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a major development in housing policy in a city where roughly 90 percent of tenants currently appear in court without an attorney.
The Mayor announced this right to counsel bill, which will provide a legal aid attorney to anyone with an annual income of under $48,000 if they are facing eviction.
As well as 5,000 new units of senior housing targeted to extremely low income seniors and a Mansion Tax, which will be used to fund a rental subsidy for upwards of 25,000 senior households.
You can read more about the big changes here: