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Tenant Rights in Domestic Violence Cases by Legal Momentum is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Legal Momentum saved a Brooklyn woman from eviction in one of the first cases to use new housing protections in the Violence Against Women Act to help domestic violence victims. Our client, Ms. R.F., has lived in the same apartment in a subsidized (Section 8) housing complex in Brooklyn since 1996 with her three young children. Ms. F. had a relationship with another tenant for four years, and was subject to physical and verbal abuse. Unfortunately, even after the relationship ended in 2000, the ex-boyfriend

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Legal Momentum

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