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Honestly lawyers are expensive and corporate landlords know that. The reality is they bank on the fact that most folks dealing with collapsing ceilings or black mold in their apartments can't afford to hire legal representation to actually fight back so they just ignore the maintenance requests. I prefer to level the playing field so we decided to just bring the lawyers directly to the neighborhood for free instead. Through The Rising Tide Fellowship we're organizing a pop-up legal clinic to help tenants coordinate real legal action.
And the paperwork for an Article 7-D petition can be highly confusing to navigate alone. One small mistake can get your case thrown right out of housing court which is exactly what these out-of-town LLCs are hoping for so we aren't going to let that happen. Partnering up with some solid local housing attorneys allows us to walk folks step-by-step through the process of legally paying rent into court until critical repairs are finished. Hitting these absentee property owners right in their balance sheets is how we build tangible tenant power without begging a broken municipal system for favors.
Just the arduous slow-moving reality of the work.
I highly recommend bringing your lease and any photos of ignored maintenance requests to the meeting. Let's build something beautiful.
Edward Todd Harris III (Eddie Tatu Harris)
Circle Steward, The Rising Tide Fellowship
#Buffalo #FreeLegalAid #TenantPower #MastenDistrict #RisingTideFellowship #Article7D #QueenCityCommonwealth
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Honestly lawyers are expensive and corporate landlords know that. The reality is they bank on the fact that most folks dealing with collapsing ceilings or black mold in their apartments can't afford to hire legal representation to actually fight back so they just ignore the maintenance requests. I prefer to level the playing field so we decided to just bring the lawyers directly to the neighborhood for free instead. Through The Rising Tide Fellowship we're organizing a pop-up legal clinic to help tenants coordinate real legal action.
And the paperwork for an Article 7-D petition can be highly confusing to navigate alone. One small mistake can get your case thrown right out of housing court which is exactly what these out-of-town LLCs are hoping for so we aren't going to let that happen. Partnering up with some solid local housing attorneys allows us to walk folks step-by-step through the process of legally paying rent into court until critical repairs are finished. Hitting these absentee property owners right in their balance sheets is how we build tangible tenant power without begging a broken municipal system for favors.
Just the arduous slow-moving reality of the work.
I highly recommend bringing your lease and any photos of ignored maintenance requests to the meeting. Let's build something beautiful.
Edward Todd Harris III (Eddie Tatu Harris)
Circle Steward, The Rising Tide Fellowship
#Buffalo #FreeLegalAid #TenantPower #MastenDistrict #RisingTideFellowship #Article7D #QueenCityCommonwealth
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Honestly lawyers are expensive and corporate landlords know that. The reality is they bank on the fact that most folks dealing with collapsing ceilings or black mold in their apartments can't afford to hire legal representation to actually fight back so they just ignore the maintenance requests. I prefer to level the playing field so we decided to just bring the lawyers directly to the neighborhood for free instead. Through The Rising Tide Fellowship we're organizing a pop-up legal clinic to help tenants coordinate real legal action.
And the paperwork for an Article 7-D petition can be highly confusing to navigate alone. One small mistake can get your case thrown right out of housing court which is exactly what these out-of-town LLCs are hoping for so we aren't going to let that happen. Partnering up with some solid local housing attorneys allows us to walk folks step-by-step through the process of legally paying rent into court until critical repairs are finished. Hitting these absentee property owners right in their balance sheets is how we build tangible tenant power without begging a broken municipal system for favors.
Just the arduous slow-moving reality of the work.
I highly recommend bringing your lease and any photos of ignored maintenance requests to the meeting. Let's build something beautiful.
Edward Todd Harris III (Eddie Tatu Harris)
Circle Steward, The Rising Tide Fellowship
#Buffalo #FreeLegalAid #TenantPower #MastenDistrict #RisingTideFellowship #Article7D #QueenCityCommonwealth
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Honestly lawyers are expensive and corporate landlords know that. The reality is they bank on the fact that most folks dealing with collapsing ceilings or black mold in their apartments can't afford to hire legal representation to actually fight back so they just ignore the maintenance requests. I prefer to level the playing field so we decided to just bring the lawyers directly to the neighborhood for free instead. Through The Rising Tide Fellowship we're organizing a pop-up legal clinic to help tenants coordinate real legal action.
And the paperwork for an Article 7-D petition can be highly confusing to navigate alone. One small mistake can get your case thrown right out of housing court which is exactly what these out-of-town LLCs are hoping for so we aren't going to let that happen. Partnering up with some solid local housing attorneys allows us to walk folks step-by-step through the process of legally paying rent into court until critical repairs are finished. Hitting these absentee property owners right in their balance sheets is how we build tangible tenant power without begging a broken municipal system for favors.
Just the arduous slow-moving reality of the work.
I highly recommend bringing your lease and any photos of ignored maintenance requests to the meeting. Let's build something beautiful.
Edward Todd Harris III (Eddie Tatu Harris)
Circle Steward, The Rising Tide Fellowship
#Buffalo #FreeLegalAid #TenantPower #MastenDistrict #RisingTideFellowship #Article7D #QueenCityCommonwealth