Homelessness & public health
Challenging congregate shelter placements during COVID
Fisher v. City of New York · Filed October 22, 2020
Member of the plaintiffs’ legal team
Legal Aid lists Goldfein on the team challenging the city’s placement of homeless adults in congregate shelters. The case settled.
What this tells you
Shows experience representing homeless New Yorkers in litigation involving health risks and access to shelter.
Case context & history
The question: How should the city protect homeless people at greater risk of serious illness in shared shelters?
Outcome / stage: Settled
Legal Aid reports that the Department of Homeless Services created interim risk guidelines to identify people at greatest risk and place them in less dense settings. Goldfein acted as a lawyer, not the judge. The source describes the legal team’s work; it does not attribute the entire result to him.
History coverage: Subsequent proceedings and appellate history have not been independently reviewed for this guide.
