After Pressure, NYCHA Publishes Comprehensive List of Laws Governing Tenants
After a more than year-long push from lawyers with the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), the housing authority is publishing all of its regulations in one document, which will be publicly available for the first time—and tenants and stakeholders have until next month to weigh in on the rules.
“[It’s] a huge step forward in terms of having a more participatory, transparent housing authority,” said Anna Luft, project director at NYLAG’s Public Housing Justice Project, where she represents tenants before NYCHA’s Office of Impartial Hearings, where termination of tenancy cases—the first step in the eviction process—are adjudicated.
For years, Luft said, the lack of a publicly available Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP) made it more difficult for her and other attorneys to defend NYCHA tenants facing potential termination, since it was hard to determine what the specific rules were.
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