WHO WE ARE RIGHT TO COUNSEL The Right to Counsel NYC Coalition is made up of N Y C C O A L I T I O N tenant organizing groups, tenant advocates, homeless advocates, senior advocates, disability advocates, academics, legal services organizations and more. We led the campaign that resulted in the passage of Local Law 136, which ensures that low-income tenants are represented in cases by attorneys when they defend their FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA AT: rights and their homes. The Coalition is actively Facebook: organizing and advocating www.facebook.com/RTCNY while this law is being Twitter: @RTCNYC phased in. wwww.righttocounselnyc.org www.rtctoolkit.org www.evictionfreenyc.org E M A I L U S : I N F O @ R I G H T T O C O U N S E L N Y C . O R G www.worstevictorsnyc.org

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On August 11, 2017, the Right to Our Working Groups Counsel NYC Coalition won a 3-year, grassroots campaign, making it a right for tenants to have an attorney when faced with an eviction in housing . COURT BASED TENANT ATTORNEY Right to Counsel (RTC) is a tool to build IMPLEMENTATION PIPELINE tenant power, challenge and , and build This working group is focused on ensuring The focus of the pipeline working group is on that the roll-out of RTC reflects that a new building a cohort of highly-qualified and the movement to fight and right has been created and helps create the effective advocates and supervisors to displacement. This is a victory for all of necessary culture shift in Housing Court and implement RTC. To do this, the group has New York and it's a huge step forward the tenant community. It also works to been focusing on promoting greater ensure that the implementation of RTC attention to housing rights advocacy in law towards creating a more equitable and centers the experiences of tenants and school instruction, including promoting more just city. It is also a testament to the maximizes tenant access to legal clinical and doctrinal offerings. The group representation, including for Limited English works to change attitudes in law schools so power, strength, and beauty of Proficient tenants and tenants with that becoming a housing rights advocate is organizing. disabilities.. seen as an exciting, transformative and desirable career choice. RTC will be implemented over the TENANT ORGANIZING POWER TO ORGANIZE course of the next few years, by zip CAMPAIGN codes. By 2022, the right will extend to This working group supports and coordinates the work of community-based organizing all income-eligible New Yorkers. During groups to increase tenant education and Members of this group are working on the phase in of RTC, we are working awareness, develop leaders, evaluate passing new legislation that would expand implementation, and combat landlord NYC's current RTC law to ensure that nearly hard to ensure a just implementation. harassment. This group plans town halls and all tenants who face eviction have RTC and other city wide mobilizations, such as the know about it. Intro 1104 would increase To do that we have 4 main working Worst Evictors Week of Action and the RTC's income eligibility level and expand the People’s Tribunal on . Organizing types of eviction cases covered by RTC. Intro groups that advance our work and groups are organizing tenants' associations 1529 would require the city to work with principles: to combat landlord harassment and will trusted tenant organizing groups to engage continue to conduct broad based outreach. and educate tenants about their rights.

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