Sentences with phrase «housed tenants over»

While NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was at a Texas music festival peddling his national agenda, Cuomo was quick to jump in on some Big Apple issues that critics say the mayor has sorely neglected — agreeing to meet with public - housing tenants over their heat, mold and lead - paint woes.

Not exact matches

Over a third of adults who live in social housing are aged 55 or older but it's no surprise that recent Ipsos Mori data places perceptions of social tenants as young and unemployed.

In 2006, Thornberry introduced the Housing Association Bill — a Private Member's Bill which sought to improve the control of housing association tenants over their lanHousing Association Bill — a Private Member's Bill which sought to improve the control of housing association tenants over their lanhousing association tenants over their landlords.

«Tonight's vote sends a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Gov. Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate about 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well,» he added.

Under the scheme tenants who have been in a council house over five years receive a 35 % discount, with an additional one per cent for each added year up to a maximum of # 75,000.

The suit was filed in April on behalf of two tenants who say they went without heat during a particularly frigid winter, but Legal Aid is looking to represent any of the approximately 323,000 public housing tenants who were in similar predicaments at some point over the winter.

We have brought stability to our rent - regulated housing stock and fairness to a system that too often favored landlords over tenants.

Superintendent Nana Kumi said in what appears to be a fight over another man, Mercy Nyamekye, who was supposed to be staying happily with her husband who's the Landlord, started picking quarrels with Amina about a new tenant in the house, whose name was only given as Moses.

Tenants are suing to have a monitor imposed over New York's largest slumlord, the city Housing Authority.

Michael McKee, of Tenants PAC, describes the Assembly as having been generally more supportive of his causes than either the Cuomo or the Senate, though he disagrees with claims that landlords weren't the winners in this year's tussles over housing issues, saying, «tenants got screwed again.Tenants PAC, describes the Assembly as having been generally more supportive of his causes than either the Cuomo or the Senate, though he disagrees with claims that landlords weren't the winners in this year's tussles over housing issues, saying, «tenants got screwed again.tenants got screwed again.»

The Inwood resident has been a housing advocate, and signed on as a building inspector with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to assist tenants with taking landlords to court over poor living condhousing advocate, and signed on as a building inspector with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to assist tenants with taking landlords to court over poor living condHousing Preservation and Development to assist tenants with taking landlords to court over poor living conditions.

Per the governor's executive order, the outside party must be chosen in 60 days by a unanimous vote of de Blasio, the City Council speaker and the head of a citywide coalition of tenant presidents, who happen to be suing the mayor's administration over conditions at the housing authority.

The mayor said he is not well - versed yet on the governor's plan but cautioned that the process, which limits his control over an agency in his purview, could slow progress for some 400,000 tenants who live in public housing.

He has publicly championed tenants» rights, rent stabilization and affordable housing over the years, but has also earned a reputation among real estate executives as a pragmatist in a sea of reflexively pro-tenant Assembly members.

Furious over the de Blasio administration's market rate apartment plans for New York City Housing Authority properties, about 140 public housing tenants creatHousing Authority properties, about 140 public housing tenants creathousing tenants created a...

In fifth place this week is a piece which looked at the government's plans to charge higher rents to social housing tenants earning over a certain amount.

Also at 11 a.m., Alliance for Tenant Power tenants and members rally against the renewal of what they desribe as «the 421a tax giveaway or any other subsidies that favors luxury developments over affordable housing,» near One57, 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

At 11 a.m., hundreds of angry tenants and homeless New Yorkers from across state will protest Cuomo's State of the State over his «failed housing policies,» outside the state Capitol, State Street side, Albany.

New York City rents rose faster than inflation over the past three years, continuing a housing squeeze that has been particularly felt by lower - income tenants and shows no signs of abating, new figures from the Census Bureau show.

It is unlikely all of them will be on the ballot at the time of the primary, but of the ones that appeared before us, we should be aware that Rosie Mendez, an attorney, former tenant advocate specializing in housing issues, and District Leader, leads the pack, with the strongest organization and a battery of endorsements by government leaders including Reps. Velázquez & Maloney, Assemblymembers Glick & Sanders, Senators Connor & Krueger, Council Member Christine Quinn and many of the state committee members and district leaders from all over the Lower East Side and the East Side.

LOWER EAST SIDE — Tenants in a sprawling affordable housing complex on the Lower East Side are fighting a proposed 13 percent rent hike that would result in more than $ 3 million in extra rent over two years.

With over a quarter of a million tenants living in overcrowded homes and 2 million on housing waiting lists, we need to end the spare room subsidy and ensure a better use of social housing.

After deploying numerous tools to address persistent problems at this building, we are working with housing advocates and tenants to lodge an action against the landlord to take over operations,» de Blasio said, according to the Post.

She was also grilled over the cold this winter, as four out of five public housing tenants in the city lost heat or hot water as aging boilers broke down.

To court voters and the state's powerful tenant unions, Cuomo has generally sided with tenants over landlords, particularly those in rent - regulated housing, sources said.

The city earlier this year said it was planning to set aside an additional $ 93 million over the next year to provide free legal access in Housing Court to tenants facing eviction.

Councilman Jumaane D. Williams also lashed out at Mr. Cuomo in his praise of the RGB, writing in a statement that the vote sent «a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Governor Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate approximately 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants, but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well.»

He wouldn't weigh in on whether tenant advocates were right to be angry with Mr. Cuomo over rent regulations --» that issue is still being debated right now» — nor on how he thinks a straight extender on 421a for six months will affect his affordable housing plan, again insisting there was «real dialogue» going on and that his focus was on increasing the amount of affordable housing requiring through the tax break.

Councils in «impossible situation» as huge discounts leave doubts over whether council houses sold to tenants can be replaced, reports Anita Pati

WASHINGTON — Travelers Insurance Co. is being sued over allegations it has refused to insure properties that house federally subsidized low - income tenants — and other insurers in Connecticut may have done the same.

If the rental market declines and you can't rent your house for six to 12 months, you don't have a cash buffer to tide you over until you find a new tenant.

That said, this may be a case of inaction leading to the inheritance, as the house is being made over to you as a joint tenant of the property.

Social - housing tenants were the people who could most easily be made to carry the responsibility for energy efficiency because they had little control over their estates.

While it was intended to protect tenants against large rent increases, once introduced, it had the well - observed effect of drying up the stock of rental housing over time, as investment funds that would have been used to build new apartment buildings went into other projects that produced financial returns that were not similarly controlled.

The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has launched judicial review proceedings over proposals to cut housing benefit for private sector tenants on 1 April 2011.

If you don't want to run the risk of renting to families with young children, one legal option is to find enough tenants who are over 55 so that your property can qualify as housing for «older persons.»

Any money that is left over once the landlord has taken the money that the tenant owed him must be paid to the Provincial Treasurer through the local government office of Housing and Consumer Affairs, Department of Municipal Affairs.

I have over 15 years» experience of delivering training to clients on landlord and tenant - related issues, both in - house and externally.

In yet another Facebook lawsuit, the National Fair Housing Alliance filed suit over ad targeting which allowed landlords to discriminate against potential tenants.

First, the government must have long term control over and access to public housing — and therefore responsibility - subject to the privacy of tenants.

Id say if they have been there over 8 months, the tenant probably brought them back to the house with them at some point.

When you take into consideration the first months tenanting fee, renewal fees, and the cost to get a house rent ready, then I think that this would put you over the 4 % and 4 % maintenance and vacancy.

Long story short, our tenant found suggestion to put out peppermint oil on cotton balls all over the house.

Their weekends were spent turning over the house and the wife said she spent 15 hours a week on the phone talking to tenants.

Part of the sales pitch most realtors will use when trying to sell a client on Home Partners is that they have the option to purchase the house they are renting for 5 % above what Home Partners pays for it... But, by the time you account for their above market rents, a sizable initial repair budget (that the tenant / buyer has no control over what Home Partners decides to spend), maintenance and repairs while renting (yes, the tenant will have normal repairs and maintenance costs during their lease added to their purchase price), closing costs, and the company's 5 % fee - you should expect a right to purchase price that is more like 10 - 15 % higher than the original purchase price.

We just went through renovating a cigarette smoker cat spray house (an inherited tenant) and after 3 full scrubbings with TSP, soaking slab and subfloors in vinegar several times over several weeks, then painting subfloors with Kilz, duct cleaning, etc., it finally seems to be resolved.

This encourages tenants to pay the last months rent and turn over the house in good condition so that they can get their large deposit back.

Even if buyers have different preferences over color schemes or other personal elements of a house, upgrades and unique features are more or less still appreciated and often attract an emotional connection from a buyer or tenant.

I guess the same question could be applied to taking over a house that has an open unit and a current tenant, at will or under lease.

«I ask more on a rental application than is asked on a mortgage application,» says Bruno Friia, CPM ®, Lambros Real Estate, Missoula, Mont. «But remember, I may be handing over a $ 150,000 house for a $ 1,000 security deposit — and I have to live with the tenants I choose.»