Amber Marshall

Tenant attorney | views are my own 🖖🏼 she/her

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

BREAKING: Legal Aid, along with the New York City Council, secures a $175M settlement to expand housing voucher access.

A major victory for New Yorkers in shelters and those facing eviction. https://t.co/RgHlwZmwm9

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

Victory! 👏 LAS Secures Ruling to Force Implementation of Housing Voucher Reform.

“Today’s unanimous appellate decision is a critical moment for thousands of New Yorkers struggling with housing insecurity.” Robert Desir, attorney at Legal Aid.

https://t.co/7eHZ0Gx4Nm

[City Limits @CityLimitsNews]

With homelessness at record highs, City Limits asked the candidates where they stand on shelters and housing vouchers, street and subway homelessness, and supportive housing. via @patrickspauster: https://t.co/8en4oJrKru

[Amber Marshall @Amber_LM]

RT @Gothamist: At first glance, there’s nothing particularly special about the intersection of Queens Boulevard and 58th Street in Woodside…

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

“This guidance is deeply alarming and will likely deter vulnerable individuals and families with children from entering the local shelter system due to fear of detention and deportation,” Kathryn Kliff, staff attorney, LAS.

https://t.co/tOdd3tWCW9

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

The longer the City delays payments to nonprofits, the more New Yorkers will fall through the cracks of a weakened safety net.

“The city’s dysfunctional contracting process needs a comprehensive overhaul,” Twyla Carter, CEO/Attorney-in-Chief, LAS.

More: https://t.co/p4tokSv6nF

[Community Service Society of New York (CSS) @CSSNYorg]

.@weunlocknyc & CSS just released a report examining discrimination against voucher holders in NYC's housing market.

+700 cases highlight how landlords and brokers adapt their tactics to evade enforcement, worsening homelessness & segregation.

Read more https://t.co/Iz4JorIeCE

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Institutional investors now own more than 35% of the rental housing stock in the United States, according to @Reuters.

[Diane Yentel @dianeyentel]

❗️The Supreme Court just ruled to make it easier to jail or fine unhoused people for sleeping outside, even when adequate shelter or housing isn’t available.

This will only make homelessness worse.

Housing - not tickets, jail, or fines - ends homelessness.

[David Brand @DavidFBrand]

More than *100,000 households* have already applied for the Section 8 waiting list this morning

The application portal has only been open for 10 hours, most of those pre-dawn

The stat comes from NYCHA, which administers the largest Section 8 program in NYC

[Emma Whitford @emma_a_whitford]

As of today, you can officially apply to get on the Section 8 waitlist. If you've been navigating the site, how's it going?

https://t.co/UyLgEhfiRi

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

HAPPENING TODAY: The tenants of 2201-05 Davison Ave. in the Bronx have lived with numerous health and safety violations for far too long.

Today, LAS, @CMPiSanchez, and @northwestbronx are joining them to announce a lawsuit seeking an end to decades of neglect and harassment.

[Emma Whitford @emma_a_whitford]

glad to see my story from closing day at the Mount Eden HRA benefits office in today's @politicony playbook.

There are now just two walk-in SNAP centers in the Bronx: https://t.co/TiqkxuZ0GJ

[David Brand @DavidFBrand]

NEW: Tenants of a collapsed Bronx apartment building are suing the landlord for needed repairs and an end to what they call years-long harassment

Several who returned say their units were reconfigured & ransacked, with rats running wild

@Gothamist https://t.co/rc1GnqC9Sy

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

NOW: LAS is in the Bronx to announce our lawsuit against the City and landlord of the partially collapsed 1915 Billingsley Terrace.

Tenants need repairs to over 133 “immediately hazardous” housing violations.

Read more: https://t.co/QXzaEjxv63

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

New York City residents overwhelmingly say they support the right-to-shelter mandate requiring the city to provide shelter to anyone in need, according to a new poll. https://t.co/FpHmJcJizJ

[Matthew Tropp @matthewtropp]

Evictions Are a Racial Justice Crisis: Good Cause Protection New York #goodcause https://t.co/9frve9ly6s

[David Brand @DavidFBrand]

NEW: Some tenants are returning to their apartments after a partial Bronx building collapse — but first they’re being told to sign docs waiving a rent reduction, dropping a lawsuit and copping to illegal alterations they say they didn’t do

For @Gothamist https://t.co/btAGKUlPbT

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

No one should forced to sleep on city streets, exposed to the elements, at risk of life and limb. Join us tomorrow in support of New York's long-standing and life-saving Right to Shelter.

More: https://t.co/8Va68zvjkL.

[UAW @UAW]

Solidarity forever with the 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente! When you win this fight, the entire working class will win as well.

@seiu-uhw

https://t.co/gfYSrtecsb