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Tenants

Posted inRent Guidelines Board

Rent Board Approves 3% Hike for Stabilized Tenants

June 21, 2023, 8:59 p.m.June 21, 2023, 10:14 p.m.
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’

June 15, 2023, 1:38 p.m.June 15, 2023, 7:44 p.m.
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

June 12, 2023, 5:00 a.m.June 11, 2023, 2:02 p.m.
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

May 30, 2023, 5:00 a.m.March 14, 2024, 2:23 p.m.
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 inWilliamsburg

Unending Raw Sewage Leak Plagues Williamsburg Public Housing Development

May 4, 2023, 4:28 p.m.May 4, 2023, 4:28 p.m.
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

April 25, 2023, 5:00 a.m.May 2, 2024, 1:53 p.m.
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.
Chinatown residents rally outside Manhattan Civil Court in favor of protecting affordable rents, April 19, 2023.
Posted inTenants

Chinatown Residents Rally for a Good Cause Eviction Law, and Against Ever Higher Rents

April 19, 2023, 7:36 p.m.April 20, 2023, 4:05 p.m.
Protesters said that small landlords upset with their tenants should be directing their anger at their banks instead.
Posted inTenants

East Village Tenants Say New Landlord Is Pushing Them Out

March 31, 2023, 11:38 a.m.March 31, 2023, 1:29 p.m.
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.
Posted inHousing Court

Tenants’ Friday Night Plans: Testifying at Curiously Timed City Eviction Lawyer Hearing

Feb. 21, 2023, 5:05 a.m.Feb. 23, 2023, 9:57 a.m.
At a time when most tenants in Housing Court lack an attorney, and lawyers are going on strike, official review of the ‘Right to Counsel’ law won’t start until the work week ends.
Posted inTenants

Mitchell-Lama Tenants in Far Rockaway Sue Landlord for Neglect and Harassment

Feb. 15, 2023, 5:05 a.m.Feb. 15, 2023, 11:05 a.m.
A $29 million state loan was supposed to help fund the rehabilitation of two Mitchell-Lama rental buildings, but tenants say living conditions remain dire.

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