One tenant of a Wakefield building lost his electric wheelchair to water damage. He used rent money to save for a new chair, and is now being sued by his landlord.
Tenants
Posted inEvictions
NYCHA Sends Eviction Notices to Tenants Who Stopped Paying Rent
Facing a half-billion dollars in rent arrears, the cash-strapped public housing agency has sent 1,250 notices so far.
Posted inRent Guidelines Board
Rent Board Approves 3% Hike for Stabilized Tenants
While the increase is at the lower end of the range the RGB previously had proposed, it’s larger than any hike from the de Blasio years.
Posted inNYCHA
NYCHA Rent Hikes Coming for Tenants Deemed ‘Over Income’
Last week, the Housing Authority sent notices to 290 households with higher income saying they must pay higher rent, and foot the bill for utilities.
Posted inNYCHA
At NYCHA Complex That Suffered Arsenic Scare, Tenants Distrust Toxic-Soil Excavation
Hurricane Sandy recovery work at Manhattan’s Riis Houses kicked up dust from dirt contaminated by a long-ago gas plant, THE CITY found.
Posted inClimate Change
Landlords Will Soon Have to Inform Tenants About Flood Risks
To help renters make better-informed choices, leases must disclose a property’s propensity to flood and whether it suffered flood damage in the past.
Posted inBrooklyn, NYCHA, Tenants, Williamsburg
Unending Raw Sewage Leak Plagues Williamsburg Public Housing Development
NYCHA sends maintenance workers to clean up after each new effusion, but “they’re not hitting the root cause” as sidewalks permanently stained brown force pedestrians to detour into oncoming traffic.
Posted inHow to New York
How to Throw a Block Party in New York City
Just in time for the warm weather, learn how to organize outdoor parties in your neighborhood — it’s not as daunting as you might think.
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 inLandlords, Manhattan, Rent Guidelines Board, Rent Stabilization, Tenants
East Village Tenants Say New Landlord Is Pushing Them Out
Long-time residents say they’re being hit with huge rent increases that have unsettled their lives and forced some of them to leave the building.