Days before a state moratorium on evictions expires on Jan. 15, a NY judge ordered a state agency to temporarily accept applications from financially struggling tenants seeking pandemic rent relief under a program that had been shuttered for lack of funds.
A Manhattan Supreme Court justice ordered the state to re-open applications for a rent relief program.A New York judge on Thursday ordered a state agency to temporarily accept applications from financially struggling tenants seeking pandemic rent relief under a state program that had been shuttered for lack of funds.
“We laud this decision, which acknowledges the Legislature's clearly expressed intent to protect families from being evicted while they are waiting for federal funds to be fully distributed,” said Ed Josephson, a supervising attorney at The Legal Aid Society, which filed the class-action lawsuit in December.
In November, the state Office of Temporary and Disability Administration stopped accepting most new applications, saying there was not enough money to meet the overwhelming need. The agency said it’s short about $850 million. “Whether those funds will exceed respondent’s [Office of Temporary and Disability Administration’s] current liabilities is anyone’s guess,” Kotler wrote in her decision. “Respondent submits that the court should defer to its guess that funds will be insufficient. The court disagrees.”
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