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    City Council Overwhelmingly Passes Tenant Harassment Bills Package

    City Council  •  Tenant Protections  •  Citywide

    Council Member Helen Rosenthal Gets a “High-Five from a Constituent. Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    City Council passes a package of bills intended to strengthen protections for tenants subject to harassment by landlords. Since the mid-2000s and largely due to the housing bubble, predatory equity has become a metastasis on the New York City housing market. The expulsion of both rent stabilized and market-rate tenants is accomplished through means both legal, by abusing technical loopholes in State law, and illegal, by dangerous living conditions and intimidation. (more…)

    Tags : Council Member Antonio Reynoso, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Council Member Mark Levine, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
    Date: 08/11/2017
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    Schneiderman Announces New Legislation to Criminalize Tenant Harassment

    NY Attorney General  •  Tenant Harassment  •  Statewide

    New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaking at New York Law School. Image credit: CityLaw

    Attorney General Schneiderman announces new legislation to crack down on rent regulated tenant harassment. On May 24, 2017, New York State Attorney General Eric. T. Schneiderman introduced the Tenant Protection Act of 2017. The new legislation is aimed at providing a criminal crack down landlords who harass their tenants. The legislation will be sponsored by Senator Liz Krueger and Assembly Member Joseph Lentol, and is another step in the Attorney General’s work regarding this topic. (more…)

    Tags : Assembly Member Joseph Lentol, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Senator Liz Krueger, Tenant Harassment
    Date: 05/29/2017
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    Tenant Harassment Bills Package to be Considered by Committee

    City Council  •  Tenant Protections  •  Citywide

    Chair of the Committee on Housing and Buildings, Council Member Jumaane Williams. Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    City Council Committee to hear testimony on a package of bills intended to strengthen protections for tenants subject to harassment by landlords. Since the mid-2000s and largely due to the housing bubble, predatory equity has become a metastasis on the New York City housing market. The expulsion of both rent stabilized and market-rate tenants is accomplished through means both legal, by abusing technical loopholes in State law, and illegal, by dangerous living conditions and intimidation. (more…)

    Tags : Council Member Antonio Reynoso, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Council Member Margaret Chin, Council Member Mark Levine, Council Member Rosie Mendez, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
    Date: 04/11/2017
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    HPD Announces Settlement Reached with Building Owner Over Harassment and Violations

    Department of Housing Preservation & Development  •  Tenant Rights  •  Manhattan and Brooklyn

    Image Credit: NYC HPD

    The landlord had previously topped the NYC Public Advocate’s Worst Landlord Watchlist. On November 22, 2021, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development announced that a settlement had been reached with Jason Korn, a Brooklyn-based landlord over outstanding building violations and tenant harassment in six buildings in Brooklyn and Manhattan.  (more…)

    Date: 11/30/2021
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    Council Committees Consider Two COVID-19 Tenant Protection Bills

    City Council  •  Housing  •  Citywide

    Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Council Member Robert Cornegy, and Council Member Andrew Cohen at the April 28th Committee public hearing held through Zoom./Image Credit: City Council

    Testimonies at the public hearing revealed concerns about the two bills and their impact on the City’s tenants and landlords. On April 28, 2020, the City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings, and Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing held a joint public hearing on two bills that will provide protection to residential and commercial tenants who are financially impacted by COVID-19. Introduction 1912, sponsored by Council Speaker Corey Johnson, will prohibit court marshals and sheriffs from enforcing evictions and collecting debt for one month after the federal and state moratoriums on evictions are lifted. Introduction 1936, sponsored by Council Member Ritchie Torres, will make it illegal to harass a tenant based on how they were impacted by COVID-19. The bills were proposed to provide financial relief to tenants who have faced COVID-19 related economic losses and to prevent an increase of homelessness and displacement after eviction moratoriums are lifted.

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    Tags : City Council, Council Member Andrew Cohen, Council Member Corey Johnson, Council Member Ritchie Torres, Council Member Robert Cornegy, COVID-19, housing, New York City Commission on Human Rights, tenants
    Date: 05/06/2020
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