Skip to content
The Tenant
  • Campaigns
  • News
  • Our Board
  • Support Us
  • Contact Us

Mario Mazzoni

Chelsea Building
    Post Category
  • Cover Story
  • News Article

Affordable-Housing Programs ‘Designed to Fail’

by Mario Mazzoni March 4, 2019

Many programs that promise “affordable hous-ing” fail to deliver, claimed speakers at a March27 conference at Hunter College. Invitationsto the….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • July 2015

Governor PinoCuomo (cartoon)

by Mario Mazzoni, Michael McKee Issue July 2015

….

Affordable_housing_cartoon_page_1_of_2-736px.jpg
    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • May 2015

Why Rents Are Out Of Control (Cartoon)

by Mario Mazzoni Issue May 2015

….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • January 2015

Courts: Bankruptcy Need Not Mean Eviction

by Mario Mazzoni Issue January 2015

….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • November 2012

Budget Cuts, Bureaucracy Block Families From Rent-Assistance Program

by Mario Mazzoni Issue November 2012

For much of this past summer, numerous families who qualified for one of New York’s only remaining rental-assistance programs were….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • June 2012

Call Us, We Can’t Help: After Cutting Homeless Aid, City Launches $1.5 Million Ad Campaign

by Mario Mazzoni Issue June 2012

“We can help you avoid shelter,” claims an ad campaign launched by New York City’s Department of Homeless Services in….

    Post Category
  • Cover Story
    Issue
  • April 2012

Tenants Rally at Bronx Housing Court for ‘Bill of Rights’ Law

by Mario Mazzoni Issue April 2012

Demanding that the City Council pass the Tenants’ Bill of Rights Law, several dozen people rallied outside Bronx Housing Court….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • July – August 2010

Top State Court OKs Columbia Expansion

by Mario Mazzoni Issue July – August 2010

The New York Court of Appeals on June 24 approved the state’s use of eminent domain to acquire property for….

    Post Category
  • Cover Story
    Issue
  • July – August 2010

Tenants Protest Senate Inaction on Rent Reform Bills

by Mario Mazzoni Issue July – August 2010

Thirteen tenant activists were arrested July 12 in a sit-in protesting state Senate Democrats’ failure to pass pro-tenant legislation this….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • December 2011

Tenant-Blacklist Lawsuit Dropped, Lawyers Plan to Refile It in Federal Court

by Mario Mazzoni Issue December 2011

A lawsuit seeking to end the practice of “tenant blacklisting” was withdrawn in mid-November, though the lawyers who filed it vow….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • October 2011

Judge OKs Aid Cutoff for Homeless Families

by Mario Mazzoni Issue October 2011

On September 13, a state Supreme Court judge gave New York City the go-ahead to cut off rental assistance to….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • November 2011

Suit Seeks End to ‘Tenant Blacklist’

by Mario Mazzoni Issue November 2011

On October 31, lawyers working with the Metropolitan Council on Housing filed a case in New York State Supreme Court….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • March 2011

Se presenta ley sobre la Declaración de los Derechos de Inquilinos en el Concejo Municipal

by Mario Mazzoni Issue March 2011

La Ciudad de Nueva York tiene algunas de las leyes más fuertes de todo el país con respecto a los….

Bronx Councilmember Fernando Cabrera holds an example of the Tenants Bill of Rights at City Hall
    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • March 2011

Tenants’ Bill of Rights Law Introduced in City Council

by Mario Mazzoni Issue March 2011

New York City has some of the strongest tenants’ rights laws in the nation, but what good are they for….

    Post Category
  • News Article
    Issue
  • October 2010

If The ‘Poor Tax’ Was Overturned, Where’s My Refund?

by Mario Mazzoni Issue October 2010

Two state courts have struck down the “poor tax” rent increases set by the city Rent Guidelines Board in 2008….

  • 1
  • 2
  • »

Tenant

News and stories from the front lines of the tenant movement

Met Council Action

Met Council Action is a member-led 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.

Met Council on Housing

For more information on your rights as a tenant, visit the Met Council on Housing.
© 2023 The Tenant is a project of Met Council Action a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.