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49 - Definitions.

NY Soc Serv L § 49 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) services to resolve conflicts between landlords and tenants and to facilitate fair and workable solutions;

(b) legal services to households threatened with the loss of their homes through eviction, harassment or other means;

(c) tenant activities to educate households in the areas of tenant rights and responsibilities, and to organize tenants to remedy housing problems such as code violations, landlord abandonment and harassment;

(d) benefits/entitlements advocacy to ensure that households are receiving all federal, state and local benefits to which they are entitled, such as temporary assistance to needy families, safety net assistance, food stamps, supplemental security income, rent security deposits, furniture and household moving expenses;

(e) relocation assistance which provides for the identification of and referral to permanent and habitable housing, transportation services, landlord/tenant lease negotiation services and assistance in establishing utility services; and

(f) the provision of or referral to support services designed to stabilize households in permanent and habitable housing including services related to substance abuse, domestic violence, housekeeping, budgeting, education, day care, employment, parenting, mental health, physical health, and such other services deemed necessary by the office of temporary and disability assistance. Service provided to homeless households pursuant to this paragraph must be provided for a period of at least six months beginning the first day of the month following the month in which such household secured permanent housing.

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49 - Definitions.