Don’t let the name fool you. The Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council (RBSCC) has its hands in a lot of different places, from economic development and streetscape improvements, providing seniors with hot meals during the holidays, and youth services, to developing new low-income housing throughout North Brooklyn, and of course, volunteering off the clock on local political campaigns.

But the organization’s bread and butter is housing services, including assisting tenants paying higher-than-legal rent or being harassed by their landlords.

And so it went at a tenant rights workshop, which was conducted in the cozy basement den at Northeast Kingdom Monday night, where fifteen people gathered in an intimate setting to learn more about housing law from about half a dozen housing attorneys and organizers.