Amber Marshall
@Amber_LM
Tenant attorney | views are my own 🖖🏼 she/her
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Victory! 👏 LAS Secures Ruling to Force Implementation of Housing Voucher Reform. “Today’s unanimous appellate decision is a critical moment for thousands of New Yorkers struggling with housing insecurity.” Robert Desir, attorney at Legal Aid. legalaidnyc.org/news/ruling-fo…
With homelessness at record highs, City Limits asked the candidates where they stand on shelters and housing vouchers, street and subway homelessness, and supportive housing. via @patrickspauster: bit.ly/4jMTNmY
“This guidance is deeply alarming and will likely deter vulnerable individuals and families with children from entering the local shelter system due to fear of detention and deportation,” Kathryn Kliff, staff attorney, LAS. nydailynews.com/2025/02/06/ada…
The longer the City delays payments to nonprofits, the more New Yorkers will fall through the cracks of a weakened safety net. “The city’s dysfunctional contracting process needs a comprehensive overhaul,” Twyla Carter, CEO/Attorney-in-Chief, LAS. More: thecity.nyc/2024/11/26/non…
.@weunlocknyc & CSS just released a report examining discrimination against voucher holders in NYC's housing market. +700 cases highlight how landlords and brokers adapt their tactics to evade enforcement, worsening homelessness & segregation. Read more cssny.org/news/entry/cor…
Institutional investors now own more than 35% of the rental housing stock in the United States, according to @Reuters.
❗️The Supreme Court just ruled to make it easier to jail or fine unhoused people for sleeping outside, even when adequate shelter or housing isn’t available. This will only make homelessness worse. Housing - not tickets, jail, or fines - ends homelessness.
More than *100,000 households* have already applied for the Section 8 waiting list this morning The application portal has only been open for 10 hours, most of those pre-dawn The stat comes from NYCHA, which administers the largest Section 8 program in NYC
NYC is now accepting new Section 8 applications for the first time in 15 years Applicants have 6 days to get their submissions in (the portal closes on Sunday, just before midnight) Let me know how it goes! gothamist.com/news/nyc-is-se…
As of today, you can officially apply to get on the Section 8 waitlist. If you've been navigating the site, how's it going? citylimits.org/2024/05/22/nyc…
HAPPENING TODAY: The tenants of 2201-05 Davison Ave. in the Bronx have lived with numerous health and safety violations for far too long. Today, LAS, @CMPiSanchez, and @northwestbronx are joining them to announce a lawsuit seeking an end to decades of neglect and harassment.
glad to see my story from closing day at the Mount Eden HRA benefits office in today's @politicony playbook. There are now just two walk-in SNAP centers in the Bronx: citylimits.org/2024/02/22/sce…
NEW: Tenants of a collapsed Bronx apartment building are suing the landlord for needed repairs and an end to what they call years-long harassment Several who returned say their units were reconfigured & ransacked, with rats running wild @Gothamist gothamist.com/news/tenants-i…
NOW: LAS is in the Bronx to announce our lawsuit against the City and landlord of the partially collapsed 1915 Billingsley Terrace. Tenants need repairs to over 133 “immediately hazardous” housing violations. Read more: gothamist.com/news/tenants-i…
New York City residents overwhelmingly say they support the right-to-shelter mandate requiring the city to provide shelter to anyone in need, according to a new poll. gothamist.com/news/nearly-80…
Evictions Are a Racial Justice Crisis: Good Cause Protection New York #goodcause naacpldf.org/evictions-raci…
NEW: Some tenants are returning to their apartments after a partial Bronx building collapse — but first they’re being told to sign docs waiving a rent reduction, dropping a lawsuit and copping to illegal alterations they say they didn’t do For @Gothamist gothamist.com/news/after-bro…
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After Bronx building collapse, tenants face new hurdles to returning home
Tenants returning to their apartments after a partial building collapse said they faced pressure to waive a rent reduction, drop an active lawsuit and cop to illegal alterations in exchange for their...
No one should forced to sleep on city streets, exposed to the elements, at risk of life and limb. Join us tomorrow in support of New York's long-standing and life-saving Right to Shelter. More: tinyurl.com/rally4shelter.
Solidarity forever with the 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente! When you win this fight, the entire working class will win as well. @seiu-uhw jacobin.com/2023/10/health…
Repugnant. This is the City’s most far-reaching attempt to retreat on its legal and moral obligation to provide shelter for individuals without homes since the #RightToShelter was established in 1981. Joint statement w/@NYHomeless: legalaidnyc.org/wp-content/upl…
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