COMPTROLLER STRINGER FINDS WIDESPREAD LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN HOUSING COURTS FOR NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING NEW YORKERS

New York, NY – February 24, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Tenants with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) face a myriad of hurdles in housing courts in all five boroughs, including long waits for interpreters and inadequate multi-lingual signage and literature, according to a review of language access issues in our City’s courts system in all five boroughs by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer