BRONX BUREAU
Courts Need to Adapt to New Rights for Tenants: Report
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Many tenants facing eviction in housing court are unaware of their right to a publicly funded lawyer, Bronx advocacy organizations contend.
council
Council Bill on Commercial Leases in Limbo as Evidence of Vacancy Problem Grows
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Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of SBJSA is what will pass.
NEWS
Property Owners and Advocates for Tenants Clash Over Impacts of New Rent Laws
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A rare discussion between a tenant leader, a real estate industry rep, pro-poor policy analyst and a Corcoran broker exposed divergent rhetoric about the state’s updated rent stabilization laws.
Housing Update: Rep. Velazquez Pushes for Federal Public Housing Funds
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Plus: A deflating sales market in Manhattan and a two-year backlog of rent overcharge complaints.
Homepage Featured
Friction Over Sunset Park Proposal Reflects Deeper Worries About Industrial Land
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A key sticking point in the debate over the proposal is the proposed new treatment of land that had been zoned for heavy industrial uses. That’s a concern in other development hubs around the city as well.
affordability
Rent Calculation Problems Dog Many NYCHA Tenants
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Tenants and advocates say NYCHA’s annual and interim review processes leads to routine overcharges and drags tenants into years-long disputes.
Housing Update: Meet the Organizer Behind the Passage of the Tenant Protection Act
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Plus: how homeless shelters affect property values, a landlord fined for threatening to call ICE
affordability
Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership
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Affordable homeownership was an ingredient in the prescription that brought New York City back from the dead. Now, some experts say, it is homeownership that needs saving in New York.
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Tenants Wanted City to Take Keys to Fire-Scarred Building
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Tenants of a rent-stabilized building testified in Brooklyn housing court after filing a lawsuit against their landlord and the city’s housing department over what they allege were a lack of repairs and enforcement that has prevented them from returning home since an August 2018 fire.
City’s Housing Data Drop: Longer Shelter Stays. More Permanent Housing. NYCHA Rent Collection Lags.
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The 2019 Mayor’s Management Report was full of interesting and esoteric statistics from the city’s various agencies.