Sentences with phrase «apartment building tenants»

The apartment building tenants managed to win a lawsuit against the organisation, forcing Trump to rethink his plans.

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When I got started, most of the people I talked to about apartments immediately told me that owning multi-family buildings is a nightmare and that I would have difficulties with tenants at midnight when the plumbing sprang a leak.

We have a new mail delivery person in my apartment building in NYC who decided to send an introductory letter to all the tenants in the building.

He's renovated properties, built new apartments and is attracting corporate tenants — Twitter put its first Michigan office in one of Gilbert's buildings.

This is often an excellent way to acquire larger apartment complexes or commercial buildings, as the owners may want to continue receiving an income but not want the hassle of dealing with tenants.

Co-sponsoring Eggman's bill was the California Solar Energy Industries Association, which notes the challenge of installing solar panels on any multi-unit apartment building is far greater than on a single - family home, especially for a building housing low - income tenants.

Here's to good tenants in your apartment building of self!

They marched, they prayed and they made emotional pleas, but tenants from a low - income complex in Glen Ellyn could not get assurances from village staff that their apartment buildings will be left out of a proposed taxing district for Roosevelt Road.

This week, New York City Housing Authority tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City council members will launch an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in their homes and apartment buildings.

And landlords will now only be able to increase rent for individual apartment improvements one sixtieth, versus one fourtieth, the cost of the improvement, though only in buildings with 36 or more units, something landlords claim will worsen housing conditions for tenants.

Meantime, PIX11 news spoke with three tenant association who say their top concern right now is whether there is lead inside apartment in their buildings.

At 1:30 p.m., de Blasio will visit a tenant in their new affordable apartment at a newly constructed building, and discuss progress made building and protecting affordable apartments across New York City, 275 West 140th St., Manhattan.

The building would provide one -, two - and three - bedroom apartments for tenants from a mix of income brackets, with sliding - scale rents ranging from near - market rate to significantly below.

Rent - regulated tenants living in Toledano's buildings, organized as the Toledano Tenant Coalition, have further alleged that the landlord has arbitrarily denied their lease renewals, ordered them to vacate their apartments, and intimidated them.

A class - action lawsuit has been filed by the Legal Aid Society on behalf of tenants in two Sunset Park apartment buildings who alleged that the landlord discriminated against them and made them prove citizenship before agreeing to renew their leases.

Tenants at the New York City Housing Authority's Carleton Manor apartment building in the Rockaways said they've been deluged by leaks since the work started.

Tenants at a University Avenue apartment building are suing their landlord for dangerous living conditions.

Landlords will also be held accountable by state housing officials for how much they spend to upgrade rent - stabilized apartments before they're allowed to charge tenants for building improvements.

Once a building's abatement expires, a tenant's apartment would continue to be protected by the rent laws until they left.

NYCHA plans to offer private developers a chance to build mixed - income towers on underused parcels to stabilize the agency's finances and create apartments for poor tenants.

He has embraced our core goals of having an independent contractor repair dilapidated NYCHA apartments and buildings, and giving tenants a seat at the table and the jobs they deserve and are entitled to under federal law.

• $ 1.1 million to reconstruct existing buildings near Syracuse University, including Varsity Pizza and Faegans Pub, into a mixed - use property that includes eight floors of residential apartments, two floors of commercial space and tenant parking that will serve students and medical staff at the neighboring complex of academic and medical facilities.

Less drastic, but more surprising, are conditions in an apartment building on E. 162 St. that led to a tenant protest against one of the city's biggest developers and managers of affordable housing.

And she recently she received a letter telling her, work done on the building's roof will incur a charge of $ 14.75 to every tenant in the building, for each room in their apartment.

Now landlords are able to push tenants out of their apartments and some have been able to empty entire buildings to create luxury mansions.

NYCHA tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City Councilmembers launched an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in homes and apartment buildings inside public housing.

They say that when they call investigators on tenants who converted apartments into illegal Airbnb spot, the city Department of Buildings fines the landlord instead.

Wednesday, City Councilman Fernando Cabrera (D - West Bronx) will propose legislation requiring landlords to post a tenant bill of rights in the lobbies of all apartment buildings.

These buildings that received these 421 - a benefits are subject to rent regulation; the apartments must be registered; owners must provide rent - regulated leases to the tenants; and annual rent increases must be limited to what is prescribed by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board and the Rent Stabilization Law.

BROOKLYN — A Crown Heights landlord who left tenants without heat in the winter and exposed kids as young as 6 to toxic amounts of lead dust to get residents out of his 14 - unit apartment building so he could charge more is proof the city's rent laws need to be strengthened, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.

Taylor and seven other tenants finally returned to their rent - controlled apartments in May following a two - year legal battle that ultimately forced 289 Grand St.'s landlord to repair and restore the building.

At 10:30 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will meet a tenant who recently moved into a newly built affordable apartment and make a major affordable housing announcement, 560 Winthrop St., Community Room 2, Brooklyn.

Tenants in a Brooklyn Heights apartment building are suing the family of President Trump's son in law.

They were supposed to induce Glenwood to build affordable apartments — although tenant advocates like Michael McKee are skeptical the poor enjoyed much benefit at all.

We'll have a separate roundup on the whirlwind of Espada stories in just a few minutes — until then, here's some other, non-Espada related news happening in the borough this morning: A group of tenants in Kingsbridge are suing over unlivable conditions in their Heath Avenue apartment building, which has over 900 open violations.

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But as the city's economy recovered, legislators tinkered with the regulations, requiring developers in popular neighborhoods to set aside 20 percent of their apartments for low - and moderate - income tenants in order for the building to qualify for the tax break.

«His position is you have to protect the tenant at all costs — without understanding they're actually going to get hurt,» said RSA president Joseph Strasburg, who argues not allowing rent increases for one million rent - stabilized apartments will leave landlords so broke that buildings fall into disrepair.

The city Buildings Department has uncovered eight illegal apartments in the basement of 750 Grand Concourse in The Bronx — where one tenant was stricken by a rare rat - borne disease...

Under the original de Blasio proposal, MIH would have changed zoning laws citywide to obligate developers to set aside a percentage of apartments for middle and lower - middle class tenants in new buildings.

Pass an ordinance prohibiting the reduction of apartment units in a building and the demolition of units in a building, or only allow it if the units are replaced by affordable apartments that are offered to the displaced tenants.

Housing activists say the hotels — where tourists rent rooms in buildings with permanent tenants — are eating into the city's stock of affordable housing because landlords are converting apartments into hotel rooms.

When Senator Klein learned of the de-regulated apartments at 2160 Matthews Avenue, 1135 Pelham Parkway North, and 1130 and 1540 Pelham Parkway South, his office began working closely with tenants» associations in the buildings, eventually partnering with the Attorney General and HCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU).

«The mayor's unfortunate proposal for the new 421 - a tax subsidy, which was made even worse by Albany, will cost the City far more than the old program while barely increasing the requirement to build affordable apartments, and failing to offer basic protections for many tenants.

Iris Bertoni, a representative of the building's tenant association, was among the tenants of 30 apartments that had to be evacuated from the building on Friday afternoon after the Department of Buildings issued a partial vacate order for the 76 - unit apartment building.

A Crown Heights landlord was arrested in June for not providing heat during the winter and destroying apartment walls in his buildings in an effort to get tenants out so that he could charge higher rents, according to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

While the agreements slightly raised the thresholds for removing an apartment from the rent stabilization program and for passing along the costs of building improvements to tenants, it did not eliminate a landlord's power to yank a unit out of rent control once it becomes unoccupied, a reform Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo both called for.

The lawsuit claims that the company tried to push tenants out of their rent - regulated apartments using tactics like overcharging them on rent, allowing the buildings to fall into disrepair and harassing them.

Even to tenants who never knew his name and could never afford to live in one of his buildings, Mr. Litwin was an unseen power: a voice in the Rent Stabilization Association, the landlord organization that battles tenant groups annually over rent increases, set by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, that may legally be charged in hundreds of thousands of rent - stabilized apartments in the city.

In December 2011, COR was awarded $ 2.4 million from the state to build a 300 - unit apartment complex called Beaver Meadow, which includes 60 units for low - income tenants.