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The ‘fairy godmother of housing court’: Meet the advocates troubleshooting the voucher system in Brooklyn Housing Court

Apr 22, 2026

In Brooklyn’s Housing Court, the Eviction Diversion Initiative helps tenants avoid evictions due to administrative errors with their housing subsidies. As the program expands to reach housing courts in seven locations across New York, its Brooklyn office bridges gaps between a patchwork of agencies that often leave tenants struggling to secure stable housing. As Priscila Auffant of our Eviction Diversion Initiative team told amNY, “EDI has kind of been the fairy godmother in housing court.”

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