If you have issues with your landlord, you are probably not alone. If you feel you are being singled out for harassment, including bad maintenance or unfair rent increases, there’s a good chance your neighbors are experiencing the same thing. There’s no need to suffer…
A rather singular group of New Yorkers currently making a bit of a stir in the landlord-tenant universe largely comprises individuals who might have gone by the moniker “geek” in former times. That is, many of them are number crunchers, eminently comfortable with equations, formulae,…
The “endemic character of [its] collapse.” That is the central point underscored in a recent New York Magazine article chronicling the deep and documented woes of the New York City Housing Authority. The NYCHA is charged with operating and maintaining the nation’s largest public housing program.…
The battle lines are drawn. Or seemingly so, in the near wake of New York’s recent state elections and regarding the potential for material housing adjustments to be made across the nation’s largest metro. Concerning that subject matter, there has never been any question concerning…
We preface today’s blog post with a nutshell summary of the key details relevant to New York City’s annual “Heat Season.” That period commences on October 1 each year and runs through May 31. City owners of residential buildings are required to adhere to specified heat…
In an urban metro as diverse and ever-changing as New York City, a deep-dive housing report is unquestionably going to be replete with compelling bits of data. The key bullet points that emerge from a new housing analysis authored by the advocacy group Center for…
The imagery spotlighting an entrenched reality of the New York City housing universe is both stark and vivid. A recent article in a national publication references “predatory developers encircling [tenants’] neighborhoods.” It couples that language by noting a new tool serving as a “preemptive strike”…
You make updates and renovations to your New York City property. Then you slap your tenants with appreciably higher rents. That’s not the way that New York City’s J-51 tax abatement program is intended to work. Rather, the tax breaks passed along to participating landlords…
We noted in a recent blog post the view of the New York Times’ editorial board that affordable housing in NYC is under an onslaught, and for myriad reasons. The paper stresses that change is badly and imminently needed to reverse decades’-long policy enactments that…
A representative for the major New York City development firm Kushner Companies refers to scores of alleged housing violations as innocent “paperwork errors.” City housing officials call them something else. The city’s Departments of Buildings cited the company last week for unlawful conduct aimed at…
They’re a time-honored and seemingly unchangeable mechanism linked with renting an apartment in New York City. “They” are security deposits, and it would be a gross understatement to simply note that they tie up a portion of the assets held by hundreds of thousands of…
Data exist to mark and lend understanding of the turnover rate in the legions of rent-stabilized buildings across New York City. When one complex features notably higher-than-average departures, it can be telling evidence of unusual — even abnormal – circumstances. Consider the story surrounding the…
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