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NYC tenant makes life living hell for neighbors by running naked through hall, bashing walls with hammer: ‘We’re all terrified’
July 7, 2024
Lais only leaves his apartment at 23-35 Broadway in Astoria to smoke cigarettes, his neighbors say.
NYCHA Steps Up Evictions on Tenants, Paying Marshal Fees
July 7, 2024
In the first three months of 2024, the public housing authority removed more households than it did in all of 2023, as the cash-strapped authority tries to get more money coming in.
New York’s Housing Hell
June 30, 2024
Instead of punishing landlords with inefficiency and uncertainty, housing courts should provide for a fair, predictable, and timely eviction process.
The Daily Dirt: Housing court takes forever. LeFrak lawsuit finally holds it accountable
March 10, 2024
Faster decisions are needed to reduce backlog at dysfunctional hellhole
LeFrak, citing “nightmarish” delays, takes housing court to court
March 3, 2024
Landlord says “rigged” system deprives owners of property rights
‘Hateful’ squatters ‘sabotage’ NYC home with rotting fish and nails in sofa: landlord
Feb. 4, 2024
“You would think that they would feel some type of remorse … but no, they would do things like this just to try to hurt us.”
New York's Broken Housing Court Lets Tenant Stay For Years Without Paying Rent
Dec. 17, 2023
HOUSING POLICY
Why landlords kept unpaid rent plan secret from tenant groups
Dec. 3, 2023
CHIP went solo when it pitched an alternative to housing court
Have Small NYC Multifamily Owners Been Screwed By The System?
Sept. 24, 2023
SPONY members Emily Barlow and Ann Korchak guests on Do You Ever Wonder?
Orgs That Help Tenants Sue Landlords Fear ‘Tone Deaf’ City Contract Changes
Aug. 28, 2023
Nonprofit legal service providers often file group lawsuits that assist tenants fighting landlord harassment across an entire building. But a new solicitation appears to impose limits on this preferred strategy for winning repairs and rent reductions