On Thursday, the city Council of new York voted for the bill called «Right to counsel», under which the Bureau of Administration of civil justice of the Ministry of justice should provide free legal assistance to all low-income residents who faced eviction in the past five years.
The bill also includes the launch this fall of a pilot program to provide legal services to the residents of the state in administrative procedures.
According to the politician Mark Levine, who has developed a new bill, he is able to change the lives of many residents.
«I’m very worried, because this is the beginning of a new era for people who rent an apartment in new York. Now tenants don’t have to worry about that they can illegally evict and possibly make the homeless just because they have no money for a lawyer,» said Levin.
New York became the first city in the country, which guarantees free legal advice to tenants with low income. It is expected that for the year program will help to protect their rights more than 400,000 people, according to «NY1 News».
