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BarbaraJames_75 t1_j92c7gm wrote

Some key quotes:

In 2017, over two years prior to the onset of the pandemic, New York City passed the Right to Counsel law, which guarantees legal representation for low-income tenants facing eviction. With the removal of all COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the eviction moratorium at the beginning of 2022, a tidal wave of eviction actions was unleashed, greatly increasing the Legal Aid caseload, without any commensurate increase in staff or resources.

“We worked our asses off and we are all struggling with making ends meet. We’re asking for funding fairness and for parity with our colleagues across the aisle who at many different steps are making substantially more than us.”

Here's an interesting book that gets at the root of this type of labor issue--idealism in the non-profit sector: Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back (2021).

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MathDeacon t1_j97wsqm wrote

To be honest part of the problem was Legal Aid (and other tenant lawyer organizations) have taken cases for non-tensnts. Fired supers, squatters, individuals with no possessory interest (ie not residing in a rent stabilized apt). Probably did that to get funds. But they made their lawyers and staff continue handling these cases when there are now tenants in non payment cases who can't get lawyers. so poor management and probably financial greed (ironic) caused a lot of the overwork.

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ripstep1 t1_j96i36d wrote

Another example of government overreach

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