A staggering 80 % of public
housing tenants lost heat or hot water this winter.
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.
Not exact matches
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.