Tenants accused Agababian of housing code violations and rent gouging. Now police have charged him with something he could actually be punished for: burglary.
Last week, California’s U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals knocked down that state’s tough public housing drug eviction laws. Advocates say the ruling could have an influence here.
A legal loophole is letting units in one Harlem co-op be sold out from beneath longtime residents who can’t afford to swing with the booming housing market.
By torpedoing the process the city used to hire welfare-to-work crony Maximus, critics may have called into question a slew of upcoming consulting projects.