COVID-19
Emergency Eviction & Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020
On December 28, 2020, Governor Cuomo signed into law the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (L. 2020, c. 381; “Act”). The Act provides immediate relief to respondents and defendants in residential eviction proceedings and foreclosure actions in New York State, including, among other things:
- Staying pending residential eviction proceedings (“Proceedings”) and residential real property mortgage foreclosure actions (“Actions”) for sixty days.
- Staying Proceedings and Actions filed within thirty days of December 28, 2020 for sixty days.
- Publishing form “Hardship Declarations” to be used by tenant-respondents in eviction matters and defendant-mortgagors in residential foreclosure actions in reporting financial hardship during or due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Staying Proceedings and Actions until at least May 1, 2021 in Proceedings and Actions where a tenant-respondent or defendant-mortgagor submits a completed Hardship Declaration.
Important Information:
- The COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020
- Administrative Order AO/340/2020 (addressing eviction proceedings).
- Administrative Order AO/341/20 (addressing foreclosure actions)
- Memorandum of Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence K. Marks, dated December 30, 2020 (addressing eviction proceedings).
- Memorandum of Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence K. Marks, dated December 31, 2020 (addressing foreclosure actions).
- CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES PROVIDERS FOR HOUSING MATTERS
- Foreclosure cases (Excel listing of county and index number only) in which Hardship Declarations were mailed to a defendant at 99 Washington Avenue, Albany (Department of State), but returned by the U.S. Post Service.
- SENDING ADDITIONAL COPIES OF RESIDENTIAL EVICTION HARDSHIP DECLARATIONS TO THE COURTS OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY BY EMAILo
Hardship Declarations:
(When Signed and submitted by residential tenants and residential homeowners/mortgagors, requires their cases to be temporarily delayed (or not started until at least May 1, 2021).
ENGLISH
Eviction Hardship Declaration
Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
SPANISH
AVISO AL INQUILINO - Eviction Hardship Declaration
AVISO AL DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
ALBANIAN
NJOFTIM PËR QIRAMARRËSIT - Eviction Hardship Declaration
NJOFTIM DREJTUAR DEBITORIT - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
ARABIC
إشعار المستأجر - Eviction Hardship Declaration
إشعار الراهن - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
BENGALI
ভাড়াটেদের নোটিশ - Eviction Hardship Declaration
মর্টগেজ গ্রহীতার প্রতি বিজ্ঞপ্তি - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
BURMESE
ဒုကၡအခက္အခဲေၾကာင့္ႏွင္ထုတ္ခံရျခင္း ေၾကညာခ်က္ - Eviction Hardship Declaration
ဒုကၡအခက္အခဲေၾကာင့္အိမ္သိမ္းခံရျခင္း ေၾကညာခ်က - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
CHINESE (SIMPLIFIED)
《承租人通知》 - Eviction Hardship Declaration
《抵押人通知》 - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
CHINESE (TRADITIONAL)
承租人通知 - Eviction Hardship Declaration
抵押人通知 - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
FRENCH
AVIS AUX LOCATAIRES - Eviction Hardship Declaration
AVIS AU PRETEUR HYPOTECAIRE - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
HAITIAN-CREOLE
AVI A LOKATÈ - Eviction Hardship Declaration
AVI A IPOTEKÈ - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
KAREN
Eviction Hardship Declaration
Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
KOREAN
임차인에게 고지함 - Eviction Hardship Declaration
저당권 설정자에게 고지함 - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
NEPALI
बहालवालालाई सूचना - Eviction Hardship Declaration
मोर्टगेजरलाई सूचना - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
POLISH
Zawiadomienie dla Najemcy - Eviction Hardship Declaration
Zawiadomienie dla Dłużnika Hipotecznego - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
PUNJABI-EASTERN
ਕਿਰਾਏਦਾਰ ੰਨੂ ਨੋ ਕਿਸ - Eviction Hardship Declaration
ਗਿਰਵੀਨਾਮਾ ਦਾਰ ੰਨੂ ਨੋ ਗਿਸ - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
PUNJABI-WESTERN
کرائے دار لئی نوٹس - Eviction Hardship Declaration
مور گيج تے قرضہ لين والے لئی نوٹس - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
RUSSIAN
УВЕДОМЛЕНИЕ АРЕНДАТОРУ - Eviction Hardship Declaration
УВЕДОМЛЕНИЕ ЗАЁМЩИКУ ПО ИПОТЕКЕ - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
URDU
کرائے دار کو نوٹس: - Eviction Hardship Declaration
:ئیداد رہن رکھنے والے کو نوٹساج - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
VIETNAMESE
THÔNG BÁO CHO NGƯỜI THUÊ NHÀ - Eviction Hardship Declaration
THÔNG BÁO CHO NGƯỜI THẾ CHẤP - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration
WOLOF
YËGLE BUÑU JAGLEEL LOKATEER BI - Eviction Hardship Declaration
YËGLE BUÑU JAGLEEL IPOTEKEER BI - Foreclosure Hardship Declaration