Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance
The 8 Council members with the most Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance cases in the preserved 2016 dataset.
CallNYC is a 2016 civic-data archive
Jamie Burkart built CallNYC in a 24-hour sprint from NYC Council’s daily, anonymized CouncilStat data. This preserves the experiment.
NYC Open Data labels Council casework through early 2025 as historical. A 2026 Council posting names Council Connect as its Council-wide constituent-service database; our Aug. 13, 2026 catalog check found no current export comparable to NYC’s daily 311 feed. Rankings are historical.
Restore current public data
Ask NYC Council and NYC Open Data for a documented, privacy-protected Council Connect feed.
Restore constituent services data publishing Opens a draft for your review.
#1
Helen Rosenthal6th District
Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance About 3 annualized cases in the 2016 snapshot
Top Services in the Snapshot Lease Issue Landlord/Managing Agent Issues SCRIE Seeking an affordable housing/apartment Eviction
#2
Jimmy Van Bramer26th District
Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance About 3 annualized cases in the 2016 snapshot
Top Services in the Snapshot Land Use: Application/Process Libraries Carriage Horses NYCHA Building Maintenance Parking Permits Graffiti HPD Housing Lottery
#3
Margaret Chin1st District
Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance About 1 annualized case in the 2016 snapshot
Top Services in the Snapshot NYCHA Building Maintenance Heat/Hot Water
#4
Ben Kallos5th District
Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance About 1 annualized case in the 2016 snapshot
Top Services in the Snapshot Construction General Seeking an affordable housing/apartment Landlord/Managing Agent Issues Noise - Construction Buses Eviction Heat/Hot Water
#5
Mark Levine7th District
Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance About 1 annualized case in the 2016 snapshot
Top Services in the Snapshot Eviction U.S. Citizenship Seeking an affordable housing/apartment Landlord/Managing Agent Issues NYCHA New Application NYCHA Building Maintenance Heat/Hot Water
#6
Maria del Carmen Arroyo17th District
Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance About 1 annualized case in the 2016 snapshot
Top Services in the Snapshot Seeking an affordable housing/apartment Seeking Employment
#7
Robert Cornegy36th District
Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance About 1 annualized case in the 2016 snapshot
Top Services in the Snapshot Eviction
#8
Carlos Menchaca38th District
Request for Housing Related Legal Assistance About 1 annualized case in the 2016 snapshot
Top Services in the Snapshot City Services and Benefits U.S. Citizenship Green Card Eviction