‘Brink of collapse’: NYC legal services provider says city owes $20M in backpay

The city owes tens of millions of dollars to the legal nonprofits it relies on to fulfill its promise of free counsel to low-income and elderly New Yorkers facing eviction, landlord harassment and immigration issues.

And, if the city doesn’t pay them by next month, some of those nonprofits say their operations will be thrown into crisis and they’ll have to stop providing services to thousands who are counting on them.