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All requests for assistance are handled through the Housing Hotline. Tenants seeking assistance can reach our Housing Hotline at (518) 436-8997 extension 3. A housing counselor will return calls in the order they are received. We appreciate your patience while we respond to high call volumes. Requests and questions can also be sent to hotline@unitedtenantsalbany.org.

UTA Staff 2017

Advocating at the NYS Capitol on Housing Issues

Leaving For Washington D.C. To Rally For Tenants Rights

Maria At Annual Meeting

Staff Gathering 1993

UTA Founders Maria and Roger Markovics 1970’s

UTA Fundraiser November 2012

1966-UTA-Protests-retaliation-threats-against-tenats

1966 UTA Protests retaliation threats against tenants

1979 UTA Staff

2007 UTA Staff

2012 Annual Meeting

Advocating at the National People’s Action in Washington D.C. 1997

Gail (Pat) Perry Honoree at UTA 40th Annual Meeting

Kirby White Honoree at UTA 40th Annual Meeting

Bishop Howard Hubbard Honoree at UTA 40th Annual Meeting

Staff photo outside UTA office on Hamilton St, 2022

UTA at a power-mapping session

Dorothea, Lovett, Diana, and SUNY at Albany interns at the Right to Counsel rally

Attendees for the UTA and Right to Counsel march & rally

Allie, Senator Neil Breslin, Canyon and Diana

Shatiqua and Marco in Syracuse

Canyon and Shatiqua at a rally in Syracuse

Common Council Member Alfredo Balarin and tenant leader and UTA Board of Directors member Laurie

Tenant Listening Session, 2022

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Financial Assistance and Court Mediation are available for residents of Albany County. Our Hotline Service responds from calls across the state. Persons calling from the New York City area are referred to services within their area. Some of the services UTA provides are limited to the City of Albany.

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Churchill: A kindness that family’s landlord wouldn’t muster

Apr 26, 2019

Tiana Logan was standing outside her family’s Hamilton Street apartment when I handed her the envelope. She looked inside and immediately began to cry. The envelope contained a check for $2,150 from a reader of this column who was moved by the Logan family’s plight and wanted to help.