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Our life-changing Court Navigators program – part of our eviction prevention program, Project Home – was just featured on Fox 5 NY. More than 70 percent of low-income tenants in NYC go without lawyers in Housing Court, while nearly 99% of landlords have attorneys to represent them. University Settlement’s Court Navigators program addresses that gap […]
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University Settlement’s groundbreaking partnership with NYU Langone’s Center for Early Childhood Health and Development was recently featured in DNAinfo. The partnership, called ParentCorps, is integrated into early childhood centers – including many of ours – to provide parents with strategies to solve behavioral problems at home while simultaneously educating teachers to reinforce those strategies in
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University Settlement and New York University are partnering together to launch a brand new program to address both the affordable housing crisis for college students and the rising population of lower-income older adults. As covered in The Guardian, the program will begin in fall of 2017 and will allow older adults with an extra room
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Imagine facing off alone against a team of lawyers trying to evict you from your home in one of the most complicated legal systems in the world. That describes the unfair housing court system that we are battling to correct. When NYC landlords sue to evict tenants, they almost always have a lawyer; 7 out
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Testimony for the New York City Council Committee on Governmental Operations and Committee on Oversight and Investigations The Lifting of the Rivington House Deed Restrictions Kevin Tobar Pesantez, Senior Housing Advocate September 29, 2016 Good morning, my name is Kevin Tobar Pesantez. I’m a Senior Housing Advocate at University Settlement. We are America’s first social
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A New York City leader dropped by University Settlement’s Children’s Corner to learn how the childhood center in East New York is preparing young children for a rich future. Council Member Inez Barron (District 42) toured the Brooklyn center on Monday. She praised the impressive amount of parental involvement and the high-quality facility designed for early
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Two top New York City officials paid a visit this August to University Settlement’s Cornerstone Community Center at Campos Plaza, a comprehensive center in the East Village where neighbors of all ages engage with each other and advance their lives, families, and community. Commissioner Bill Chong from the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) and Chair
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When the New York City Housing Authority and the Department of Youth and Community Development needed the right partner to revive Ingersoll Community Center in Fort Greene, they chose University Settlement. That was six years ago, and today it’s a cornerstone center serving thousands each year. Shawn Doyle was one of the neighbors who showed
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Contact: Amy Brenna 212.453.0285 abrenna@universitysettlement.org (New York, NY) July 15, 2016 – Late on Friday, July 8th, Mayor de Blasio issued a press release stating that policies and procedures related to lifting deed restrictions would be implemented in the future. To the Lower East Side neighborhood, he offered $16 million that would be “re-invested in the
Yesterday over 100 Lower East Side residents and advocates, and their elected officials, came together to raise their voices and be heard as they demanded that Rivington House be restored to the community as a care facility. Melissa Aase, Executive Director of University Settlement, kicked off the event with inspiring remarks. You can read an
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