Sentence examples for indigent tenants from inspiring English sources
Every study that has looked at the potential costs associated with the provision of counsel to indigent tenants in housing courts, at least in New York City, has estimated that considerable cost savings would follow the provision of this right because fewer families would lose their apartments, become homeless, and enter the shelter system.
Unlike indigent criminal defendants, tenants in housing court have no legal right to government-paid lawyers.
There are, to name just a few, clinics providing free (but supervised!) legal services to prisoners, low-income tenants, indigent defendants, homeowners in foreclosure, immigrants, vets, local small businesses and startup entrepreneurs who are still in school at MIT and Harvard.
Oddly, these and other police travel expenses were charged to the budgets of little-known mayoral agencies that had nothing to do with security, but instead oversaw services to the disabled, indigent criminal defendants and loft tenants.
Their case files were grandparents in child custody disputes, tenants in eviction cases, indigent individuals who nonetheless needed a will, and so on.
The lawyers represent indigent clients in a variety of civil matters, including tenant and debtor cases and domestic relations.
By the 1980s, the city was housing indigents upstairs, while the downstairs tenant was a gay leather bar, reputedly New York's oldest.
"Nothing rhymes with indigent".
'Poor and indigent scholars".
