The Impact of Legal Counsel....NYC

I was astonished while reading this article about the numbers while showing the landlords vs. tenants in New York City. The landlords have an immense advantage being able to afford and supply lawyers for their cases against tenants who don't pay and need to be evicted. 78 percent of landlords have lawyers while onyl 21 percent of the tenants had lawyers in one the studies in Seron's article.

Before reading this article I understood that of course poor people would use lawyers less. It's just a known fact. The group of people Seron researched were from the Housing Court of NYC so they are obviously less advabtaged. I felt like I was being told something I already knew was obvious and true for parts of the article. That's what upset me. New York is an expensive place to live so of course the rate of people being studied can't afford to live, so how would they be able to afford lawyers.

That's where shows its biased and racist roots. The majority of these poverty stricken tenants were minorities and had to represent themselves in course. SO there's the two huge disadvantages they have to voercome. Not being white in court is one. And not being rich and having a lawyer is the second. So how can they stand a chance?