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Reentry Resource Center - New York

Serving People from Arrest to Reintegration

Three-Quarter House Residents: Know Your Rights (MFY Legal Services Inc.)

  • Organization: MFY Legal Services Inc.
  • Document Type: Training materials
  • Date Created: Monday, March 29, 2010
  • Submitted: Monday, March 29, 2010
  • Attachment(s): PDF

A three-quarter house is a building that rents rooms to single adults.The houses often put four or more people in one room, and call themselves programs, even though they are not recognized or licensed by any government agency.

This guide prepared by MFY Legal Services Inc. provides critical information to three-quarter house (also called transitional or boarding houses) residents about their rights including how to protect themselves from illegal evictions; vacate orders; and maintaining government benefits orders; and maintaining government benefits.