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Many more tenants are sued in housing court every year.įor example, Parkash was also singled out for using housing court to sue Bronx tenants an average of 1.2 times per tenant-or 1,813 suits for a total of 1,483 tenants in 5 Bronx ZIP codes. The 18,000 number represents only evictions that were physically carried out by marshals.
In addition, 84% of tenants who had an attorney through the Right to Counsel program have stayed in their homes, said Susanna Blankley, coalition coordinator for the RTCNYC Coalition, an alliance of tenant rights advocates that pushed for the law.Įviction numbers are notoriously difficult to compile, and complicated by the fact that many building owners use LLCs to obscure their identity. Eviction rates declined five times faster last year in the 20 ZIP codes where the law was in effect.
Overall, evictions in the five boroughs fell to just over 18,000 in 2018, from close to 21,000 in 2017 and 30,000 in 2014. The law, which was passed in August 2018 and is being phased-in over five years, has been credited with reducing evictions. The list, along with a digital map of evictions in the New York area, are part of an effort by a coalition of tenant rights groups to call attention to the city's Right to Counsel law, a first-in-the-nation law that in select ZIP codes provides free legal counsel to low-income tenants facing eviction in housing court.
Topping the list: Ved Parkash, who evicted 66 tenants in the Bronx-which has the city's highest eviction rates-as well as 149 across the city in 2018. Tenant activists stepped up their campaign against what they say are abusive landlords with the release today of a list of the most prolific evictors in areas where tenants facing eviction have a right to a free lawyer.
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