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On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue (Sedgwick Houses) in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx.
In 1904, landlords called for a general rent increase of 20-30% starting May 1. In response, tenants organized into tenants unions and started a mass rent strike in the Lower East Side, the first rent strike in New York City. The strike comprised 800 tenement houses wherein 2,000 tenants faced eviction. [1]
The newest New York State anti-eviction laws brought much needed relief to tenants shell-shocked by financial hardships wrought by COVID, but some mom-and-pop landlords worry those measures may ...
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The one major proposal which did not pass was a "good cause" eviction bill, which would have made it far more difficult for landlords to evict tenants from their apartments in the absence of misdeeds by the tenants. [8] [14] The HSTPA rent regulation laws did not expel all exit paths for buildings to remove themselves from regulation though.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a bid by landlord groups to challenge rent stabilization laws in New York City that cap rent hikes and make it harder to ...
The rent strike of 1904 was the first mass rent strike in New York City's history [5] [1] and lasted nearly a month. [1] It was initially organized informally among Jewish immigrant women in the Lower East Side, [ 5 ] who canvassed the neighborhood for support and organized strategy meetings, pickets, and tenants unions . [ 3 ]
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