Tenants who need help: click here for some web and phone resources.
Below are some special resources for certain issues:
- HOW TO FIND AN AFFORDABLE APARTMENT: NYC HOUSING CONNECT
- QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS
- FOR ALL TENANTS:
- JUSTFIX.NYC TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR LANDLORD, YOUR BUILDING'S STATUS, HOW TO GET REPAIRS, AND MORE.
Residential Tenants' Rights Guide - New York State Attorney General Letitia James
Affordable housing rights guide for people with disabilities
NYC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
NYC TENANT RESOURCE PORTAL
For rent-stabilized and rent-controlled tenants:
- JustFix.nyc
- Met Council on Housing Help & Answers (or call the hotline: 212-979-0611)
- NYC Rent Guidelines Board
- NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR)
- Tenants & Neighbors
- For Mitchell-Lama residents
- For NYCHA residents:
- NYC Resident Engagement (including resident councils)
- NYC Alliance to Preserve Public Housing (Community Service Society)
- YOUR LANDLORD IS TAKING YOU TO COURT. WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
- YOU NEED A LAWYER!
- Dial 311
- LawHelp NY
- Goddard Riverside Law Project (Upper West Side)
- Housing Court Answers
- Housing Rights Initiative
- Right to Counsel NYC (political work, rather than providing direct counsel)
- Urban Justice Center
- GET HELP ORGANIZING YOUR BUILDING (Partial list!))
- CASA/New Settlement Apartments (Bronx)
- Chhaya CDC (Queens)
- Cooper Square Committee (Lower East Side)
- Crown Heights Tenant Union (Brooklyn)
- Fifth Avenue Committee (Brooklyn)
- Flatbush Tenant Union (Brookyn)
- GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side)
- Metropolitan Council on Housing city-wide
- North West Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition
- Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp. (NMIC)
- P.A.'L.A.N.T.E. Harlem
- Tenants & Neighbors - city-wide
- UHAB (Urban Homesteading Assistance Bd. for affordable co-ops)
- West Side Neighborhood Alliance (part of Housing Conservation Coordinators)
- Fight for More Tenant Protection in the Law
- REACH MY ELECTED OFFICIALS
