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 lan
Housing Association Bill — a Private Member's Bill which sought to improve the control of
housing association tenants over their lan
housing 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 cond
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 cond
Housing 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 creat
Housing Authority properties, about 140 public
housing tenants creat
housing 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.»