The Nation - News from Aug. 9, 1987
Tenants’ disadvantages in housing court eviction proceedings have contributed to the number of homeless people, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a study. Disadvantages include “ignorance of their rights, lack of legal representation and inequities and slipshod practices in housing court procedures,” said Jerome L. Reide, coordinator of the study based on questionnaires to Legal Services Corp. offices which represent low-income people around the country, and on the monitoring of three New York City housing courts for four months.
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