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According to New York law, landlords require court intervention in order to evict a tenant who refuses to pay rent. That means New York landlords may have to hire a lawyer and go through a lengthy ...
Failure to provide these may allow the tenant to receive a lower rent. [4] Outside of New York City, the state government determines the maximum rents and rate increases, and owners may periodically apply for increases. In New York City, rent control is based on the Maximum Base Rent system. A maximum allowable rent is established for each unit.
A rent strike in Harlem, New York City, September 1919. A rent strike, sometimes known as a tenants strike or a renters strike, is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants agree to collectively withhold paying some or all of their rent to their landlords en masse until demands are met.
[1] The New York Post wrote in 1988 that "critics of 7A say it is so poorly supervised that incompetent and even corrupt administrators have gotten away with years of mispending a building's rent roll." Their page and a half expose was followed by a quarter page "A success story" about one woman (who) "administers several buildings in the 7A ...
In this era of rapidly increasing housing costs, many renters know the familiar dread when the first of the month is coming and they know they can’t cover the rent. But now’s not the time to ...
New York City's modern rent stabilization system, enacted in 1969, was designed to address a shortage of affordable housing by capping rent increases and curbing the authority of property owners ...
The 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. [2] A housing shortage caused by World War I had exacerbated tenant conditions, with the construction industry being redirected to support the war effort.
The U. S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal contending that New York City's rent control laws are unconstitutional. James and Jeanne Harmon, who own a five-story brownstone ...