NY Legislature Moves to Add Funding for Foreclosure Legal Service Providers

Both the Assembly and the Senate included the requested $20 million for those organizations in their individual state budget proposals this week, signaling their support for the funding after it was left out of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget plan in January.

March 14, 2019 at 02:57 PM

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Dan M. Clark

New York state lawmakers formally moved Thursday to replenish funding this week for dozens of organizations that offer free housing and foreclosure prevention legal services for low-income individuals.

It's the first time in recent years lawmakers had to come up with state money for those organizations after they were largely funded by an infusion of cash from settlement dollars obtained by the New York Attorney General's Office. They were previously funded and managed through New York State Homes and Community Renewal, the state's housing agency, through 2011.

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