Queens Legal Services (QLS) seeks a Staff Attorney to join our Housing Rights Project in a vibrant community-based civil legal advocacy organization in Queens. 

The staff attorney will join a vibrant practice in the heart of Southeast Queens, serving low-income tenants throughout the borough. We are looking for candidates who are excited to work in a fast-paced environment on housing-related matters, including landlord/tenant actions, eviction defense and affirmative litigation on behalf of tenants. The attorney will be expected to work closely with community-based organizations and conduct weekly, evening and weekend outreach and off-site intake with our partners.

Brooklyn Legal Services (“BLS”) seeks an experienced housing attorney to direct its Tenant Rights Coalition.

Brooklyn Legal Services, part of Legal Services NYC, provides high-quality, innovative representation to address the pressing legal needs of Brooklyn’s diverse low-income population. BLS focuses on the problems that have the greatest impact on our clients — preserving affordable and decent housing, maintaining income support, redressing abusive lending and consumer practices, promoting family stability and mitigating the effects of domestic violence, and advocating for the disabled.

The Tenant Rights Coalition (“TRC”) is a citywide initiative dedicated to anti-displacement work in neighborhoods facing heighten gentrification and tenant displacement, in particular due to recent rezoning actions by the city. The TRC utilizes a movement lawyering model and involves close collaboration with tenant organizing groups. Brooklyn Legal Services’ TRC unit, which is based in Brownsville, has nearly 30 staff comprised of supervisors, attorneys, paralegals, and essential staff. Our dedicated staff of housing advocates work with individuals and tenant groups to prevent evictions and support collective tenant action, often in partnership with community based organizers and tenant associations. The work of the TRC focuses on East New York, Brownsville, and surrounding neighborhoods.

Brooklyn Legal Services (“BLS”) seeks an experienced housing attorney to direct its Tenant Rights Coalition.

Brooklyn Legal Services, part of Legal Services NYC, provides high-quality, innovative representation to address the pressing legal needs of Brooklyn’s diverse low-income population. BLS focuses on the problems that have the greatest impact on our clients — preserving affordable and decent housing, maintaining income support, redressing abusive lending and consumer practices, promoting family stability and mitigating the effects of domestic violence, and advocating for the disabled.

The Tenant Rights Coalition (“TRC”) is a citywide initiative dedicated to anti-displacement work in neighborhoods facing heighten gentrification and tenant displacement, in particular due to recent rezoning actions by the city. The TRC utilizes a movement lawyering model and involves close collaboration with tenant organizing groups. Brooklyn Legal Services’ TRC unit, which is based in Brownsville, has nearly 30 staff comprised of supervisors, attorneys, paralegals, and essential staff. Our dedicated staff of housing advocates work with individuals and tenant groups to prevent evictions and support collective tenant action, often in partnership with community based organizers and tenant associations. The work of the TRC focuses on East New York, Brownsville, and surrounding neighborhoods.

Make the Road New York currently hiring a Supervising Attorney to oversee our Housing and Benefits practice. Our team includes four other experienced housing attorneys and one housing and public benefits advocate, and collaborates closely with our organizing team to focus on anti-harassment and prevention of displacement around our neighborhood offices in Bushwick and Jackson Heights. The Supervising Attorney will provide policy and campaign support on the areas of housing and public benefits. The Supervising Attorney will also have a small docket of housing cases, that will be predominantly eviction prevention and HP cases.       

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.

The Staten Island Housing Unit, in particular, preserves affordable housing for Staten Island's low-income communities through representation of low-income individuals and families throughout Staten Island who are facing threats of eviction, harassment, or issues of habitability. Additionally, we advocate on the behalf of clients to retain or attain crucial public benefits that can preserve affordable housing.

For more than 20 years, CAMBA Legal Services, as a whole, has provided free, high-quality legal representation and advice to New Yorkers facing eviction and foreclosure, fighting high consumer debt, seeking U.S. residency and surviving domestic violence. CLS uses its diverse resources to offer holistic representation and advice. The Housing Unit, in particular, preserves affordable housing for Brooklyn and Staten Island's low-income communities through representation of low-income individuals and families throughout Brooklyn and Staten Island who are facing threats of eviction, harassment, or issues of habitability. Additionally, we advocate on the behalf of clients to retain or attain crucial public benefits that can preserve affordable housing.

Mobilization for Justice (formerly MFY Legal Services), 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 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 Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan Housing Court, state Supreme Court, and administrative proceedings as appropriate; 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 elected officials and the media. The attorney will work at Mobilization for Justice’s Bronx office.

The Safety Net Project (SNP) at the Urban Justice Center is seeking attorneys who are looking for a creative and non-traditional environment working with passionate and dedicated professionals in the fight against unchecked gentrification and unaffordable housing.

SNP seeks applicants for the position of Housing Staff Attorney. The Staff Attorney will provide direct legal representation to tenants in the area of landlord-tenant law, including civil proceedings in NYC Housing Court, affirmative litigation and New York City Housing Authority Administrative (NYCHA) hearings and appeals.  

The Safety Net Project (SNP) at the Urban Justice Center seeks applicants for the position of Supervising Attorney. The Supervising Attorney will supervise three Staff Attorneys under the Direction of SNP’s Director of Litigation. SNP’s housing law practice provides direct legal representation to tenants in the area of landlord-tenant law, including civil proceedings in NYC Housing Court, affirmative litigation and New York City Housing Authority Administrative (NYCHA) hearings and appeals.

In addition to supervising several staff attorneys, the Supervising Attorney will manage a small caseload; provide staff attorneys with proper legal training and professional development support; and assist SNP’s staff attorneys on concrete legal tasks. The Supervising Attorney will join SNP’s management team to collaboratively identify, manage and advance new campaign and litigation ideas and opportunities. 

This position will focus on developing and coordinating our housing pro bono efforts – in particular, litigation of housing repair and tenant harassment cases (HPs). Thousands of low-income tenants struggle with shocking housing conditions in New York City – including lack of heat, mold, vermin, and even nonworking plumbing. These conditions are frequently compounded by landlord harassment, particularly in the City’s many gentrifying neighborhoods. The vast majority of tenants seeking this relief are pro se, and many struggle to litigate their cases without legal support. 

The Tenant Rights Coalition (“TRC”) is a citywide initiative dedicated to anti-displacement work in neighborhoods facing heighten gentrification and tenant displacement, in particular due to recent rezoning actions by the city. The TRC utilizes a movement lawyering model and involves close collaboration with tenant organizing groups. Brooklyn Legal Services’ TRC unit, which is based in Brownsville, has nearly 30 staff comprised of supervisors, attorneys, paralegals, and essential staff. Our dedicated staff of housing advocates work with individuals and tenant groups to prevent evictions and support collective tenant action, often in partnership with community based organizers and tenant associations. The work of the TRC focuses on East New York, Brownsville, and surrounding neighborhoods. 

The person filling this position is expected, under the direction of the General Counsel, to provide direct legal representation and advice to the clients of CAMBA Legal Services. The attorney will be expected to litigate cases in housing court, administrative forums, and other state and federal courts on behalf of people facing eviction, and in affirmative cases challenging actors who threaten Brooklyn residents' ability to obtain or retain affordable housing. This person will be expected to regularly appear in court, persuasively advocate for clients, conduct interviews, draft motions, prepare for trial, and negotiate settlements. The successful applicant will also display an understanding and sensitivity to the lived experiences of our diverse clientele.

Our housing practice focuses on preserving affordable housing in Brooklyn for low- to moderate-income tenants, with the goal of staving off gentrification and preventing the displacement of communities—particularly communities of color—that have anchored Brooklyn neighborhoods for generations. We achieve this goal through a blend of individual defense work and systemic affirmative litigation. In addition to the thousands of Housing Court proceedings we defend individual tenants against every year, we also actively seek out opportunities to protect buildings from deregulation by combating fraudulent MCI and IAI applications at DHCR, challenging rent overcharges in Supreme Court, bringing group HPs against landlords to obtain repairs for tenants, and filing affirmative litigation based on the FHA, ADA, and State and City Human Rights Law to stop racist and other discriminatory practices by landlords. We have deep ties to tenant organizing groups in the communities we serve and work hand-in-hand with them to ensure that our practice reflects the needs and desires of these communities.

The attorney will be responsible for providing direct legal assistance to community groups and their members in the area of landlord-tenant law, including affirmative litigation on behalf of tenant associations (e.g., HP actions, rent strikes, and 7A proceedings), as well as individual anti-eviction litigation and wherever else the work takes us. The advocacy roles will include training community groups and their members on tenants’ rights issues, assisting with legislative and/or regulatory advocacy, organizing and participating in housing clinics, and providing advice and referrals. Because we meet our clients where they are, the job will require regular night meetings and some weekend clinics.

Brooklyn Legal Services (BLS) seeks a Director for its Housing Law Unit. The Housing Law Unit preserves affordable housing for Brooklyn’s low-income communities through representation of low-income tenants in eviction proceedings, collaboration with community based organizations, and affirmative litigation to challenge abusive and discriminatory behaviors that displace low-income families and eliminate affordable housing.

The Supervising Attorney will be responsible for the smooth and effective day-to-day operations of the Housing Program in the assigned office. The Supervising Attorney will also coordinate some grant projects, mentor and supervise staff, provide legal leadership, and prioritize legal issues. The Supervising Attorney participates in Practice-wide management discussions and decision-making and is responsible for maintaining relationships with other stakeholders in the legal, court, and service communities.

The Legal Aid Society, the nation's oldest and largest social justice legal services organization, has openings for dedicated, entry level housing staff attorneys in the Civil Practice. The Housing Unit handles a broad range of tenant representation at the trial and appellate levels, including holdovers, nonpayment proceedings, administrative hearings, and affirmative litigation in State and Federal courts. There are openings for Staff Attorneys in all five boroughs.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice is seeking a Staff Attorney for the Housing Group Advocacy Project in the Harlem Community Law Office. The Housing Group Advocacy Project is an anti-displacement and tenant protection project focusing on supporting specific New York City communities facing rapid gentrification in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. The Staff Attorney will work with tenant associations, community-based organizations and pro bono attorneys to help stabilize client communities by preventing harassment of tenants and tenant displacement as well as assisting tenants with obtaining repairs and essential services. The Staff Attorney may be required to work in more than one community or borough depending on changing client needs and priorities; may be required to handle group tenant representation, bring affirmative litigation to enforce tenant rights and work with community or housing organizers; and may be asked to conduct regular intake with community-based organizations, in Housing Court, at Single Stop, or at other community sites.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice is seeking a Staff Attorney for the Housing Group Advocacy Project in the Bronx Neighborhood Office. The Housing Group Advocacy Project is an anti-displacement and tenant protection project focusing on supporting specific New York City communities facing rapid gentrification in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. The Staff Attorney will work with tenant associations, community-based organizations and pro bono attorneys to help stabilize client communities by preventing harassment of tenants and tenant displacement as well as assisting tenants with obtaining repairs and essential services. The Staff Attorney may be required to work in more than one community or borough depending on changing client needs and priorities; may be required to handle group tenant representation, bring affirmative litigation to enforce tenant rights and work with community or housing organizers; and may be asked to conduct regular intake with community-based organizations, in Housing Court, at Single Stop, or at other community sites.

Bronx Legal Services seeks experienced housing attorneys to join its supervisory team. The supervising attorneys will support the work of attorneys and staff, and the day-to-day functioning of the housing unit. The supervisors must be able to juggle a fast-paced practice and support litigation and advocacy on a range of issues, coordinate building-wide and community-based litigation, and organize community education outreach and related initiatives. Candidates are expected to supervise regular appearances in civil, supreme, and federal court and administrative proceedings, review draft pleadings, motions, and court submissions, and support the filing of affirmative cases on behalf of tenants and tenant groups.

The Housing Attorney will be an integral member of our Legal Advocacy Department, which provides comprehensive legal services in the areas of housing, health care, access to government benefits and advance directives to low income individuals in Manhattan. Our team of lawyers and legal advocates represent individuals in court and administrative forums; assist individuals with securing critical income supports and entitlements; and provides advice, counseling, advocacy and referrals to clients as needed. We conduct community education workshops for clients, staff members, community residents, pro bono attorneys, and social service providers. We participate in policy advocacy efforts and citywide campaigns

The Bilingual Housing Attorney will be an integral member of our Legal Advocacy Department, which provides comprehensive legal services in the areas of housing, health care, access to government benefits and advance directives to low income individuals in Manhattan. Our team of lawyers and legal advocates represent individuals in court and administrative forums; assist individuals with securing critical income supports and entitlements; and provides advice, counseling, advocacy and referrals to clients as needed. We conduct community education workshops for clients, staff members, community residents, pro bono attorneys, and social service providers. We participate in policy advocacy efforts and citywide campaigns.

The staff attorney will join Brooklyn A’s Preserving Affordable Housing team. The work involves representing individuals and families facing eviction in court and before administrative agencies with advocacy based on legal research, drafting documents, pleadings, motions, and briefs with knowledge of legal procedures to effectively counsel clients and insure the best possible outcome in each case. Staff Attorneys will handle a full caseload of full representation non-payment and holdover proceedings in Housing Court, which involves frequent motion practice, discovery and depositions, communication with clients, negotiations with opposing counsel and advocacy with outside agencies on behalf of clients.
 

Brooklyn A’s Individual Representation Unit has a 50-year history of meaningful and impactful work
on housing law issues. We understand the dilemma that individuals and families face when stable
housing is lost. Families at risk of homelessness are provided high quality legal representation
and aggressive advocacy that stop evictions and preserve affordable housing. In the face of a
rising tide of gentrification and tenant displacement there is a crucial need for effective advocacy to
insure the best possible outcome in each case through legal research, drafting documents,
pleadings, motions and briefs with knowledge of legal procedures.

The Deputy Director will work closely with the Unit Director and other Deputy Directors in the management and leadership of the Unit. The responsibilities of this position include the supervision of a large team of attorneys, advocates, and administrative staff representing tenant associations and individual tenants in Brooklyn suffering from harassment and displacement due to prior/imminent local rezonings and gentrification, including the communities of Bushwick, East New York, Brownsville, and Cypress Hills.
In this role, the Deputy Director will assist the Unit Director in the development and implementation of the
strategic vision for the Unit’s work in these neighborhoods, including all aspects of the unit’s legal advocacy, representation of its clients, and close collaborations with community-based organizations and partners.

The Director will coordinate overall leadership of our housing practice with the Director of our Tenants Rights Coalition Unit and will lead our Universal Access to Counsel in Housing Court initiative, which is working to implement the NYC law mandating universal access to legal counsel in eviction proceedings. The Director will shape the direction and manage the operations of the Housing Unit; develop and strengthen relationships with partner community organizations; handle administrative and grant responsibilities; oversee the work of several Supervising Attorneys and two Deputy Directors; and work to identify systemic housing-related trends that could be affected by strategic litigation.https://www.legalservicesnyc.org/get-involved/opportunities/8-job-openings-and-internships/1471-director-housing-unit-job-562019

The staff attorney will join a vibrant practice in the heart of Southeast Queens, serving low-income tenants throughout the borough. We are looking for candidates who are excited to work in a fast-paced environment on housing-related matters, including landlord/tenant actions, eviction defense and affirmative litigation on behalf of tenants. The attorney will be expected to work closely with community-based organizations and conduct weekly, evening and weekend outreach and off-site intake with our partners.

Responsibilities include providing legal advice and counseling; case investigation; drafting legal documents; direct representation of clients in Housing and Supreme Court and administrative proceedings; filing affirmative litigation and appeals; and working closely with community-based organizations, as well as periodic evening and weekend outreach.

The Supervising Attorney will be responsible for the smooth and effective day-to-day operations of the Housing Program in the assigned office. The Supervising Attorney will also coordinate some grant projects, mentor and supervise staff, provide legal leadership, and prioritize legal issues. The Supervising Attorney participates in Practice-wide management discussions and decision-making and is responsible for maintaining relationships with other stakeholders in the legal, court, and service communities.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice has experienced and entry-level Staff Attorney positions available in the Housing Unit. The Housing Unit handles a broad range of individual and group tenant representation at the trial and appellate levels, including holdovers, nonpayment proceedings, administrative hearings, and affirmative litigation in state and federal courts. The Staff Attorney will also work with tenant associations, tenant organizers, community-based organizations, partner legal services agencies, and pro bono attorneys.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice is seeking a Staff Attorney for the Housing Group Advocacy Unit in the East New York Brooklyn office. The Housing Group Advocacy Unit is an anti-displacement and tenant protection project focusing on supporting specific New York City communities facing rapid gentrification in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. Staff Attorneys work with tenant associations, community-based organizations and pro bono attorneys to help stabilize client communities by preventing harassment of tenants and tenant displacement as well as assisting tenants with obtaining repairs and essential services. The Staff Attorney may be required to work in more than one community or borough depending on changing client needs and priorities. The Staff Attorney handles tenant group representation; brings affirmative litigation to enforce tenants' rights; works with community or housing organizers; and may be asked to conduct regular intake with community-based organizations in Housing Court, at Single Stop or at other community sites.

Manhattan Legal Services, a part of Legal Services NYC, is seeking four dynamic and committed attorneys to serve as a Supervising Attorneys in our Housing Unit. Manhattan Legal Services is part of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), the largest provider of free civil legal services for low-income people in the country. The Manhattan office is dedicated to providing high quality legal services in the areas of housing, family law, public benefits, employment, immigration, and consumer, education, and disability rights. We work in partnership with community-based organizations in the low-income communities we serve to address.

Manhattan Legal Services, a part of Legal Services NYC, is seeking a dynamic and experienced attorney to serve as a Deputy Director working with our Housing Unit’s Tenant Rights Coalition.This position will involve helping to lead an established and growing tenants' rights initiative that focuses on supporting communities facing rapid displacement.We seek candidates who are excited to work in a fast-paced environment and to use creative strategies in the pursuit of justice. The Deputy Director will be part of our housing unit supervision team under the supervision of our Housing Unit Director, overseeing the work of attorneys and paralegals as well as working closely with tenant organizers, tenant associations and community partners to identify and address housing needs.

We are seeking a staff attorney to work in our Housing Unit assisting low-income tenants throughout the borough in avoiding displacement through a range of legal avenues. The attorney will litigate cases in housing court, administrative forums, and other state and federal courts on behalf of people facing eviction, and in affirmative cases challenging landlords, administrative agencies and other actors who threaten Staten Island residents' ability to obtain and retain safe and affordable housing. The work will involve developing expertise in housing court practice, housing programs and subsidies, and public benefits. The attorney will have opportunities to conduct community outreach and to provide trainings to other advocates, tenant associations, community members and community organizations.

RiseBoro Legal Empowerment and Assistance Program (LEAP), seeks a Staff Attorney to further LEAP’s mission of providing underserved low-income residents in Brooklyn with high quality, free legal services and assistance designed to preserve safe and affordable housing, and prevent needless homelessness by representing tenants facing illegal or unnecessary evictions, displacement, and tenant harassment. RiseBoro/LEAP is a uniquely holistic community based housing organization that provides clients with brief legal advice, full representation in housing court and other administrative agencies, tenant organizing, and tenants' rights workshops.

Staten Island Legal Services (across the street from the ferry), is part of Legal Services NYC, the largest provider of free civil legal services in the nation. We are seeking a staff attorney to work in our Housing Unit assisting low-income tenants throughout the borough in avoiding displacement through a range of legal avenues. The attorney will litigate cases in housing court, administrative forums, and other state and federal courts on behalf of people facing eviction, and in affirmative cases challenging landlords, administrative agencies and other actors who threaten Staten Island residents' ability to obtain and retain safe and affordable housing. The work will involve developing expertise in housing court practice, housing programs and subsidies, and public benefits. The attorney will have opportunities to conduct community outreach and to provide trainings to other advocates, tenant associations, community members and community organizations.

The Housing Unit preserves affording housing for Brooklyn's low-income communities through representation of low-income individuals and families throughout Brooklyn who are facing threats of eviction, harassment, or issues of habitability. Additionally, we advocate on the behalf of clients to retain or attain crucial public benefits that can preserve affordable housing.

Bronx Legal Services' Housing Unit is hiring attorneys to work as part of New York City's Universal Access to Counsel in Housing Court initiative (UAC), which seeks to provide legal assistance to all tenants facing eviction in court. UAC attorneys will primarily litigate cases in housing court, administrative forums and other state and federal courts on behalf of people facing eviction, and may also litigate affirmative cases challenging agencies and actors who threaten Bronx residents' ability to obtain and retain affordable housing.

The Housing Unit is also hiring attorneys for its Tenant Rights Coalition (TRC), which seeks to combat tenant harassment and displacement through individual representation, as well as representation of tenant groups in affirmative litigation to address building-wide issues that could include repairs, overcharges or other issues. TRC attorneys work closely with community-based organizers.

Brooklyn Legal Services seeks a Staff Attorney for its Housing Law Unit. 

The Staff Attorney will represent tenants and groups in Housing Court eviction proceedings, administrative proceedings, Supreme Court actions against administrative agencies, impact litigation in Federal and other courts, and other litigation. Other duties include intake, community education, and community outreach. The position may be located in any of our four offices in Bed-Stuy, Clinton Hill, East New York/Brownsville, and downtown Brooklyn.