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City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court
(Separate Website)
The City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court, Inc. is a non-profit coalition that was established in 1981 to address the systemic challenges to justice in New York City's Housing Court. Among other things, the organization has set up information tables in each borough's Housing Court with staff and volunteers to provide information to tenants.
-Please note that City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court has installed a new phone system. The new hotline number is: (212) 962-4795. The Hotline provides information about housing court and housing court cases and provides referrals to charities that can help people pay rent arrears.
Community Service Society - Eviction Prevention Program
(Separate Website)
This organization provides information, referrals and advocacy for tenants and homeowners threatened with homelessness. They help apply for a "one-shot deal" or ongoing public assistance to pay rent arrears and advise all applicants on eligibility for "Jiggetts" relief. Clients receive referrals to appropriate legal services, budget and credit counseling, or protective services for adults. Their staff follows up until the eviction or foreclosure has stopped and rent or mortgage arrears are paid.
Division of Code Enforcement
(Separate Website)
The job of HPD's Division of Code Enforcement is to promote quality housing and livable neighborhoods in New York City. Their offices accepts complaints against owners of privately-owned buildings that are failing to keep their apartments in habitable condition and provide tenants with heat during the winter heat season (October 1 through May 31) and hot water 365 days a year. This office also has an emergency repair program and other programs related to housing safety.
By: New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)
Housing Conservation Coordinators
(Separate Website)
HCC has provided tenant organizing services since 1972 by: helping tenants form tenant associations, get repairs, upgrade building services, stop landlord harassment, begin rent strikes and bring tenant actions in Housing Court. HCC also helps tenants purchase their building as limited-equity cooperatives, and assists tenant groups fight against owners opting out of subsidized programs, such as Project-Based Section 8 and Mitchell Lama buildings.
Metropolitan Council on Housing
(Separate Website)
Met Council is a city-wide membership tenant organization. It publishes a monthly newsletter for tenants in English and Spanish and provides alerts and other informations for tenants in New York City.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
(Separate Website)
Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Inc. is a community-based financial counseling and economic assistance organization serving homeowners, homebuyers, tenants, landlords and merchants.
**Please Note that the tenant program covers the following zip codes: 11232, 11220; and the homeownership program focuses on 11220, 11232 but is open to all of NYC.
New Destiny Housing Corp.'s Housing Link Online
(Separate Website)
This site can help survivor's of domestic violence learn about different options for safe and affordable housing in New York City.
New York Urban League - Fair Housing Counseling Project
(Separate Website)
The New York Urban League Fair Housing Counseling Program provides information and assistance to community residents living in Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. Services include information and counseling on housing court procedures, unfair housing practices and housing discrimination. Fair Housing Counselors assist residents through mediation services between landlords and tenants and provide emergency housing services such as housing shelter referrals and assistance with pending evictions.
Arab American Family Support Center
(Separate Website)
The Arab American Family Support address the many social and economic barriers that face Arab-Americans by providing counseling, crisis intervention, emergency services, advocacy, translation, interpretation, services to domestic violence victims, parenting education, language classes, citizenship preparation, and information/referral services for health, education, housing, legal immigration, employment, job-training, and child-care needs.
Human Services Directory for Asian Americans
(Separate Website)
Human Services for Asian Americans is a directory of organizations that provide health and human services to the Asian American community in the New York metropolitan area.
Polish and Slavic Center - Extended Social Services Program
(Separate Website)
The Polish and Slavic Center (PSC) is a non-profit social and cultural services organization that primarily serves the Polish-American and Slavic-American community of New York and New Jersey. The assistance rendered ranges from housing and protective services to health-related and Information and referral services. Typical services included under the category of "Information and Referral" include assisting the client with a range of government entitlement programs as well as personal services request, such as: preparing applications and forms for medicaid; medicare; rent exemption; public welfare; social security; SSI; housing related services; health related services; protective services for adults and translations.
311 Health & Human Services Provider Directory
(Separate Website)
Use this directory to search for community based organizations in your area.
By: NYC.gov
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Chhaya Community Development Corporation
(Separate Website)
Chhaya's mission is to address and advocate for the housing and community development needs of South Asian American communities in New York City regardless of class, caste, country of origin, or religious affiliation.
By: LawHelp NY
Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center Inc.
(Separate Website)
The Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center, Inc. is a non profit organization committed to empower the community by promoting collective action to demanding social justice and better opportunities for immigrants, low income residents and people of color in West Harlem, a community of traditionally neglected minority population. The center works in the areas of family and domestic violence, housing and environmental justice, education, art, youth issues, and other activities that provide opportunities for community leadership.
By: Lawhelp NY
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Spanish / Español
The Partnership for the Homeless
(Separate Website)
The Partnership for the Homeless provides social and legal services to individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing.
By: LawHelp NY
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