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Last year, marshals served more than 13,000 evictions, up from 5,000 in 2022, and just 268 in 2021, when the pandemic eviction moratorium was still in place. Over the past…

ByPatrick Spauster 6Comments

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Jul 2024

Health Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Despite New Owner’s Promised Upgrades, ‘100% Affordable’ Atlantic Yards Building Endures Hot Water Outages, Broken Door, Even Bees

Only after a local councilmember’s push did landlord Avanath meet with the tenant group at 38 Sixth Ave., but progress has come slowly, and tenants scorned a proposed partial rent…

ByNorman Oder 3Comments

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Jul 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Kingston Made Rent Law History Two Years Ago. That Was the Easy Part.

For tenants in the first upstate city to adopt rent stabilization, benefiting from the law’s basic protections is an uphill battle.

ByEmma Whitford

BySam Mellins 1Comment

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Jun 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth

City Moves to Resurrect Tax Breaks for Renovations, But Housing Stakeholders Are Split

The city’s lawmakers and housing agency seem poised to reintroduce and pass a more affordability-focused J-51 tax program to help fix up apartments—but some housing stakeholders are lukewarm on the…

ByChris Janaro 0Comments

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May 2024

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: New York’s Legislature Must Act to Address Utility Outages in NYCHA

“The warranty of habitability is implied in all New York residential leases, which means that all landlords—including NYCHA—are responsible for making sure apartments are livable and safe, and prolonged gas,…

ByStephen Kpundeh

ByJanhavi Nemawarkar 0Comments

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May 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: Bias Fuels Source of Income Discrimination

“…much of the documented illegal discrimination is based on fears, bias, and stereotypes about the people who possess the rental subsidies and has less to do with the structure of…

ByFred Freiberg 0Comments

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May 2024

Housing and Homelessness Labor News

Contract Deal Poised to End Months-Long Legal Worker Strike

Over 100 unionized workers at Mobilization for Justice could return to work as soon as Wednesday morning, members said.

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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May 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness

Opinion: Albany Has Unfinished Business on Housing

“While increasing the housing supply is critical and has saturated most of the housing conversation, new housing will take years to come online. In the meantime, affordability is still a…

ByJay Martin 0Comments

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May 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice

Try It Out: City Limits’ NYC ‘Good Cause’ Rent Calculator

Tenants who believe they may be covered by New York’s new Good Cause Eviction Law can plug in their current rent to see the maximum rent that would be deemed…

ByEmma Whitford 1Comment

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Apr 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

‘Good Cause’ Negotiations Raise Tricky Question: What’s in a Portfolio?

Viewed in isolation, a proposal to exempt small residential portfolios from new eviction protections could exclude hundreds of thousands of New York City apartments. Perhaps more significantly, this type of…

ByEmma Whitford

ByPatrick Spauster 3Comments

Spiking Evictions Renew Calls to Reform NYC Marshals System

Despite New Owner’s Promised Upgrades, ‘100% Affordable’ Atlantic Yards Building Endures Hot Water Outages, Broken Door, Even Bees

Kingston Made Rent Law History Two Years Ago. That Was the Easy Part.

City Moves to Resurrect Tax Breaks for Renovations, But Housing Stakeholders Are Split

Opinion: New York’s Legislature Must Act to Address Utility Outages in NYCHA

Opinion: Bias Fuels Source of Income Discrimination

Contract Deal Poised to End Months-Long Legal Worker Strike

Opinion: Albany Has Unfinished Business on Housing

Try It Out: City Limits’ NYC ‘Good Cause’ Rent Calculator

‘Good Cause’ Negotiations Raise Tricky Question: What’s in a Portfolio?

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