Articles by Mobilization for Justice

Using State Law to Enforce “Affirmatively Further” Fair Housing Obligations: No Longer Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole
By Andrew Darcy
November 14, 2023

The Intersection of the CARES Act and Landlord-Tenant Law
By Andrew Darcy
Lexis Practical Guidance June 5, 2023

With a Backlog of Cases, a Troubling Trend in Housing Court Emerges
By Andrew Darcy
Lexis Practical Guidance October 18, 2022

Did the CARES Act Preempt New York’s Rent Demand Rules?
By Andrew Darcy
Lexis Practical Guidance December 17. 2021

The HSTPA Extended Lockout Protections for Non-tenant Occupants: Did the Courts Get the Message?
By Andrew Darcy and Caroline Roe
Lexis Practical Guidance August 4. 2021

Commencing a Virtual Housing Part Proceeding in New York City
By Michael Pereira and Donna Chiu
Lexis Practical Guidance Checklist July 19, 2021

Tenant Representation in a Residential Nonpayment Proceeding (NY)
By Donna Chiu
Lexis Practical Guidance Practice Note April 9, 2021

Regina Metro One Year On: Residential Tenants in New York City Can Still Conduct Robust Discovery in Rent Overcharge Cases
By Andrew Darcy and Brian Sullivan
Lexis Practical Guidance April 20, 2021

In-Person and Virtual Hearing Comparison Chart (New York City Housing Court)
By Donna Chiu
Lexis Practical Guidance Chart (Real Estate, Residential Transactions, Leasing) January 6, 2021

New York City Tenants Can Still Uncover Landlord Fraud in Residential Landlord-Tenant Litigation
By Andrew Darcy and Brian Sullivan
Lexis Practice Advisor (Real Estate, Trends & Insights, First Analysis) July 13, 2020

De Facto Rent Stabilization in New York City
By Andrew Darcy and Brian Sullivan
Lexis Practice Advisor (Real Estate, Trends & Insights, First Analysis), March 24, 2020

Public Housing and Public Health: The Separate and Unequal Protection of Private and Public Housing Tenants’ Health in New York City
By Justin La Mort
American Bar Association Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, Vol. 27, No. 2, August 2018

Unaccompanied and Excluded from Food Security: A Call for the Inclusion of Immigrant Youth Twenty Years after Welfare Reform
By Claire R. Thomas & Ernie Collette
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Vol. 31:197, 2017

The Theft of Affordable Housing: How Rent Stabilized Apartments Are Disappearing from Fraudulent Apartment Improvements & What Can Be Done
By Justin La Mort
New York University Review of Law & Social Change, July 2016

MFY Legal Services, Inc.’s Medical-Legal Partnership with Bellevue Hospital Center: Providing Legal Care to Children with Psychiatric Disabilities
By Aleah Gathings
CUNY Law Review, Vol. 18, 2014, p. 1

SSI, SSD and Employment: What You  Need to Know
By Tim Deal
New York City Voices: A Journal for Mental Health Advocacy, Vol. XXII, No. 2, Summer 2014

Advocating Emotional Support Animals in No-Pets Housing
By Dinah Luck
This article was first published in 48 Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Policy Law and Policy (May-June 2014) Copyright 2014 Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Single-Room Occupancy Housing in New York City: The Origins & Dimensions of a Crisis
By Brian J. Sullivan and Jonathan Burke
CUNY Law Review, Vol. 17, 2013, p. 113

Challenges to Institutionalization: The Definition of “Institution” and the Future of Olmstead Litigation
By Kevin M. Cremin
Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, Vol. 17:2, 2012

Emerging Solutions in the Failure of Institutional Food
By Jota Borgmann
This article was first published in 46 Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, Nos. 5-6  (September-October 2012) Copyright 2012 Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

MFY Legal Services’ Mental Health-Legal Partnership
By Jeanette Zelhof and Sara J. Fulton
This article was first published in 44 Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy,  Nos. 11-12 (March-April 2011) Copyright 2011 Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

A Victory for Collaborative Advocacy: Odems v. New York City Board of Education
By Bernadette Jentsch
This article was first published in 45 Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, Nos. 7-8 (November-December 2011) Copyright 2011 Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Public Interest Lawyers Are Key in Passage of Landmark Legislation to Stem “Sewer Service” in New York City
By Carolyn E. Coffey and Johnson M. Tyler
This article was first published in 44 Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy,  Nos. 7-8 ( November-December 2010) Copyright 2010 Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Ensuring a Fair Hearing for Litigants with Mental Illness
By Kevin M. Cremin, J.D., Jean Philips, J.D., Claudia Sicklinger, M.D. and Jeanette Zelhof, J.D.
Journal of Law and Policy, Brooklyn Law School, Volume XVII, No. 2, 2009.

Protecting the Rights of Litigants with Diminished Capacity in the New York City Housing Courts
By Jeanette Zelhof, Andrew Goldberg and Hina Shamsi
Public Law, Policy, and Ethnics Journal, Cardozo School of Law, Volume Three, Issue Three, 2006.

 

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