Sentences with phrase «housing tenants losing»

It results in social housing tenants losing 14 % of their housing benefit for one spare room; and losing 25 % of their housing benefit if they have two or more spare rooms.

A staggering 80 % of public housing tenants lost heat or hot water this winter.

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Giosmas says she lost more than four months» rent to the tenants who were running what she said was «like a flop house» out of her property.

I was so excited after opening my bible and saw that verse I failed to immediatley grasp the problem i was in.Before long i had a plan to sell my house and buy a piece of land and somehow i lost everything and i am now staying in a squatter camp as a tenant.

The plans mean new tenants will lose the right to live in a council house for life and instead local authorities will be able set a fixed term tenancy of between two and five years.

Disgraced Assemblymember Vito Lopez lost his position as Housing Committee chair after a sexual - harassment scandal last year — but despite opposition from tenant groups, the omnibus property - tax - break bill he tried to push through at the end of the 2012 session became law at the end of January.

«He has shown no willingness to get anything done for tenants in affordable housing, which is why we've lost so much in his tenure and why homelessness has gone up.»

Sen. Espada also congratulates himself on «affordable housing,» a claim sure to enrage tenant advocates who were trying to get him to address vacancy decontrol and other pro-tenant legislation before all hell broke lose in the Capitol.

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.

The Legal Aid Society has also threatened to sue NYCHA unless the agency provides up to $ 15 million in rent refunds to public housing tenants who lost heat during this winter's severe cold temperatures.

In response to de Blasio's plan, Brewer called for an inclusion of even more affordable housing, a reduction of luxury housing included in deals with developers, increased vigilance by HPD to make sure existing affordable housing units are not lost, that there are tenant education clinics (with no income restrictions) in areas where upzoning is proposed.

Silver stood with tenants and other political officials on the steps of City Hall to unveil a report called «The New Housing Emergency,» which shows that the city is losing more than 10,000 rent - protected apartments each year.

A tenant in a mobile home runs far stronger odds of losing the home and everything in it in the event of a tornado than someone in a brick house.

Whether it is your son growing 2 marihuana plants in his room, or your tenant is paying rent with money she earned selling stolen goods, both can result in you losing your house.

Certainly there is a point where the housing rights of tenants in a calibrated system can become so prejudicial to the economic interests of landlords that the economic incentive is lost and the supply of housing suffers.

A tenant in a mobile home runs far stronger odds of losing the home and everything in it in the event of a tornado than someone in a brick house.

Reasons why: - lower returns - I buy for cash flow - considering loan rates I do not care about paying off a 4.8 % loan fixed for 30 years - If you get sued by a tenant then 100 % of the equity could be lost if the house is paid for, versus only 25 % or so in a leveraged home - I like to keep the extra money for reserves or acquiring other rentals

In Tenants» Rights Action Coalition v. Corp. of Delta, B.C. Supreme Court, 1997, a suite was already located in the house, and the new owners installed a half wall to divide the basement into two suites, The owners lost the case.

I have a septic for my own house, and I like the reduced cost - if you know how to take care of a tank it is a really, really cheap system - but trying to get tenants, even good ones, to not be flushing wipes, grease, tampons, etc is a losing battle, and forget about them knowing how to reset a well pump or clear a waterlogged pressure tank.

In the past there has been victims who have lost their house because the tenant has sold it or whatever.

From people in foreclosure, going through a divorce, relocating and can't sell their house, those who own a vacant house they don't want to deal with anymore... to landlords tired of dealing with tenants, people who inherited a house they don't want, good folks who lost their job and just can't afford the payment anymore and can't afford to pay a real estate agent their fees to sell it, to people who owe more on their house than it's worth and listing with an agent just isn't an option.

Like the time I bought a house at a sheriff's sale and then had to fight for months in court to get possession... or all the times I didn't do a full check on tenants before letting them move in, only to lose months of rent when they trashed the place.

The number of lost units is a fraction of the roughly 641,000 rent - controlled apartments in the city, but in a tight market the removals have had an outsized effect, tenant advocates say, eating away at the supply of affordable housing at a time when L.A. has become one of the least affordable cities in the country.