| VA Help Only For Those With
Eviction Proceedings But Stayed in NY Case in
SDNY Shows
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 26 – The US Veterans
Administration will only
provide certain help to
veterans with housing if they
have a formal eviction
proceeding against them, it
emerged on May 26.
But since
eviction proceedings have been
stayed in New York City by the
COVID-19 pandemic, veterans
being constructively evicted
are not being
helped.
This emerged in a
Supervised release proceeding
for veteran Alford Johnson,
held on May 26 before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Richard M. Berman. Inner
City Press covered it.
Johnson lives in a property
owned by his godparents. They
wanted to evict him, but
instead tried through Family
Court. This resulted in an
order of protection, but not
an eviction order.
Recently, it was said on the
record in the proceeding -
other portions of the
proceeding, Inner City Press
is voluntarily not reporting -
the godfather followed Alford
to the store, as it to
instigate an incident.
This precarious housing
situation, however, is not
enough for the VA to help. At
least not yet.
Judge Berman to
his credit asked those on the
call to work on this.
The case is US v. Johnson,
15-cr-288 (Berman).
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