Adi Talwar
Contractors squared off with tenants and their allies outside a hearing about rent regulations on May 16 at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.
MCIs can be used to effect necessary repairs on rent-stabilized buildings. And MCIs can be used to get around rent guidelines and permanently hike what tenants pay. In theory, at least, both statements are true.
Kathryn Garcia discussed the current state of repairs, finances and development plans at the housing authority, as well as what it’s like to work with a federal monitor.
When Margaret Thatcher’s plan to sell off public housing to tenants left hundreds of thousands of deteriorating apartments and low-income families behind, the Brits came up with a different approach.
Your weekly update of housing news from around the city.
‘Unfair lending practices are not the only way the industry profits from low-income drivers.’
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