Ellen Davidson is a Staff Attorney in the Law Reform Unit of the Civil Practice Area of the Legal Aid Society. She represents tenants, public housing residents, and Section 8 participants in administrative proceedings and in court. Additionally, she brings affirmative litigation, seeking systemic changes, on behalf of tenants across New York City in state and federal court.  

From 2001-2006 Ellen was a Staff Attorney in the Housing Law Unit of Legal Aid’s Bronx Neighborhood Office where she represented individual tenants in eviction cases in Bronx Housing Court.  Ellen is an expert in federally subsidized housing and the rent stabilization laws.   

She has been a board member of Tenants and Neighbors since 2002.

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