Yoselyn Gomez is staring down the barrel of eviction.
A former retail worker who is currently unemployed, the mother of three fell behind on rent for her Bronx apartment last year. On Jan. 5, Gomez received a notice from Ved Parkash, her landlord, to pay up, move out or be forced to leave — in the dead of winter.
Gomez is looking for a job and trying to work out a deal with Parkash, branded NYC’s “worst landlord” in 2015 by the public advocate. She can’t sleep at night, fearing her family will become homeless during the coldest month of the year.
“They want to push us out,” she said. “Where will we go?”
The city’s eviction labyrinth — spanning pre-eviction notices like Gomez’s, court cases, warrants and evictions by city marshals — is entangling tens of thousands of New Yorkers this winter.
While NYC has a unique right-to-shelter mandate for the homeless year-round, evictions can proceed in any season. Tenant advocacy groups are calling for a moratorium on wintertime evictions, as in Austria and Poland.
Last year, New York City housing courts issued 46,227 residential warrants for eviction, according to New York State Unified Court System data provided to The Post.
Parkash Management said it has not filed an eviction case against Gomez. “Parkash … seeks eviction only when other measures have been exhausted and this action is justified — either due to non-payment or lease and housing law violations,” the company said in a statement.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has reduced evictions, signing the nation’s first “right to counsel” law in 2017, providing attorneys for low-income tenants. That effort and statewide pro-tenant measures enacted last June are credited with helping slash the eviction-warrant total 45% since 2015.
Local evictions are concentrated in the Bronx, with 14,788 warrants issued last year, and Brooklyn, with 14,254.
The vast gulf between wages and rents fuels evictions, experts said. Falling disproportionately on low-income people of color, evictions disrupt every aspect of a family’s life.
Factoring in homelessness, hospitalization and lost earnings, the cost of evictions in New York City is estimated at $8,000 per case over the first two years after filing, according to a 2018 study, “The Effects of Evictions on Low-Income Households.”
Using the 2017 warrant data, that works out to about $535 million — a low-end estimate, given that local landlords filed 230,000 eviction cases that year.
Sixty-five percent of New Yorkers live in rentals, and half of New York’s renters shell out over 30% of their income to landlords.
While rents have soared in the Bronx since 2010, median income has not kept pace.
Earlier this month, Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) and the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition hosted a Bronx town hall to encourage activism around expanding access to right-to-counsel, drawing 130 attendees. One spoke about suffering mini-strokes after an eviction. Others consulted with attorneys at a makeshift legal clinic outside the main hall.
Gomez is active in her building’s tenant association and encourages renters to know their rights. “Nobody should be on the street,” she said.
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