatly increasing the Legal Aid caseload, without any commensurate increase in staff or resources.
“We worked our asses off and we are all struggling with making ends meet. We’re asking for funding fairness and for parity with our colleagues across the aisle who at many different steps are making substantially more than us.”
Here's an interesting book that gets at the root of this type of labor issue--idealism in the non-profit sector: Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back (2021).