Sentences with phrase «against his council landlord»

A bit like the first time a complaint was laid by a tenant against his council landlord alleging a statutory nuisance under the Public Health Act 1936: the first cheeseburger.

Not exact matches

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.»

It was closed, against the wishes of the pub landlord, the local community and town council, simply to make money - a lot of money - for the London based property company that had bought it with precisely such a purpose in mind.

But City Council members Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson have previously introduced legislation that would afford every New Yorker a lawyer in housing court — where less affluent New Yorkers are often up against better - heeled landlords — that the Independent Budget Office has estimated would cost $ 100 million.

EAST HARLEM — An environmental justice group charges Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has abandoned asthmatic New Yorkers failing to support more stringent regulation against landlords.

Ms. James then met personally downstairs with tenants organizing through the Metropolitan Council on Housing and the Crown Heights Tenant Association against their own landlords.