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The removal in 2013 of what the government calls the spare room subsidy cuts benefits for social housing tenants with a «spare» room.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) say they do not want the new charges for social housing tenants with a spare room (the so - called «bedroom tax») to discourage people from becoming foster parents.

The removal of the spare - room subsidy has meant a reduction in benefits to social housing tenants with homes deemed larger than necessary.

Not exact matches

Retail tenants are showing strong interest in Newman's $ 30 million new shopping centre, with construction starting this week on the joint venture between BHP Billiton and community charity St Bartholomew's House.

The author, Catherine Jheon, recounted the «nightmare» renovation she and her husband undertook, sinking hundreds of thousands dollars into a «crack house» purchased almost on impulse, with seemingly little to no concern for the low - income tenants who were evicted in the process.

The center also houses an attorney, a technical writer, a prototype - development company and other anchor tenants that provide startups with reduced - rate services.

With the large number of houses on the market in Michigan right now and the difficulty in selling a house, the number of rental units on the market is increasing — probably faster than the pool of potential tenants.

With real estate, owning a good house in a good neighbourhood that is certain to appreciate, and is also easy to rent (e.g. near a university) to good quality tenants has been my strategy.

Although I miss my old house, I certainly don't miss paying $ 23,000 a year in property taxes, another mortgage, dealing with leaks and managing terrible tenants.

With some lenders, you need to provide housing information, i.e. tenant of employer, housing association, living with parents, furnished or unfurnished tenancy, or homeowWith some lenders, you need to provide housing information, i.e. tenant of employer, housing association, living with parents, furnished or unfurnished tenancy, or homeowwith parents, furnished or unfurnished tenancy, or homeowner.

J. Steven Hart's seeking those appointments from his wife's former tenant, Pruitt, shows «the extent to which the special interests providing him with gifts have sought specific favors from EPA in return,» said Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

Origins of such a notion go far back in human history, to primitive days when our remote ancestors thought that some special anima indwelt human bodies; it was given additional support by the teaching of certain of the Greeks, with their insistence on the soul as entirely distinct from, yet temporarily the tenant of, the body — at its most extreme this expressed itself in the saying soma sema, «the body is the prison - house of the soul».

A right to buy a home should not mean that tenants should have a right to take public housing stock with them if and when they choose to leave the tenure.

«Right to Buy landlords» include not only local housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public bodies.

Someone is papering a rent - stabilized housing complex in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood with flyers urging tenants to list their homes on Airbnb, housing advocates told the Daily News.

At 10:30 a.m., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will visit tenants at NYCHA's Albany Houses in Crown Heights with gubernatorial candidate and actress Cynthia Nixon, spotlighting chronic issues facing public housing in Brooklyn, a borough that is home to 99 developments with more than 58,000 apartments, 1414 Bergen St.

Also at noon, the state Senate IDC, with advocates and impacted tenants, will release a bombshell report, «The New Flint,» comparing the lead crisis facing residents of the New York City Housing Authority with the lead crisis that captivated a nation in Flint, Michigan, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

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.

It's vital that all these people are provided with permanent decent housing - that this still hasn't happened is a national disgrace - but it is also vital that attitudes towards all social housing tenants and those in need of housing changes.

The TSA will be consulting with tenants across 5 million households and their landlords - including Local Authorities, ALMOs and housing associations - to develop the new standards framework and implement the new powers granted in the Homes and Regeneration Act.

The building, a former tire factory which was at one point supposed to house tech companies, stood in disuse before GFI bought it in 2008 with plans to rehab the building as mixed - use residential and commercial space, ideally capturing a major City agency as a long - term tenant.

And landlords will now only be able to increase rent for individual apartment improvements one sixtieth, versus one fourtieth, the cost of the improvement, though only in buildings with 36 or more units, something landlords claim will worsen housing conditions for tenants.

Today, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and State Senator Daniel Squadron released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s decision that changes to the Section 8 Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) policy — which could have had severe unintended consequences for NYC Section 8 tenants — will not apply to cities with low vacancy rates, like NYC.

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.

Randy Dillard, an organizer with Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), noted that the city's Right to Counsel law, which provides tenants with free legal assistance in housing court, has provided substantial relief to tenants facing eviction, but said the rent loopholes must be closed to ensure more low - income New Yorkers remain in their apartments.

The 115 - page plan, which was created through coordination with 13 agencies and with input from more than 200 individual stakeholders, outlines more than 50 initiatives that will accelerate affordable construction, protect tenants, and deliver more value from affordable housing investments, including:

In addition to his focus on consumer protection issues, Garodnick said he will continue to push for long - term affordable housing and stability for tenants at Stuyvesent Town and Peter Cooper Village, where he was raised and currenty lives with his wife and young son.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with HCR's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants thanks to the greatest strengthening of the state's rent laws in 30 years, and the creation of HCR's Tenant Protection Unit which proactively audits and investigates landlord wrongdoing and has returned more than 44,000 units to rent regulation.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with other HCR affordable housing programs and the HCR Office of Rent Administration's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants.

She also worked as an adjudicator for the Housing Ombudsman dealing with disputes between landlords and tenants.

«This governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing and it's under his leadership that New York is implementing an unprecedented $ 20 billion anti-homelessness and housing problem, twice strengthened rent protections with Assembly Democrats and created a tenant protection unit that placed more than 6,000 buildings and 61,000 units back under rent stabilization,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

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.

The City will coordinate across all agencies and use every tool at its disposal — from legal action to closer scrutiny of City contracting with bad actors — to protect tenants in rent - regulated housing from landlord harassment and neglect.

With their affordable housing in jeopardy, tenants are hearing mixed messages from legislators and advocates.

Poloncarz also said he expects to gain more headway with his proposed Fair Housing Law, which adds to existing state and federal anti-discrimination legislation to prohibit housing discrimination based on sources of income, which are frequently cited as a pretext for discriminating against prospective tenants and buyers based on race, marital status and disabiHousing Law, which adds to existing state and federal anti-discrimination legislation to prohibit housing discrimination based on sources of income, which are frequently cited as a pretext for discriminating against prospective tenants and buyers based on race, marital status and disabihousing discrimination based on sources of income, which are frequently cited as a pretext for discriminating against prospective tenants and buyers based on race, marital status and disabilities.

They include a reduction of benefit for social housing tenants of working age with spare bedrooms.

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.»

This year we have formed an Affordable Housing Committee, chaired by VID President Erik Coler, that meets regularly with the purpose of protecting rent - stabilized and rent - controlled tenants.

«What we want to do is go to communities where there are sink estates... and agree with those councils, those local people and make sure tenants get good homes, make sure homeowners get rehoused in new houses, that's exactly what we want.»

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.

Most landlords provide decent homes that tenants are happy with, but these rogue landlords are ripping off both renters and the taxpayer by making billions from rent and housing benefit letting out sub-standard homes.

After these breaks were enacted, Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee wrote a column for the Metropolitan Council on Housing's website that the renewal passed the Assembly smoothly after «a clear message from the Speaker that he was pushing this bill through, even though many members were unhappy with pieces of it.»

Tenant Protection Unit Cuomo: The governor's budget recommends $ 4.4 million in funding for the agency he credits with restoring 50,000 units to the affordable housing rolls.

«As a longtime housing advocate, tenant organizer, community activist, I've definitely been boots on the ground and in touch with the voters of the district,» Fernandez said.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with HCR's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants thanks to the greatest strengthening of the State's rent laws in 30 years, and the creation of HCR's Tenant Protection Unit which pro-actively audits and investigates landlord wrongdoing and has returned more than 43,000 units to rent regulation.

After meeting with the mayor and several tenants, Mr. Heastie told reporters he had made the trip «just to let the tenants here know, and the mayor of the City of New York know, that this is going to be our No. 1 priority, to extend and strengthen rent regulation in the City of New York — to partner with the mayor in his vision for affordable housing.»

The head of the NYC Council's Public Housing Committee, Bronx Councilman Richie Torres, will propose a new law requiring NYCHA to clean up all apartments with lead paint instead of waiting for tenants to move out.

At 11 a.m., dozens of of housing advocates and tenants will join with elected officials to announce a «scathing new report that exposes statistical evidence of Airbnb's negative impact on affordable housing in NYC,» Public Advocate Tish James will speak, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

should not mean that tenants should have a right to take public housing stock with them if and when they choose to leave the tenure,» Mr Gregory added.