Decades after investors helped Phipps Houses construct apartments for low- and middle-income New Yorkers, they have taken Phipps to court to get out of the state Mitchell-Lama program, and won.
What started as a simple paperwork error several years ago ended in eviction last week for a tenant of one of Hope Community’s affordable apartments in East Harlem.
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