Biography

Ellen Davidson is a Staff Attorney in the Law Reform Unit of the Civil Practice Area of the Legal Aid Society. Ellen represents public housing residents and Section 8 participants in administrative proceedings at NYCHA and HPD.  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 nonpayment and holdover proceedings in Bronx Housing Court.