EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER STATEMENT ON GOVERNOR CUOMO’S SIGNING OF GROUND BREAKING LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE FORECLOSURE PROCESS AND ADDRESS “ZOMBIE” PROPERTIES

In a victory for communities across New York State that are still struggling to recover from the foreclosure crisis, both houses of the Legislature passed two pieces of legislation that, combined, will have a tangible impact on upstate and Long Island communities still struggling to recover from neighborhood blight caused by the recession and the foreclosure crisis. Today, Governor Cuomo signed these two important pieces of legislation into law