Thirty-five legal services providers and 59 housing counseling agencies will share in the first $20 million in grants under a state program to aid New Yorkers facing foreclosure, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced yesterday. The exact size of individual grants was withheld pending the signing of contracts. The grants take effect Oct. 1.
The funding represents the first year of a three-year, $60 million foreclosure aid program. Half of the funding will go to groups in New York City ($6.9 million) and on Long Island ($3.1 million), according to the attorney general, areas with the highest incidences of foreclosures.
