A holdover avoided paying rent for 2 years + got paid to leave.

The unit is not rent stabilized nor controlled, yet she was able to stay rent free, and had her legal bills paid in full by Queens Legal Services. Judge stipulates that owner is required to pay $9,000 “relocation assistance” and that tenant could stay another 4 months rent-free. The evicted tenant lived nearby. Another story…

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Asylum Seekers in NY are moving into gyms, selling in streets and subways…

STOP!!! Evicting homeless US citizens is wrong! Housing them in school gyms is wrong. Asylum process takes years! They would have to stay longer than it take students to graduate. Most of them will disappear in the Department of Homeland Security system increasing the number of undocumented population in the United States. CBP One app…

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Lead-based Paint: Local Law 1 of 2004; Local Law 66 of 2019; and Local Law 31 of 2020…

NYC HPD Page. Local Law 66/2019 changed lead paint definition threshold from 1 mg/cm2 to 0.5 mg/cm2. XRF instrument is required. Conducting XRF testing in all units is required and must be documented by all property owners of pre-1960 rental housing, and in all housing built 1960-1978 where the owner has knowledge of lead-based paint,…

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True Cost of Living Report is NOT True Cost of Living NYC Charter Amendment. Confused?

On November 8, 2022. Voters adopted Ballot Proposal 4, which (r)equire the City to create a “true cost of living” measure to track the actual cost in New York City of meeting essential needs, including housing, food, childcare, transportation, and other necessary costs, and without considering public, private, or informal assistance, in order to inform…

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