Upstate tenants organized to protect people from evictions and demand a systematic solution to the housing crisis caused by COVID-19.
December 2020
CSS Report: ‘Social Housing’ Is Alternative to ‘Vulture’ Investment
Tenants could be protected from sudden rent increases by removing their buildings from the unstable real-estate cycle.
Are There Enough Warehoused Apartments to House City’s Homeless?
Data from CHIP shows enough empty apartments to house all homeless New Yorkers When it comes to New York City’s….
‘Eviction Cliff’ Looms Nationwide If Moratorium and Benefits Expire
Housing agencies estimate that as many as 20 million tenants could face eviction proceedings without action.
New York State Election Results Give Hope to Tenants, Progressives
Democrats gain supermajority in both houses Both houses of the New York State Legislature should be more pro-tenant when their….
Evictions Resume Amid Worsening Pandemic
If the expiring state and federal limits on evictions are not renewed, tens of thousands of additional families will face losing their homes beginning January 3, in the dead of winter and during the worst health crisis this city has seen since 1918.
Harlem Tenants Protest Landlord’s ‘House of Horrors’
Tenants in three Harlem buildings plagued by broken elevators, collapsing ceilings, and infestations of cockroaches and mice dressed as ghouls and goblins to stage a Halloween–themed protest.