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Legal Aid Society sues state over its eviction policies at senior residences (NY)

Thursday, June 01, 2017

Legal Aid Society sues state over its eviction policies at senior residences

"Legal Aid Society lawyers want the state Health Department to change its policies after the agency green-lighted a landlord’s plan to force ailing residents — including a Holocaust survivor — out of a Brooklyn assisted-living facility.

The tangled legal saga began in 2014, when owner Haysha Deitsch secured approval to evict more than 100 residents of 1 Prospect Park West within 90 days as part of a plan to sell the building for millions..."

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