The cases of Joyce Webster and Janina Davis point to a pattern of the police and prosecutors aiding and abetting landlord abuse of their tenants, particularly those who are Black women.
This is the year New York’s real-estate empires are striking back — with tacit support from Mayor Eric Adams.…
Housing Activists March on Wall St. to Demand Tenants Rights
Tenant power in the city mounts; calls grow for the passage of the Good Cause Eviction bill.
Housing Activists Raise a Ruckus in Albany as State Budget Talks Race to a Finish
Three busloads of activists and organizers from the Housing Justice for All coalition traveled to the state capitol to demand housing policies that benefit the many not the few.
The Robinson-Torain family was on the verge of being thrown out of its home of 70 years when eviction defenders showed up to help.
Homeless New Yorkers Respond to Mayor’s Plan to Boot Them from Subway System
“There’s got to be a better way to handle the situation,” says one homeless man who ended up on the streets following an eviction. “It’s inhumane to not let people sleep in the subway system.”
Out at Home: Freezing Ebbets Field Tenants Denounce Lack of Winter Heat, Bronx Renters Concur
The City’s haphazard enforcement of laws mandating heat and hot water during winter months leaves many tenants shivering and forced to use risky space heaters.
At Brooklyn Housing Court, the Eviction Flood Gates Open
Eviction defenders tabling outside help at-risk tenants learn their rights, use them.
Good-Cause Eviction Tops Tenants’ 2022 Agenda
Proposed law that would give protections to more than 1.6 million NY households gains momentum in Albany.
Eric Adams Embraces Big Real Estate. What’s In It for the Rest of Us?
In recent months, many of the biggest names in Manhattan real estate have joined the multi-million dollar fundraising bandwagon that brought Adams, the would-be “blue-collar mayor,” to Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons.