Facing a half-billion dollars in rent arrears, the cash-strapped public housing agency has sent 1,250 notices so far.
Evictions
Posted inTenants
Chinatown Residents Rally for a Good Cause Eviction Law, and Against Ever Higher Rents
Protesters said that small landlords upset with their tenants should be directing their anger at their banks instead.
Posted inHousing
Hochul’s Suburban Development Plan Is Dead, but Adams Keeps Pushing Housing Expansion for NYC
The governor indicated she would back a voucher program and make more money available for NYCHA to cover unpaid rent.
Posted inLegal Aid
Overwhelmed With Cases, Free Housing Lawyers Ask for Four Times the Funding
“We have nonprofits that are stretched too thin, and they are rejecting cases because they’re not getting the resources they need from the city,” said City Councilmember Shaun Abreu.
Posted inDepartment of Social Services
City Struggling to Connect Housing Benefits App to New Yorkers Who Need It Most
After five months, tenants and landlords are still unable to use an application that would streamline access to city-funded rental assistance benefits.
Posted inHousing Court
Tenants’ Friday Night Plans: Testifying at Curiously Timed City Eviction Lawyer Hearing
At a time when most tenants in Housing Court lack an attorney, and lawyers are going on strike, official review of the ‘Right to Counsel’ law won’t start until the work week ends.
Posted inHousing
Harlem Tenants Face Eviction After City Fails to Pay Vouchers
A landlord filed 54 Housing Court cases last week demanding months and even years of unpaid rent. Tenants say the city Department of Social Services didn’t come through on its share of the bill.
Posted inHousing
Dirty Deed: Queens Man Battles Eviction Despite Helping Fed Mortgage Fraud Case
Johnnie Jackson has lived in his family’s St. Albans home for most of his life and owned it for nearly 30 years. First a convicted mortgage scammer took it from him, now a bank is still trying to snatch the property.
Posted inAlbany, Evictions, Rent, Rent Guidelines Board
What Albany Did and Didn’t Do on Rent and Housing This Session
Both ‘good cause’ and a tax break for developers are doomed, and other things tenants should know about what made the cut in the state capital.
Posted inEvictions
When Private Equity Came Knocking, Bronx Renters Were Given Two Options: Buy or Get Out
Additional reporting by Ben Fractenberg Hundreds of tenants at eight Bronx and Manhattan co-op buildings are at-risk of eviction after a private equity firm announced last year that it would not renew their leases and instead sell the units. The tenants, many of whom are low-income families or retirees, were given the option to buy […]