Rochester, New York State’s third-largest city, is about to take the first step toward enacting rent stabilization. In late November,….
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City Evictions Drop Under New Rent Laws
The number of eviction cases filed in New York City has fallen by almost half since new tenant protection laws….
Toledano Tenants Tell Private-Equity Firm to Sell Their Buildings
Members of Tenants Taking Control, an organization of tenants in East Village buildings where former landlord Rafael Toledano drove out….
Los planes de vivienda de los candidatos presidenciales demócratas
La vivienda no ha sido una cuestión tan importante como los servicios médicos en la campaña de 2020 por la….
Bronx Tenants Demand Landlord Fix 67 ‘C’ Violations
Tenants from 1060 Sheridan Avenue in the Bronx filed suit in Housing Court November 15 in another attempt to force….
Queens Residents Protest Plan for Mammoth Luxury Development
About 100 people rallied in Queens Nov. 25 to stop the plan to build an enormous luxury development over the….
Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Housing Plans
Housing has not been as big an issue as health care in the campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination,….
Boston Activists Canvass to Revive Rent Control
Hundreds of Boston housing activists spent the afternoon of Sept. 21 knocking on doors in the Roxbury, Chinatown, Mattapan and….
Uphill Battle to Challenge Illegal Apartment Deregulations
David Sewell thought there was something “very suspicious” about his rent when he and his wife, Peggy Vujovich, moved into….
Queens Residents Protest Sunnyside Yards Plan
More than 60 Queens residents protested Sept. 16 at the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s final public meeting on….
California Enacts Limited But Wide-Ranging Rent Caps
California has enacted a law that will limit rent increases for an estimated 8 million tenants, but the measure is….
Cómo impugnar el alquiler
Bajo la Ley de Estabilidad de Vivienda y Protección de Inquilinos (Housing Stability and Inquilino Protection Act, HSTPA) de 2019,….
Los controles de alquileres llegan al norte del estado – otra vez
El finado Warren Anderson, líder de la mayoría republicana en el Senado Estatal de Nueva York desde 1973 hasta 1988,….
Manny Vasquez, 70, Uptown Activist
Manny Vasquez, an extremely active member of the Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association and Northern Manhattan is Not For Sale, died….
How to Challenge Your Rent
Under the 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act, rent-stabilized tenants and those living in apartments that were deregulated by….