Housing Jobs in NY
Welcome to the Right to Counsel Jobs Board!
This jobs board is a project of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in partnership with Pro Bono Net and CUNY School of Law.
In August 2017, NYC passed Local Law No. 136., which codifies a right to counsel in housing court eviction defense proceedings for low-income tenants. This legislation, also called “universal access” by the City, is the first of its kind in the nation and one of the greatest advances in access to justice in a generation. It levels the playing field in NYC’s notoriously one-sided Housing Court, treats low-income people with the dignity and respect that they deserve and strengthens tenants’ ability to organize to preserve their homes and communities at a moment where rising rents and gentrification are causing widespread displacement.
This is a very exciting moment to get involved for anyone interested in working to advance and protect the rights of low-income people. The City's rollout of this right requires funding for hundreds of new jobs in housing in NYC over the next few years, many more jobs than we've previously seen. In addition to representing tenants in eviction proceedings in court, the work presents opportunities to work closely with community organizations, to work to change the culture of the courts and to be part of a growing cohort that will be transforming landlord-tenant relations over the coming years. As these jobs are created and posted, we will post them here. Jobs posted on this site are with organizations that receive funding pursuant to this new law.
The passage of this law was made possible in large part by the efforts of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition. To learn more about the ongoing work of Right to Counsel NYC, please visit RightToCounselNYC.org.
If you have a job you'd like us to post, please send the posting/url to rtcjobs@probono.net.
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Staff Attorney - CAMBA Legal Services (Staten Island)
- Created: Apr 07, 2022
CAMBA is a community of staff, volunteers, clients, donors, neighbors and partners who work together to build an inclusive New York City, where all children and adults have access to the resources and supports they need to thrive. We take a comprehensive approach by offering more than 160 integrated programs in: Education & Youth Development, Family Support, Job Training & Employment Support Services, Health, Housing, and Legal Services. We reach more than 65,000 individuals and families each year at our 90 locations, including 10,000 youth. CAMBA serves a diverse cross section of New Yorkers from new mothers in Brownsville to job seekers in the Rockaways. More than half of our clients are immigrants and refugees from around the globe. Over 85% of our families are in living in poverty, reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.
Staff Attorney - CAMBA Legal Services (Brooklyn)
- Created: Apr 07, 2022
CAMBA is a community of staff, volunteers, clients, donors, neighbors and partners who work together to build an inclusive New York City, where all children and adults have access to the resources and supports they need to thrive. We take a comprehensive approach by offering more than 160 integrated programs in: Education & Youth Development, Family Support, Job Training & Employment Support Services, Health, Housing, and Legal Services. We reach more than 65,000 individuals and families each year at our 90 locations, including 10,000 youth. CAMBA serves a diverse cross section of New Yorkers from new mothers in Brownsville to job seekers in the Rockaways. More than half of our clients are immigrants and refugees from around the globe. Over 85% of our families are in living in poverty, reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.
Housing Attorney - Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
- Created: Jan 07, 2022
NMIC’s Housing Attorney works with our highly skilled and experienced, interdisciplinary legal team. This position requires advocacy in housing matters including representation in Bronx & Manhattan Housing Courts, administrative hearings, benefits advocacy, and supreme court and appellate practice with proven approaches to affordable housing retention, community stabilization and repair and maintenance issues.
Staff Attorneys, Housing Rights - Mobilization for Justice
- Created: Jan 07, 2022
Mobilization for Justice (MFJ), a non-profit legal services organization that provides a wide range of free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, is seeking two or more attorneys to further MFJ’s efforts to preserve decent and affordable housing for low-income tenants, including families and single adults, through eviction defense, HP proceedings, and affirmative litigation. The attorneys will be part of a team that represents tenants in Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn Housing Court, state Supreme Court, federal court, and administrative proceedings.
Staff Attorney Posting – December 2021
- Created: Dec 17, 2021
Housing Conservation Coordinators, Inc. (HCC) is seeking a Staff Attorney. HCC is a 48 year old community-based, not-for-profit legal services agency anchored in the Hell’s Kitchen/Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan’s west side. HCC’s programs — legal services, tenant/community organizing and weatherization assistance — advance its mission to promote social and economic justice and fight for the rights of poor, low-income, and working individuals and families.
Bilingual Staff Attorneys, Tenants’ Rights Unit - New York Legal Assistance Group
- Created: Jun 03, 2021
As NYC’s Universal Access initiative fully expands the right to counsel to all New Yorkers facing eviction in communities burdened by systemic socioeconomic barriers, NYLAG’s Tenants’ Rights Unit (“TRU”) has multiple Staff Attorney positions available for bilingual attorneys who speak Spanish and/or another prevalent language. There are available positions on each of TRU’s Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens teams for either a July 2021 or September 2021 start date.
Queens Supervising Attorney, Tenants’ Rights Unit - New York Legal Assistance Group
- Created: Jun 03, 2021
As NYC’s Universal Access initiative continues to expand the right to counsel to all New Yorkers facing eviction in communities burdened by systemic socioeconomic barriers, NYLAG’s Tenants’ Rights Unit (“TRU”) has an exciting Supervising Attorney position in Queens to join two other Queens supervisors.
Bilingual Paralegals, Tenants’ Rights Unit - New York Legal Assistance Group
- Created: Jun 03, 2021
As NYC’s Universal Access initiative fully expands the right to counsel to all New Yorkers facing eviction, NYLAG’s Tenants’ Rights Unit (TRU) has multiple openings for bilingual paralegals who speak Spanish and/or another prevalent language, such as Bengali, French, Russian, Mandarin, or Haitian Creole. There are positions available on each of TRU’s Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens teams for a start date in July 2021.
Staff Attorney - Housing Conservation Coordinators, Inc. (HCC)
- Created: Mar 03, 2021
The staff attorneys will work with organizers, individual tenants and groups of tenants to oppose eviction proceedings, obtain necessary repairs, upgrade building services, stop landlord harassment, resolve building-wide complaints and assert the rights of tenants by representing tenants and tenant associations in New York courts and administrative proceedings. The staff attorneys will also disseminate information about tenants’ rights, advocate for tenants with landlords and landlord attorneys and advocate for tenants to obtain other social services as necessary. The staff attorneys may periodically teach classes/trainings and conduct workshops related to housing law or other HCC practice areas.
Supervising Attorney - Housing Conservation Coordinators (HCC)
- Created: Mar 03, 2021
Housing Conservation Coordinators (HCC) seeks a Supervising Attorney to join a dedicated team of staff attorneys and tenant organizers working to preserve affordable housing on Manhattan’s West side.
Staff Attorney – Housing Rights, Mobilization for Justice
- Created: Jan 15, 2021
Mobilization for Justice (MFJ), a non-profit legal services organization that provides a wide range of free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, is seeking a staff attorney tor further MFJ’s efforts to preserve decent and affordable housing for low-income tenants, including families and single adults, through eviction defense, HP proceedings, and affirmative litigation. The attorney will be part of a team that represents tenants in Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan Housing Court, state Supreme Court, federal court, and administrative proceedings.
Staff Attorney, Goddard Riverside Community Center
- Created: Jan 15, 2021
The Goddard Riverside Law Project provides free legal services and organizing support to low-income individuals, families, and groups of tenants in the west side of Manhattan. Our mission is to empower tenants and preserve affordable housing through advocacy, legal representation, relationship building, and grassroots education. We aim to protect tenants’ rights and hold bad actors accountable while working towards establishing pro-tenant laws and sound housing policy through city and statewide coalition work. To these ends, we integrate tenant voices and collaborate with the community, particularly SRO tenants and marginalized populations.
Supervising Attorney - Housing, Urban Justice Center
- Created: Jan 15, 2021
The Safety Net Project (SNP) is one of thirteen independent projects at the Urban Justice Center. SNP provides direct legal and social services in the areas of public benefits access, homelessness, and tenant rights, in addition to engaging in policy advocacy and community organizing led by impacted community members (the Safety Net Activists). SNP is one of NYC’s Right to Counsel providers representing tenants facing eviction and is also active in various grassroots organizing campaigns fighting for systemic change.
Supervising Attorney, Housing - Safety Net Project - Urban Justice Center
- Created: Nov 19, 2020
SNP seeks applicants for a Supervising Attorney position. SNP’s Supervising Attorneys provide supervision and support to SNP’s Staff Attorneys and Paralegals in its high-volume landlord/tenant practice, while also maintaining a reduced caseload. SNP’s housing practice includes providing direct legal assistance and representation to tenants in eviction prevention, plus some affirmative litigation and group representation. SNP’s Supervising Attorneys also work closely with the other housing supervisors to collectively manage SNP’s high-volume housing litigation practice.
Housing Staff Attorney, Safety Net Project - Urban Justice Center
- Created: Nov 19, 2020
SNP seeks applicants for multiple Housing Staff Attorney positions. SNP’s Staff Attorneys provide direct legal representation to tenants in landlord-tenant cases, including civil proceedings in NYC Housing Court, affirmative litigation, and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) administrative hearings and appeals. We are seeking attorneys who are looking for a creative and non-traditional environment, working with passionate and dedicated professionals in the fight against gentrification, displacement, and racist housing systems.
Equitable Neighborhoods Staff Attorney - TakeRoot Justice
- Created: Nov 10, 2020
TakeRoot Justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in New York City to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression. We are seeking a staff attorney to help provide legal support to our partners and clients in a wide variety of subject-matter areas, including land-use law, environmental law, nonprofit organizations, and commercial leasing for small businesses. Our work changes as our partners’ needs change.
Staff Attorney – Housing Rights - Mobilization for Justice
- Created: Nov 10, 2020
Mobilization for Justice, a non-profit legal services organization that provides a wide range of free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, is seeking several 2021 law graduates to further MFJ’s efforts to prevent homelessness, and preserve decent, affordable housing for low income tenants, including families and single adults, through eviction defense, HP proceedings and affirmative litigation. The law graduates will join a team that represents tenants in Bronx Housing Court, state Supreme Court, and administrative proceedings; works in coalition with advocacy groups city- and state-wide on policy issues; analyzes and provides testimony on proposed housing-related legislation; works with tenant groups and community organizations, including conducting trainings; and communicates regularly with NY state and city elected officials and the media. The law graduates will work at Mobilization for Justice’s Bronx office following the July 2021 bar examination.
Staff Attorney - Goddard Riverside Community Center
- Created: Nov 10, 2020
The Goddard Riverside Law Project provides free legal services and organizing support to low-income individuals, families, and groups of tenants in the west side of Manhattan. Our mission is to empower tenants and preserve affordable housing through advocacy, legal representation, relationship building, and grassroots education. We aim to protect tenants’ rights and hold bad actors accountable while working towards establishing pro-tenant laws and sound housing policy through city and statewide coalition work. To these ends, we integrate tenant voices and collaborate with the community, particularly SRO tenants and marginalized populations.
Staff Attorney, Preserving Affordable Housing Program - Brooklyn A
- Created: Nov 10, 2020
Brooklyn A seeks an attorney to join its Preserving Affordable Housing Program who will represent low-income tenants in Brooklyn facing eviction in court and before administrative agencies and bringing affirmative litigation.
Deputy Director-Attorney, Preserving Affordable Housing Program - Brooklyn A
- Created: Nov 10, 2020
Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (Brooklyn A) seeks a Deputy Director/Attorney to join its Preserving Affordable Housing Program who will represent low-income tenants in Brooklyn facing eviction in court and before administrative agencies and bringing affirmative litigation.