Sentences with phrase «habitable housing»

In keeping with their responsibility to provide habitable housing, landlords must pay to exterminate pests, such as bed bugs, that a tenant has not introduced.

Together, these programs serve approximately 14,000 clients each year in matters involving the most basic of human needs: economic security, access to safe and habitable housing, and protection from domestic violence, to name a few.

We strive to help clients transition to safe, habitable housing and recover for their personal injuries and economic losses related to their tenancy.

You also may not be able to ask the tenant to sign waivers to their legal rights such as the right to sue or demand habitable housing.

«Every public housing resident deserves to live in habitable housing that provides them with respect and dignity,» said City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who helped conduct an oversight hearing of NYCHA at the Council.

Not exact matches

Many space enthusiasts got their hopes up earlier this year when scientists discovered TRAPPIST - 1, a star with a collection of seven Earth - sized planets — three of which were in the star's habitable zone and could house life - sustaining liquid water.

In the end, the question is: is our Earth that houses life truly unique, or are there other «habitable» planets out there?

His hot wife Lori (Kate Beckinsale, Wiseman's own hot wife) comments on her hotness at one point in a way that speaks true to every man's insecurity about having married up; and his world, devastated by a chemical war that has left only two habitable places (luckily, neither houses many minorities — and how much more interesting is this movie instantly if the two places left are Japan and Sudan?)

There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135 - year - old house spackled with lichen and gull guano.

There are no finished rooms in the house, and I can not afford to hire someone to do the work to bring the home to a habitable standard.

Scenario 2: Over the same 30 years you do minimal maintenance and spend as little money as possible just to keep the house habitable.

Absalon created «Cellules», which were habitable units designed to house the artist during his moves.

I live now in a house in Queens which was abandoned when we purchased it from HUD (Housing and Urban Development) then fixed up to be habitable.

Tiny houses are already for sale through Amazon, although they're mostly listed under «garden shed» or «gazebo» or utility and storage buildings, and all of them require assembly of the structure and then finishing the interior to make them habitable.

And most closely to our hearts, it'll take one (small) step forward in permitting more affordable and space - conscious dwellings like accessory dwelling units, carriage houses, and habitable basements.

For residents whose first need is meeting rent, the carbon fee and rebate will help keep DC habitable for its residents — in terms of a livable climate and in terms of affordable housing.

To demonstrate the possibilities of a new line of high - performance, 3D printed tiles to build habitable, auxiliary structures in cities where affordable housing is scarce, Archpaper shows how San Francisco - based design startup Emerging Objects created this backyard Cabin of Curiosities which integrates two different kinds of these textured and multifunctional tiles.

Landlords have a responsibility to maintain a habitable environment in a residential property in compliance with local housing codes.

If a kitchen fire forces you out of your apartment, or your upstairs neighbor leaves a faucet running all day and floods your apartment — your policy may cover temporary housing and some other basic expenses until your pad is habitable again.

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also notes that for housing to be «adequate» it must be affordable; culturally adequate; habitable; accessible, especially to marginalised and disadvantaged groups; and located in an area which allows access to employment, health - care, schools, childcare centres and other social facilities.

Among them, he cited a lack of access to lands and loans, municipalities» definitions of minimum habitable structure sizes, and social pressures: «People can get very defensive and social pressures can make the shift to living a simple life in a Tiny House very difficult with some people.

The type of insurance brokers that don't try to quote you interior coverage, or the type of mortgage brokers that don't freak out when you tell them that the house is not habitable.

I am seeing a theme, account for the items that make the house habitable first - roof, foundation, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, windows and then move on the to the rest (new kitchens and baths, flooring, paint, drywall, accent pieces, etc...).

As a landlord, you're responsible for maintaining your properties to be habitable according to specific housing laws.

Likewise, buyers seeking to acquire a fix - and - flip house want to know that you have actually done the repairs properly, making the property a habitable home.

After I rented it I found out that it was not habitable: 14 code violations, rats, it was a former drug sale house, there was loose asbestos in the water heater area by the front door, etc..

Teardowns — these are lots with a house on them that is no longer habitable or perhaps is habitable but due to property values, age of home or other variables is better suited for demolition and new construction Read More >>

Bringing this back to the issue of druggies and other less financially fortunate people not being able to afford nice housing: the very codes that are supposed to promote providing everyone with «habitable» housing are driving home prices up.

«We made the bedroom habitable and painted all the walls cream temporarily, because we'd be living in the house the whole time we were doing it up.»

A single storey house conceived as one wall, which wraps the boundary and then spirals into the site's centre to create a habitable space.