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“In New York City, through our innovative Right to Counsel program, we have modeled for the nation what it means to protect tenants – and we’re proud of our results, driving down evictions, providing more New Yorkers with lawyers in housing court, and proving that preventing homelessness is possible,” said Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Melanie Hartzog. “This game-changing program has yielded staggering results – protecting families from harassment and providing legal services to all tenants facing eviction, cementing its status as a national model for increasing housing stability and preventing homelessness.” “Building the fairest big city in the country means making sure all tenants can continue to call New York City home,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. To educate New Yorkers about housing instability, raise awareness of right to counsel, and promote the availability of these anti-eviction resources for tenants, which have achieved proven positive results, the City is also launching a public awareness campaign. To date since 2014, the City has provided legal services to more than half-a-million New Yorkers, including approximately 100,000 New Yorkers who utilized this program during the COVID-19 pandemic period in FY21.

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NEW YORK-The de Blasio Administration today released its annual Right to Counsel Progress Report for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21), which found that through the citywide implementation of the Right to Counsel program in 2020, 100 percent of tenants with calendared eviction cases had access to legal services, and 71 percent of tenants who appeared in Housing Court had full representation by attorneys – nearly double the pre-pandemic rate of 38 percent, and an exponential increase over the 1 percent of tenants who had lawyers in 2013.

Overwhelming majority of tenants who have City-funded legal representation are successful in their legal proceedings, 84 percent of households represented by a Right to Counsel lawyer able to remain in their homes. Amid the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the de Blasio Administration continued expanding the historic Right to Counsel program citywide, further increasing representation rate and providing 100,000 New Yorkers with legal services in FY21

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