The study was undertaken by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and ActKnowledge at the Center for Human Environments at the City University of New York Graduate Center. "Our study finds that many low-income seniors face eviction each year with no help from an attorney," said Laura K. Abel, Deputy Director at the Brennan Center for Justice. "No one wants to think about what happens to little old ladies facing eviction. But for many, an eviction is a crisis because they live on fixed incomes and have incredible difficulty finding new places to live. And when they do, they often end up far from the supportive services on which they rely.”Approximately 5,000 low-income seniors go before the housing court each year with no assistance from an attorney. The researchers found that about twenty percent of seniors facing eviction live with one or more children under 18 and that ten percent of seniors facing eviction are veterans.