Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 12:00am
Village Voice
by Ben Sin
May 8, 2012
Throughout our coverage of evictions and foreclosures these past few months, there's been a giant elephant in the room: Just about everyone one we've reported on has been black or hispanic. Although there is no doubt the housing crisis is affecting minorities in the outer boroughs the most, this very serious problem can be found all over New York City.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 12:00am
BBC News
May 8, 2012
Tenants in east London are being evicted from their homes as landlords attempt to cash in on the Olympics, BBC News has learned.
The housing charity Shelter says it has seen more evidence of landlords acting unscrupulously and evicting people illegally. One estate agent said properties typically rented for £350 per week were being marketed for £6,000 per week. Shelter fears the problem will get worse as the Games approach.
Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 12:00am
New York Times
by C. J. Hughes
May 1, 2012
A panel voted on Tuesday to recommend raising rents on rent-stabilized apartments in New York City by amounts comparable to those approved last year.
By a vote of 5 to 4 at Cooper Union’s Great Hall, the Rent Guidelines Board approved increases of 1.75 percent to 4 percent on one-year leases, and 3.5 percent to 6.75 percent increases on two-year leases.
Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:00am
Note: Tenant attorney James Fishman, in response to this article (below) expressed the following reservations:
The short answer is no, the blacklist isn't over. The OCA (Office of Court Administration) continues to provide a daily electronic feed of all new cases and updates on pending ones. While the feed will not contain the tenant's name (and the addresses were stripped out several years ago) it's not hard to match the index number to the tenant's name via the public access computer. Unless and until OCA stops providing the electronic feed to the data companies it will still be in this. Unfortunately, doing this piecemeal, (stripping the names and addresses) only makes it harder for us to push for complete elimination of the feed.
So, in my view this is just window dressing which gives OCA cover from charges that they're harming tenants. They're still harming tenants. Although the blacklisting problem would not disappear even with the end of the data feed (because the data companies would monopolize the public access computers to get the data) at least it would remove OCA as its prime enabler.
For the article, click here
Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 12:00am
New York Times
by Adam Liptak
April 23, 2012
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of New York City’s rent regulations. As is customary, the court’s order gave no reasons, and there were no noted dissents.
Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 12:00am
Reuters
by Karen Freifeld
April 3, 2012
See decision here
A lower Manhattan apartment complex did not become rent stabilized when the city of New York mistakenly continued to pay tax abatements, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/27/2012 - 12:00am
City's 'Worst Landlord' Investigated for Tax Evasion, Drug Dealing
dnainfo.com
by Jeffy Mays
March 27, 2012
Submitted by admin on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 12:00am
New York Daily News
She hasn't been let back into her apartment despite court order throwing out the eviction
By Erin Durkin
March 25, 2012
