Community-based organization only serving specific areas
Arab American Family Support Center
(Separate Website)
The Arab American Family Support address the many social and economic barriers that face Arab-Americans by providing counseling, crisis intervention, emergency services, advocacy, translation, interpretation, services to domestic violence victims, parenting education, language classes, citizenship preparation, and information/referral services for health, education, housing, legal immigration, employment, job-training, and child-care needs.
Chhaya Community Development Corporation
(Separate Website)
Chhaya's mission is to address and advocate for the housing and community development needs of South Asian American communities in New York City regardless of class, caste, country of origin, or religious affiliation.
By: LawHelp NY
Coalition for the Homeless
(Separate Website)
Coalition for the Homeless provides advocacy, youth services, housing, mobile soup kitchen, crisis intervention, voice mail and job training in New York.
Community Dispute Resolution Centers
(Separate Website)
These centers may be able to help you resolve your problem outside of the court system. The centers provide dispute resolution services in every county in New York for appropriate civil, family, and criminal matters.
Fifth Avenue Committee
(Separate Website)
The mission of the Fifth Avenue Committee, Inc. (FAC) is to advance social and economic justice principally by developing and managing affordable housing, creating employment opportunities, organizing residents and workers, providing adult-centered education opportunities, and combating displacement caused by gentrification.
Metropolitan Council on Housing
(Separate Website)
Met Council is a city-wide membership tenant organization. It publishes a monthly newsletter for tenants in English and Spanish and provides alerts and other informations for tenants in New York City.
New Destiny Housing Corp.'s Housing Link Online
(Separate Website)
This site can help survivor's of domestic violence learn about different options for safe and affordable housing in New York City.
New York Urban League - Fair Housing Counseling Project
(Separate Website)
The New York Urban League Fair Housing Counseling Program provides information and assistance to community residents living in Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. Services include information and counseling on housing court procedures, unfair housing practices and housing discrimination. Fair Housing Counselors assist residents through mediation services between landlords and tenants and provide emergency housing services such as housing shelter referrals and assistance with pending evictions.
The Partnership for the Homeless
(Separate Website)
The Partnership for the Homeless provides social and legal services to individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing.
By: LawHelp NY
Community Service Society - Eviction Prevention Program
(Separate Website)
This organization provides information, referrals and advocacy for tenants and homeowners threatened with homelessness. They help apply for a "one-shot deal" or ongoing public assistance to pay rent arrears and advise all applicants on eligibility for "Jiggetts" relief. Clients receive referrals to appropriate legal services, budget and credit counseling, or protective services for adults. Their staff follows up until the eviction or foreclosure has stopped and rent or mortgage arrears are paid.
The Department of Social Services (DSS/HRA)
(Separate Website)
New York's Department of Social Services (DSS/HRA) may be able to help you if you homeless or about to become homeless and can't afford housing.
By: New York OTDA
The Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)
(Separate Website)
The Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) is responsible for supervising programs that provide assistance and support to eligible families and individuals. OTDA is is responsible for supervising local Department of Social Service and Human Resource Administration offices
By: The Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR)
(Separate Website)
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) consists of all the State's major housing and community renewal agencies.
The Division of Housing and Community Renewal
(Separate Website)
DHCR, or the Division of Housing and Community Renewal, is responsible for the supervision, maintenance and development of affordable low- and moderate-income housing in New York State.
City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court
(Separate Website)
The City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court, Inc. is a non-profit coalition that was established in 1981 to address the systemic challenges to justice in New York City's Housing Court. Among other things, the organization has set up information tables in each borough's Housing Court with staff and volunteers to provide information to tenants.
-Please note that City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court has installed a new phone system. The new hotline number is: (212) 962-4795. The Hotline provides information about housing court and housing court cases and provides referrals to charities that can help people pay rent arrears.
Homeless Rights Project Hotline
This hotline provides city-wide support on homeless rights issues.
By: Legal Aid Society
Social service organizations serving different neighborhoods
Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD) Member Organizations
(Separate Website)
This is a list of neighborhod-based organizations that provide assistance to tenants and build low-income houisng.
Forest Hills Community House
(Separate Website)
The Forest Hills Community House is a settlement house that assists, strengthens, and helps improve the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities in Queens.
Los Sures
(Separate Website)
This organization helps tenants in the Williamsburg community to improve their living conditions.
Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center Inc.
(Separate Website)
The Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center, Inc. is a non profit organization committed to empower the community by promoting collective action to demanding social justice and better opportunities for immigrants, low income residents and people of color in West Harlem, a community of traditionally neglected minority population. The center works in the areas of family and domestic violence, housing and environmental justice, education, art, youth issues, and other activities that provide opportunities for community leadership.
By: Lawhelp NY
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Neighbors Helping Neighbors
(Separate Website)
Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Inc. is a community-based financial counseling and economic assistance organization serving homeowners, homebuyers, tenants, landlords and merchants.
**Please Note that the tenant program covers the following zip codes: 11232, 11220; and the homeownership program focuses on 11220, 11232 but is open to all of NYC.
Polish and Slavic Center - Extended Social Services Program
(Separate Website)
The Polish and Slavic Center (PSC) is a non-profit social and cultural services organization that primarily serves the Polish-American and Slavic-American community of New York and New Jersey. The assistance rendered ranges from housing and protective services to health-related and Information and referral services. Typical services included under the category of "Information and Referral" include assisting the client with a range of government entitlement programs as well as personal services request, such as: preparing applications and forms for medicaid; medicare; rent exemption; public welfare; social security; SSI; housing related services; health related services; protective services for adults and translations.
Pratt Area Community Council (PACC)
(Separate Website)
The Pratt Area Community Council (PACC) is a community-based organization committed to working with residents of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. PACC can help you keep your home, especially if you are threatened by foreclosure or default on a loan. PACC also helps seniors with money for emergency repairs.
South Bronx Action Group, Inc
(Separate Website)
As it has for more than three decades, South Bronx Action Group, Inc., (SBAG) provides a wide variety of services to persons concerned with the communities of Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris - commonly known as "the South Bronx". SBAG's mission is focused on tenant related matters such as housing, social services, and citizenship issues. While the focus still remains on tenants, SBAG serves an increasing number of owner-occupied, recently-renovated structures. In such instances, the organization has served as facilitator in Section 8 matters, by assisting owners and tenants in meeting qualification standards; and as mediator in disputes between owner and tenants - both in housing courts and in the community. We make extensive use of community based organizations such as the Citizens Advice Bureau and Bronx Legal Services. We have noted an increase in referrals to us from entities such as the Bronx District Attorney's office, the Victims Services Agency, and elected officials. In many instances, these referrals are of families facing imminent eviction or attempting to escape from domestic violence.
By: Lawhelp NY
St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corp.
(Separate Website)
St. Nick's offers advocacy and counseling on housing issues for both tenants and homeowners in English and Spanish. Its service area is roughly defined as east of Union Avenue, west of Morgan Avenue, north of Flushing Avenue and South of Norman Avenue, a primarily East Williamsburg and Greenpoint area in Brooklyn. Its mission is to preserve and rebuild the neighborhood to the benefit of its low- and moderate-income residents.
Directory of Jiggets/FEPS Providers Attached is a listing of jiggets/FEPS providers in NYC, broken down by boroughs.
By: Legal Aid Society
Human Services Directory for Asian Americans
(Separate Website)
Human Services for Asian Americans is a directory of organizations that provide health and human services to the Asian American community in the New York metropolitan area.
211-Free Access To Health and Human Services Information and Referrals Updated22
(Separate Website)
2-1-1 is the abbreviated dialing code for free access to health and human services information and referral (I &R).
By: United Way
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