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.
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…
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…
Despite little outreach by the RGB, its 2014 hearings displayed a surge of tenant interest. The vote on a rent freeze will say as much about democracy, the author says,…
Tenant organizations and a group of companies linked to a key real-estate operator were back in court last week arguing over the aftermath of a 2005 defamation lawsuit.
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.