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This week, the Rent Guidelines Board approved the biggest hike in one-year, rent-stabilized leases of the de Blasio era. Here’s how one Board member explained her ‘no’ vote.

ByLeah Goodridge 1Comment

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Jun 2018

Opinion Uncategorized

CityViews: How Gov. Cuomo Helped My Landlord Raise My Rent

‘Cuomo faces a stark choice: he can either keep doing the bidding of landlords, or he can finally stand up for tenants, helping us stay in New York, the place…

ByNorma Jones 4Comments

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May 2018

NYCHA Opinion

CityViews: NYCHA’s New Leadership Must Rethink Plans to Develop Private Housing

‘NYCHA is pushing the project forward without listening to us and in violation of our rights under federal law.’

ByIsabelle Davis

ByGeraldine Lawrence

ByKaren Leader

ByPaula Segal 3Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness Investigations NYCHA

Group Assisting NYCHA Tenant Leaders has a New Name but a Long History

At-Risk Community Services, the nonprofit advising the Citywide Council of Presidents in its dealings with the mayor, Council and governor, was only founded in November. But its parent organization has…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness Investigations

Nairobi Slum Dwellers Feel Let Down by the ‘Promised Land’

A scheme to replace shanties with newly constructed housing for the poor was undermined by bad economics and a lack of trust.

ByWacera Ngunjiri 2Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Hijacked Buildings and ‘Shock and Awe’ Tactics in Johannesburg’s Low-Income Black Neighborhoods

After apartheid, many Blacks left South Africa’s townships in a search for a better life in the big city. Now they see government, landlords and private-security firms banding together to…

ByDaylin Paul 0Comments

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Apr 2018

Housing and Homelessness Investigations NYCHA

How Bill de Blasio Bought NYCHA

He didn’t break it. But he took responsibility for getting it fixed.

ByJarrett Murphy 3Comments

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Apr 2018

Housing and Homelessness

Much Dread, Some Hope at Inwood Rezoning Community Discussion

Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez’s community meeting on Sunday came midway through the public review procedure through which the Inwood rezoning will be approved or disproved.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 13Comments

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Jan 2018

Opinion

CityViews: How New York Pays for Albany’s Weak Rent Laws

‘Stronger rent laws will not only protect tenants and preserve regulated apartments in Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village and beyond; they will also allow the city’s to target critical preservation resources…

ByOksana Mironova 0Comments

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Nov 2017

Opinion

CityViews: NYC Needs Real Deterrents to Stop Tenant Harassment

We support the Certificate of No Harassment legislation because we believe it will help prevent other tenants from going through the experiences we’ve had.

BySofia Green

ByFelix Urena

ByJames Clark 2Comments

CityViews: Why I Voted for a New York City Rent Freeze

CityViews: How Gov. Cuomo Helped My Landlord Raise My Rent

CityViews: NYCHA’s New Leadership Must Rethink Plans to Develop Private Housing

Group Assisting NYCHA Tenant Leaders has a New Name but a Long History

Nairobi Slum Dwellers Feel Let Down by the ‘Promised Land’

Hijacked Buildings and ‘Shock and Awe’ Tactics in Johannesburg’s Low-Income Black Neighborhoods

How Bill de Blasio Bought NYCHA

Much Dread, Some Hope at Inwood Rezoning Community Discussion

CityViews: How New York Pays for Albany’s Weak Rent Laws

CityViews: NYC Needs Real Deterrents to Stop Tenant Harassment

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