You can debate whether gentrification is good or bad for neighborhoods. But it’s clear that many low-income tenants aren’t simply sitting and waiting to be pushed out of their homes.
Tenants are still suffering at a Bronx building that both the then-Public Advocate’s Worst Landlords List and the city’s Alternative Enforcement Program have had on their radar screens.
A new report finds renters are being priced out of housing across the country—not because of a lack of supply, but because of the inadequacy of our incomes.
In the struggle to hold on to their places in neighborhoods where rents are rising rapidly, a group in Crown Heights is hoping there’s strength in numbers.
For decades housing advocates have hounded negligent property owners. Now there’s increasing focus on the lenders who permit them to buy other peoples’ homes.
7A, once a key enforcement tool, is used less often amid a changed real-estate market and new programs. But it’s still needed as a threat. The question is: Can the…
Tenant complaints usually involve violations of the city’s housing code. Chestnut Holdings buildings posts few of those, but some tenants say there are still serious problems.