| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29836 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29836 |
| The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program | |
| Michael T. Cassidy; Janet Currie | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-03-14 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Housing is one of the areas where it may be most critical for poor people to have access to legal representation in civil cases. We use the roll-out of New York City’s Universal Access to Counsel program (UA) to assess the effects of legal representation on tenant outcomes, using detailed address-level housing court data from 2016 to 2019. The program offers free legal representation in housing court to tenants with income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guideline. We find that tenants who gain lawyers are less likely to be subject to possessory judgments, face smaller monetary judgments, are less likely to have eviction warrants issued against them, and are less likely to be evicted. Lawyers have larger effects in poorer places and in those with larger shares of noncitizens. Our results support the idea that legal representation in civil procedures can have important positive impacts on the lives of poor people. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29836 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587509 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael T. Cassidy,Janet Currie. The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program. 2022. |
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