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2015 Annual Report annual report 2015 Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A MESSAGE FROM OUR CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Dear Friends and Colleagues: Every day Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (Brooklyn A) helps improve the lives of people who live in pov- erty. We are dedicated to the principle that lawyers can help open doors and level the playing field for people facing enormous life challenges. Over the past year, hundreds of people like you - our friends and supporters - have supported our Mission to advance social and economic justice and community empowerment through innovative, collaborative, neighborhood-based legal representation and advocacy. Thanks to your support, Brooklyn A has been able to help more people in need than ever before. Our staff has tirelessly assisted thousands of people throughout Brooklyn, and New York City wide, in their fight for social justice. Through our Preserving Affordable Housing Program we closed 614 individual cases, affecting 1,666 individuals and families. We represented 86 tenant associations, in rent-stabilized housing, through which we have kept in and/or restored tenants to their homes. The Community and Economic Advocacy Program provided services to 160 homeowners facing foreclosure of which 49 cases were closed, impacting the lives of 355 adults (including 52 seniors) and 129 children. The Community and Economic Development Program represented 50 not-for-profit community-based organizations (CBOs) and community development corporations (CDCs) on 70 development and operational projects, which impacted the lives of 103,101 individuals and families. Our Community Legal Education work, including presentations, brochures, and website information, reached 46,038 people, enabling them to learn about their rights and protect themselves against landlord harassment. As we continue to grow and expand in the next year, our work will become that much more important to the communities that we serve, those that have been our core communities for decades and the new ones that we are able to assist as a result of our growth. We are thankful to our clients, partners, and supporters for their support. Without you we would not be here today. We are looking forward to serving even more clients in the year to come and continuing to defend and protect those in need; as well as providing critical legal support for the great CBOs that serve them and the neighborhoods in which we live. Sincerely, Martin S. Needelman, Esq. Paul J. Acinapura, Esq. Co-Executive Director & Chief Counsel Co-Executive Director & General Counsel Building Community. Ensuring Opportunity. Achieving Justice. ABOUT BROOKLYN A WHO WE ARE WHAT WE DO Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (Brooklyn A) advances social • Prevent and stop evictions and improve and economic justice and community empowerment through innovative, the living conditions of hundreds of collaborative, neighborhood-based legal representation and advocacy. We low-moderate income tenants and their assist individuals, families, not-for-profit community-based organizations families each year. (CBOs), community development corporations (CDCs), and coalitions • Preserve and expand affordable housing. in sustaining and developing vibrant, healthy communities. Litigate against predatory mortgage Since our establishment in 1968, we have addressed the systemic • schemes, discriminatory lending prac- problems facing our communities by providing a combination of full legal tices and other forms of consumer fraud representation, brief advice, advocacy and education to low-moderate perpetrated against low-moderate income income individuals and CBOs/CDCs throughout NYC. people. • Support community and economic devel- opment efforts undertaken by CBOs and OUR CORE PROGRAMS CDCs. • Assist income-eligible taxpayers with CONSUMER AND ECONOMIC ADVOCACY (CEA). Internal Revenue Service issues. The primary focus of the program is representing consumers victimized by fraudulent, abusive, and predatory business practices and promoting justice for consumers. We represent low-income and other vulnerable homeowners in foreclosure as well as in state and federal court litiga- Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) helps to ensure tion challenging predatory lending, abusive mortgage servicing, and fair the fairness and integrity of the U.S tax system. Free housing and lending violations. We represent homeowners in settlement legal representation and services for taxpayers with conferences and help clients negotiate loan modifications. We conduct federal and New York State income tax controversies education, counseling, and outreach to educate the community about fair including assisting clients with audits and examina- housing/lending laws, providing updates on developments and changes tions, innocent spouse relief requests, appeals, and in the law. collection issues. COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (CED). PRESERVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM. We provide in-house and special project legal counsel, which encom- Brooklyn A’s aggressive housing practice fights to pre- passes a full range of transactional legal services, to CBOs/CDCs. We vent evictions, preserve affordable housing, and ensure provide our clients with ongoing, comprehensive legal counsel in their that apartments are safe. We provide legal services, daily operation and functioning and at all stages of project and program including advice, advocacy, and aggressive litigation, development. We also provide a broad range of legal services to start-up to prevent evictions, in court and in administrative CBOs and NYCHA Tenant Associations (TAs) by helping them to proceedings; obtain needed repairs in apartments and incorporate, obtain federal and state tax exemptions, register with the buildings; obtain benefits to pay rent arrears and future NYS Office of the Attorney General Charities Bureau, and establish rent, and fight to reduce illegally high rents. Through functional corporate structures and governance and operational policies. our model of affirmative group representation, we preserve the affordability of entire buildings. We sup- LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC (LITC). port tenant associations and tenant organizations and Through education and representation of low-income taxpayers, primarily represent them in litigation; and provide training and in Brooklyn, but services are available to residents city-wide, Brooklyn A’s education on tenants’ rights and fair housing. 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW A YEAR OF IMPACT CONSUMER & ECONOMIC ADVOCACY PROGRAM (CEA) The CEA Program represented 160 homeowners facing foreclosure, of which 49 cases were closed; impacting the lives of 355 adults (including 52 seniors) and 129 children. COLLABORATING WITH PARTNERS TO MULTIPLY OUR EFFECTIVENESS: We collaborated with Neighborhood Housing Services of East Flatbush, Inc. and their resident certified Reverse Mortgage Counselor on the case of Wells Fargo v. Sybil and Jason Weekes. Ms. Weekes, an elderly woman, had fallen victim to an obviously predatory loan with payments vastly exceeding her ability to pay. After years of refusing to modify the loan, we were able to accept the case and prosecute the claim of predatory lending based upon racial discrimination. Judge Carolyn development for CHLDC; the first affordable senior hous- Demarest agreed with our claim, and we were able to reach ing in Cypress Hills/East New York and CHLDC’s first an agreement with Wells Fargo that reduced their claim project to see LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green from over $800K to $310K that could be satisfied with a Building Council. reverse mortgage. NHS’s housing counselor was able to Cypress Hills Senior Housing, located at 137 Jamaica model this solution for other clients, which kept Ms. Weekes Avenue in Brooklyn, will contain 53 one-bedroom dwell- in her home and allowed her son to refinance the home after ing units. The apartments will be rented to very low-income the crisis of foreclosure passed. senior citizens earning up to 50% of the Area Median Income as defined by HUD. COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC Brooklyn A represented CHLDC in various pre-devel- opment aspects of the project including: the negotiation DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (CED) and drafting of a demolition and remediation contract; The CED Program represented 50 not-for-profit clients on license agreements with the City of New York; the draft- 70 development and operational projects which impacted ing and ongoing administration of their architect contract; the lives of 103,101 individuals and families. the drafting of the construction contract; the preparation of SUPPORTING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: In the property management agreement; the formation of the October of 2015, the CED Program and its long-time client various subsidiaries needed for the project, including the title and partner, Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, holding Housing Development Fund Corporation; and the Inc. (CHLDC), closed on the “Cypress Hills Senior Limited Partnership for bringing low-income housing tax Housing Project.” The project is the first senior housing credits into the financing. 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW A YEAR OF IMPACT continued PRESERVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM • Closed 614 individual housing cases, affecting 1,666 people. • Represented 86 tenant associations in rent- stabilized housing through which we have restored tenants to their homes. • Expanded our Community Legal Education work, including presentations, brochures, and website infor- mation, to reach 46,038 people, enabling them to learn about their rights and protect themselves
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