This guide provides access to books, databases, websites, and other information related to housing. Use the tabs towards the top of the page to go to the relevant section.
These resources will help you take legal action on a wide range of housing issues including eviction, repairs, rent increases, foreclosure, as well as policy and legislation.
NYC Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) provides information on a number of landlord-tenant issues, including repairs, peeling paint, security deposits, and landlord harassment.
Half of NYC apartments are rent stabilized. Find out if yours is one of them. If your apartment is rent-stabilized or rent-controled, you can file complaints the NY state housing agency, Homes & Community Renewal (HCR).
Information sheets, guides, and access to council on a wide range of housing related topics including foreclosure rescue scams, breaking a lease, repair and service rights, having a service animal & emotional support animal in shelter, and more.
Detailed answers and valuable, up-to-date links on a wide range of issues including repairs, services, and conditions, paying the rent, roommates & sharing, eviction defense.
The NYC Office of the Public Advocate’s Worst Landlord Watchlist "enables tenants, public officials, advocates, and other concerned individuals to identify which residential property owners consistently flout City laws intended to protect the rights and safety of tenants."
Provides bilingual English/Spanish tenant counseling, tenant rights workshops, and legal clinics. For the Park Slope office call 718-237-2017. For the Sunset Park office call 718-686-7946.
Provides counseling on tenant/landlord issues, eviction protection, and foreclosure prevention in the neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and Prospect Heights. Call 718-522-2613.
Focuses on foreclosure prevention and homeowner rights. The Legal Assistance Hotline is open Monday through Friday from 9:30am to 4pm. Call 917-661-4500 to speak to an intake officer in any language.
Advice, counsel, and representation for low-income tenants in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan to prevent evictions and foreclosures and protect tenants’ rights. Call 212-417-3700.
Seeks to protect, stabilize, and expand the stock of affordable homes, locally-owned small businesses, and green spaces in East New York and Brownsville for the benefit of low- to moderate- income Black and brown residents.
An alliance of social justice and affordable housing organizations committed to winning housing for all New Yorkers by promoting non-speculative housing models.
Monitors the city’s response to homelessness, temporary housing and shelters, tenant rights, public housing (NYCHA) conditions and repairs; zoning; housing fairness; and access to affordable, safe, and quality living spaces. File complaints through the Constituent Help Desk Intake Form at https://advocate.nyc.gov/intake/.
Led the campaign to make it a right for tenants to have a lawyer when facing eviction in NYC, inspiring a Right to Counsel movement across the country. They continue to work for an eviction-free NYC.
