housing code Archives

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Threats of evictions, poor conditions, and rent hikes amid rapid gentrification in Bushwick have catalyzed numerous newly-formed, or newly-reformed, grassroots tenant groups.

ByHope Pisoni 5Comments

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Oct 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Housing Violations in NYC Jumped 24% This Year. We Mapped Them By Neighborhood.

New York City is responding to more reports of housing code violations that threaten the health and safety of New Yorkers, but not every repair is an easy fix. Violations…

ByPatrick Spauster 8Comments

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May 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

What Will it Take To Remove the Mold From This Washington Heights Apartment?

Tenant attorneys, advocates and policymakers say the delays that Nichols has encountered demonstrate the flaws of the city’s code enforcement program, and the limits of a housing court system that…

ByDavid Brand 10Comments

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Jul 2020

Housing and Homelessness

COVID-19 Hit Hard in Areas With Deep Housing Violations: Report

Housing code violations, rent burdens and mortgage vulnerability were high in some of the areas that saw high coronavirus death rates.

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Oct 2018

Housing and Homelessness

Report: ‘Bad Landlords’ are Few in Number but Destructive in Impact

According to research out today from the Regional Plan Association, what amounts to a handful of bad landlords is responsible for a vast amount of the city’s poor housing and…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Feb 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Building Linked to Rat Disease Had Shown Improvement After City Action

750 Grand Concourse, the Bronx property linked to one of three recent cases of a bacterial infection blamed on rat urine, cut its number of housing-code violations by two thirds…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2016

Podcasts

Max & Murphy: Cracking Down on Bad Buildings

Gotham Gazette and City Limits talk over the housing-policy news of the week, from a slowdown on the Jerome Avenue rezoning, to a ranking of neighborhoods by housing risk, to…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Mar 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Will Court Seize Control of this Troubled Brooklyn Building?

The building at 159 Suydam Street illustrates the difficulties involved in applying tenant-protection policies to certain kinds of buildings with a certain sort of landlord.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2016

Opinion