housing conditions Archives

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Jul 2022

‘It’s Like a Slum’: Supportive Housing Tenants Cope with Violation-Filled Homes. Provider Blames Underfunding

Postgraduate Center for Mental Health has $130 million in two cash reserves and steady funding from the state, but conditions inside the apartments it rents for low-income tenants continue to…

ByDavid Brand 34Comments

16

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

18

Apr 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness

Council Housing Chair Proposes Steeper Fees for Building Owners With Repeat Heat Outages

Bronx Councilmember Pierina Sanchez introduced a bill Thursday that would more than double reinspection fees for landlords who accrue multiple hazard violations within a 12-month period.

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

03

Mar 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness News Podcasts Politics

City Watch: Council’s New Housing Chair Wants Tougher Building Code Enforcement

“Although HPD and DOB are responding quickly to 311 complaints and sending out inspectors, there is a very troubling lag time and delay in terms of closure of these complaints,”…

ByDavid Brand 3Comments

02

Mar 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Dilapidated Apartments, Lousy Landlords Plague NYC’s Sprawling ‘Scattered-Site’ Supportive Housing Network

There are some 16,000 scattered-site supportive housing units across the city, rented and overseen by nonprofits contracted to provide services to tenants. But outdated contracts that trail actual market rents…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

12

Jul 2021

Uncategorized

Formerly Homeless Families Go Two Months Without Gas at Harlem Apartment Complex

The property owner, a company connected to an infamous family of landlords, has yet to begin repairs, and tenants in six apartments say building staff have pressured them to return…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

12

Jul 2019

Housing and Homelessness

Bushwick Tenants Sue to Force City Takeover of ‘Reprehensible’ Building

The building at 299 Troutman Street has eight units with only four units being utilized. The other four units sit burned and empty on the third and fourth floors after…

BySadef Ali Kully 4Comments

‘It’s Like a Slum’: Supportive Housing Tenants Cope with Violation-Filled Homes. Provider Blames Underfunding

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

Council Housing Chair Proposes Steeper Fees for Building Owners With Repeat Heat Outages

City Watch: Council’s New Housing Chair Wants Tougher Building Code Enforcement

Dilapidated Apartments, Lousy Landlords Plague NYC’s Sprawling ‘Scattered-Site’ Supportive Housing Network

Formerly Homeless Families Go Two Months Without Gas at Harlem Apartment Complex

Bushwick Tenants Sue to Force City Takeover of ‘Reprehensible’ Building

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