New York and cities across the country need to remove obstacles that prevent tenants from accessing justice.
I am a tenants’ rights attorney and I’ve spent the majority of the last decade working in the Bronx, fighting evictions and distressed building conditions for low-income tenants. Over the years, I’ve seen how poor infrastructure and building neglect in low-income communities of color has led to building fires. The pandemic has made this work all the more exhausting.
Poverty can be a death sentence. Studies show that low-income families are more likely to die from residential building fires than more affluent families. Theis twice the overall rate. When low-income tenants find affordable housing, many do not complain to the landlord about the conditions in need of repairs for fear of retaliatory eviction, even if the conditions are dangerous.
When a tenant calls 311, the New York City non-emergency hotline, to make a complaint about apartment conditions in need of repair, the city generally arranges for an inspector from the local housing agency to visit within a few days. The success of the inspection hinges on clear communication between the tenant and inspector. Lack of language access can be a major impediment. Inspectors write down violations that the tenant explains to them.
Race and immigration intersect in ways that deny tenants equal access to the judicial system. For example, some undocumented tenants fear reporting squalid living conditions because landlords,
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