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NYC Housing Court Explained
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Before you begin: NYC Housing Court Explained
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About this program
Eugene Toussaint joins Charles McCracken, Eric Margolis and Dannelly Rodriguez to explore the work behind New York City Housing Court cases. The discussion follows nonpayment and holdover disputes, access to counsel, notices and service, defenses, repair issues, rental assistance and the pressure surrounding settlement.
The companion coursebook turns that practice experience into an eleven-chapter path from intake to implementation. It distinguishes the tenancy and protections at issue, examines the documents needed to support a defense, and connects legal strategy with the client’s goal of remaining housed or securing a workable move.
The 71-page edition develops the fictional Rivera file through a procedural record, rent and conditions evidence, an assistance transmittal and supporting record, operative settlement terms and a completed action ledger. A separate post-trial emergency file contains the application, client and counsel affirmations, exhibits, proposed order and service sequence. Changed-fact examples and an independent problem test whether the plan still works when the evidence, funding or procedural posture changes.
What you will learn
- Classify the tenancy and proceeding, screen for counsel, and identify the immediate deadline and client objective.
- Apply Good Cause and rent-stabilization screening without confusing coverage, ownership, and occupancy.
- Audit predicate notices and service, preserve defenses, and prepare a focused discovery or motion request.
- Develop habitability and property-record defenses, select affirmative relief, and calculate remaining exposure.
- Coordinate assistance and settlement terms with actual funding, repair, and relocation needs.
- Prepare for trial, respond to a warrant or lockout, and distinguish existing remedies from policy proposals.
Who this course is for
Attorneys handling New York City housing matters or advising clients facing eviction and housing instability.
Preparation
Begin with the tenancy, notices, petition, rent ledger, and the client’s goal. Use fictional or anonymized records when working through the checklist.
Course information
- Practice focus:
- A housing plan supported by papers, proof and realistic terms
- Format:
- Recorded discussion with companion written study
- Producer:
- Attorneys with Swag Learning Center
- Learning partnership:
- Latino Lawyers Association of Queens County
- Materials:
- 71-page coursebook · Participant review edition 2 · 2026-10-09 · Quality revision Q1 · 2026-10-12
- Proposed CLE request:
- Proposed: 1.5 CLE credits · Areas of Professional Practice
Approval not verified · No credit awarded
Before you watch
This course focuses on residential practice in New York City. Use the dated coursebook alongside the recording and verify the tenancy, current law, operative papers and court directions before applying an example. The main nonpayment and alternative post-trial files have different facts and must not be combined.
The recording and written materials are educational resources. Use current authority and the facts of a particular matter before applying the discussion in practice. The intended audience is not a determination of CLE eligibility.
Course materials and practice exercise
Materials and study guide
Participant review edition 2 · 2026-10-09 · Quality revision Q1 · 2026-10-12 · T1 episode-scope correction · 2026-10-13 · 71 pages. Available to read, save, or print.
Open NYC Housing Court Explained coursebook (PDF) ↗The 71-page coursebook includes eleven chapters, four substantive faculty profiles, worked rent ledgers, pleading excerpts and a completed emergency application, review questions, reusable practice tools and linked authorities. Follow the main Rivera nonpayment file through the settlement and action ledger; treat Chapter 8’s emergency application as a separate factual branch. The original edition’s primary-law review was dated October 9, 2026; Q1 corrections and reference checks are dated October 12, 2026. All teaching files and assumed outcomes are fictional. Quality revision Q1, October 12, 2026, updates faculty biographies and corrects the written examples and references. Credit and approval status are unchanged. The T1 correction distinguishes the written coursebook’s scope from the recorded episode; legal analysis and page numbering are unchanged.
Coursebook chapters
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- Start with the client and the case — pp. 9–12
- Determine which protections apply — pp. 13–17
- Audit the procedural path — pp. 18–23
- Read the building records correctly — pp. 24–27
- Turn conditions into proof and relief — pp. 28–33
- Resolve the money problem — pp. 34–38
- Negotiate a result the client can perform — pp. 39–44
- Prepare for trial and enforcement — pp. 45–55
- Resolve disputed occupancy without self-help — pp. 56–58
- Put housing policy in its legal context — pp. 59–60
- Complete the Rivera case plan — pp. 61–65
Questions for closer study
- Build the case timeline: identify the tenancy, stated ground for the proceeding, each notice, service evidence, petition, answer and upcoming appearance.
- List documents that could clarify the apartment’s status: lease and renewals, rent history, ownership records, certificate of occupancy, registration and inspection records.
- For a repair dispute, record the conditions, dates, written notice, photographs, inspection results and the remedy the client wants.
- Separate the claimed debt from charges accruing during the case. Identify available payments, assistance applications and the client’s ability to meet a proposed agreement.
- Before evaluating a settlement, write down the client’s housing goal, defenses to investigate, consequences of default and realistic moving or payment dates.
A housing plan supported by papers, proof and realistic terms
Trace the Rivera file from intake through sections 7.5 and 11.5. Reconcile the rent ledger, repair proof, assistance status, proposed settlement and each responsible person’s next action. Study the separate emergency papers in sections 8.6–8.12, then attempt the Patel problem in section 11.7 before reading its reasoned answer. Explain how a different procedural posture or unconfirmed funding changes your advice.
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