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Fees for appliances like washing machines or air conditioners, legal fees, and other miscellaneous charges are confusing to tenants, often unexplained or unjustified and above all unaffordable.

ByJoseph Cepeda and Erin Markman 0Comments

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May 2015

Tenants’ Voice Lacks Power as NYCHA Faces Crucial Chapter

The Housing Authority’s Tenant Associations are supposed to rally residents to fight for their interests. But while some leaders (like Jonathan Gardenhire, above, the vice president of Smith Houses’ TA)…

ByBatya Ungar-Sargon 4Comments

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May 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Displaced, Dispersed, Disappeared: What Happens to Families Forced Out of Bushwick?

Everyone knows higher rents have forced many families out of their apartments in rapidly gentrifying Bushwick. But no one has bothered to count them or figure out where they went.

ByNeil deMause 4Comments

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Apr 2015

Uncategorized

Update: More Democrats Add Names to Vacancy Decontrol Repeal Bill

Forty-four Assemblymembers now support the bill to end exits from the rent-stabilization program—and recapture thousands of apartments that have already left.

ByJarrett Murphy 5Comments

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Apr 2015

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Tenants Again Sue a Housing Authority Crippled by Federal Cuts

The suit by residents of the Castle Hill Houses is the latest legal action charging NYCHA with failing to adequately maintain its 334 developments, which house some 400,000 New Yorkers.…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Feb 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Landlord Group Sees Little Change Ahead in Rent Laws

With a new Assembly speaker in place, rent regulations seem likely to be renewed without significant changes, Rent Stabilization Association head Joseph Strasburg said in an interview.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2014

Housing and Homelessness

Will Geography of Rent Regs Shape Battle to Save Them?

Most of the lawmakers who’ll vote on whether to renew rent-stabilization don’t have a single regulated tenant in their districts. But even among city lawmakers, the impact of the laws…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2014

Uncategorized

A Troubled Building Eludes City Efforts to Force Fixes

An otherwise successful city program hasn’t been able to get one Bronx landlord to get a troubled building back into acceptable shape.

ByJordan Moss 2Comments

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Oct 2014

Housing and Homelessness

New Tenant Protections: Got Teeth?

The city is doubling the fines for landlords who harass tenants and will publicize the names of property owners who get penalized. The only trouble is penalties are rarely imposed…