{"id":128020,"date":"2026-02-09T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:28:00","slug":"new-proposed-legislation-would-pause-evictions-during-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128020\/","title":{"rendered":"New proposed legislation would pause evictions during winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City was colder than Antarctica<\/a> this weekend after extreme wind chill dragged the real-feel temperature to 14 degrees below zero. The death toll<\/a> from a prolonged period of frigid weather reached 18 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The life-threatening weather added urgency to the Right to Counsel Coalition\u2019s<\/a> new statewide campaign to pass a winter eviction moratorium in New York State. The legislation would keep tenants in their apartments and out of shelters during the coldest months.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by Assembly member Anna Kelles and Senator Jabari Brisport, the bill (A.10121\/S.9090) would automatically pause carrying out residential evictions<\/a> statewide from November 1st to April 15th.<\/p>\n

Dangerous winter weather is commonplace across New York \u201cand yet, every year, we continue to evict people into it. This is not new, and it is not acceptable,\u201d said Malika Conner, director of the Right to Counsel Coalition\u00a0in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Right to Counsel NYC Coalition\u00a0led the campaign to make it a right for tenants to have a lawyer<\/a> when facing eviction in NYC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith increasingly unpredictable weather\u2014warm one day, freezing the next\u2014evicting someone in the winter still leaves them homeless when the cold hits. A winter moratorium makes clear that winter evictions are a public health and moral crisis, and that protecting lives must come first,\u201d Conner said.<\/p>\n

According to Right to Counsel, with a winter eviction moratorium, courts remain open, landlords can sue, rent is still owed, but marshal evictions would pause during the coldest months.<\/p>\n

Protection from harassment<\/p>\n

The legislation would also protect tenants from harassment and illegal evictions, allow tenants in non-payment cases to remain housed if they resolve their rent arrears during the moratorium period, and require landlords to notify tenants of the winter eviction moratorium in eviction court filings.<\/p>\n

Landlords are currently trying to evict more than 175,000 New Yorkers, while nearly 160,000 people across the state are already unhoused, many living in shelters or on the streets, according to Right to Counsel, citing data from the New York State Office of Court Administration<\/a>\u00a0and a January 2025 report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.<\/a><\/p>\n

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