NYLPI works on a variety of housing efforts. We train attorneys, landlords and consumers on the rights of people with disabilities to usable housing. We engage in impact litigation to ensure that new and existing housing is built or retrofitted for accessibility as needed. For example, we co-counselled a case that sued the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) to require them to modify their dwellings and procedures to accommodate tenants and applicants with mobility impairments. NYLPI works to ensure that the application of federal, state and local law ensures as much access and affordability as possible, and for the de-institutionalization of people with disabilities who can live in their communities and the prevention of community residents with disabilities from being institutionalized. We also run a Housing Access Program (HAP), in which we train and provide back-up for one of NYLPI's member firms to represent individuals who seek reasonable accommodations. HAP works to eliminate discriminatory rules and to promote reasonable modifications of housing accommodations. Finally, we work to push for policies that will allow affordable, accessible, housing to be built and provided to those who need it.
