Sentences with phrase «public housing tenants who»

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.

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.

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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.

He admits that those tenants who have to move back into substandard or public housing suffer, but «it is about the only way we'll survive.

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.

NYCHA tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City Councilmembers launched an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in homes and apartment buildings inside public housing.

The day unfolded as a series of public declarations from the governor and Mayor de Blasio presenting alternative narratives about who was doing the most for public housing tenants.

Ms. Cancel, who works in the office of the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, has picked up endorsements from two local Democratic city councilwomen, Margaret Chin and Rosie Mendez, who have praised her deep roots in the district and her work on tenants» rights issues in public housing.

In Weaver v London and Quadrant HA Ltd [2009] 4 All ER 865, [2009] HLR 40, at [80], Elias LJ felt that the approach adopted by the Court of Appeal in that case — that acts of management were functions of a public nature — extended to all tenants of the trust who are in social housing where the properties were acquired as a result of state grants.

The common wisdom — some of it mine, I had just finished six years on the Real Estate Council — was the public would be better served by licensees who were fully trained in property management, rather than by part - time practitioners who did property management only when a client wanted them to find a tenant for the house just purchased.