Sentences with phrase «tenant harassment»

Any type of tenant harassment will not be tolerated.

And when it finally did, the mayor preferred to spend money on more or less connected pet causes like mental health and tenant harassment rather than on directly treating the problem.

To support residents already living in Inwood, the City is taking action through the new Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force, providing free legal representation for tenants, and working with the State to ensure rent - stabilized tenants are not charged unlawful rents.

At 12:30 p.m., NYC Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal moderates a panel on tenant harassment at Pa» lante's Demystifying Housing Conference, Adam Clayton Powell Jr..

«This exhibition is a hostile act towards communities on the front lines fighting tenant harassment, cultural appropriation and erasure,» the Chinatown Art Brigade wrote in an open letter.

Toledano was previously sued in June, 2015 for tenant harassment by rent - regulated residents living in 444 East 13th Street, who alleged that the management company was forcing out longtime tenants with persistent buyout offers, threats and hazardous construction conditions.

I commend the joint efforts of New York's city and state agencies to protect the health and safety of Bronx tenants and I look forward to working together to to combat tenant harassment in New York now and into the future.»

At 9 a.m., NYC Councilman Brad Lander and the Coalition Against Tenant Harassment rally in support of the «Certification of No Harassment» legislation, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The legislation introduced dovetails with the launch a new team that is designed to strengthen resources that combat tenant harassment as well as a tenant protection task force.

Brewer also argues that HPD needs to commit to a permanent strategy to curb tenant harassment.

Stringer wants to see more work done with not - for - profit developers, the spokesperson said, and to add anti-displacement zoning to undercut tenant harassment.

This initiative, along with the creation of the joint Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force, is one TPU's many multi-agency enforcement actions that protect tenants from harassment.

The Housing Rights Initiative was created because tenant harassment and illegal deregulation are increasingly widespread in New York City.

Those include rezonings, new regulations for self - storage and for the department of Housing Preservation and Development to create a data portal for New Yorkers to see all properties owned by individual owners along with violations and tenant harassment data for each building.

It also passed a bill asking HPD to do something perhaps more ambitious: create a comprehensive website for New Yorkers to get up to date information on every city landowner, the buildings they own and information about tenant harassment and building violations at each property.

The TPU, as a member of the City / State Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force, moved proactively to help the tenants in these buildings and returned over 80 units that were improperly de-regulated.

Last week, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman proposed legislation that would further criminalize tenant harassment.

By George Capsis «Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is giving a press conference on tenant harassment and you got ta go,» demanded Nelly Godfrey who lost her Christopher Street restaurant to Steve Croman — the West Village landlord who is now facing prison time and is easily vying for the number one spot as «The Worst Landlord in New

This exhibition is a hostile act towards communities on the front lines fighting tenant harassment, cultural appropriation and erasure.

Also at 10 a.m., tenants and community organizations call on de Blasio to fulfil his pledge to pass «certificate of no harassment» legislation, and announce the formation of the Coalition Against Tenant Harassment, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Judi Kende, vice president and New York market leader at Enterprise Community Partners, urges the New York State Legislature to strengthen rent laws and provide enough funds for enforcement efforts, with the goal of preventing affordable units from leaving the rent stabilization system and curbing tenant harassment.

The administration is also providing a $ 1 billion development fund for parks, transit and community facilities tied to rezonings, as well as additional legal aid for tenant harassment, officials said.

At 1 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a bill signing ceremony for a package of measures cracking down on tenant harassment, Hargrave Senior Center, 111 West 71ST St., Manhattan.

BY MIRANDA KATZ At the behest of eight elected officials, the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will test 20 buildings in the East Village for lead, all of which are owned by Raphael Toledano, a landlord who's been repeatedly accused of tenant harassment.

As a result of a TPU criminal referral to the NYS AG's office, the Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force made its first arrest and took swift action to confront the alleged unlawful actions by a Brooklyn landlord.

Another law will broaden the definition of «tenant harassment» to include repeatedly bothering residents before 9 a.m. or after 5 p.m., to prevent persistent harassment and buyout offers at inconvenient hours of the day.

Assemblyman Keith Wright, a Harlem Democrat who chairs the chamber's housing committee, said he, too, has been a victim of tenant harassment.

The case is the first prosecution for the multi-agency taskforce that was formed in February to respond to tenant harassment complaints.

An investigation by the Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force allegedly found that the two men shut off heat to rent regulated apartments even as outside temperatures dropped below freezing, illegally destroyed interior walls and common areas, and exposed tenants to 88 times the legal amount of lead dust.

The Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force will investigate harassment complaints against landlords.

Schneiderman's new teams are in addition to the Cuomo administration's Tenant Protection Unit, which also investigates cases of tenant harassment.

«By investigating fraud, deceptive lending practices, and tenant harassment, our office intends to curb this corrosive behavior and all who enable it,» said Special Counsel John Spagna, who will head the enforcement unit.

Under Schneiderman's plan, the attorney general's existing Real Estate Finance Bureau, which currently polices real estate transactions, will be tasked to investigate cases of tenant harassment and other civil housing frauds.

Schneiderman on Thursday is expected to announce the creation of new teams of investigators to handle cases of tenant harassment, deceptive lending practices and other housing - related abuses.

Any such speculation would be futile and possibly actionable as tenant harassment.

Referrals on topics such as affordable housing, foreclosures, and tenant harassment will also be available.

Fines were also strengthened for landlords found guilty of any form of tenant harassment — regardless of whether their actions were intended to drive tenants from their homes — from $ 1,000 to $ 2,000 for the first offense, and $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 for subsequent offenses.

«Tenant harassment is all too rampant.

«In no way should REBNY's opposition be construed as minimizing legitimate cases of tenant harassment but this bill would turn the most basic American concept of justice — «innocent until proven guilty» — on its head.»

«Tenant harassment is wrong and so is denying the basic American principle of «innocent until proven guilty,»» REBNY President John Banks said in a statement.

This rent control deregulation offers landlords incentives to raise rents to reach this threshold by whatever means necessary, including unsubstantiated improvements to common areas (major capital improvements), apartment renovations, and tenant harassment.

«It's a lot of underperforming buildings, where basically landlords want to take advantage of market forces and you have a lot of MCI abuses, vacancy bonus abuses, tenant harassment, and you have landlords who are filing a lot of false instruments in city agencies.

Members of the City Council are pushing a package of bills that would expand the definition of tenant harassment and increase penalties on shady landlords.

The meeting was organized by Senator Klein's office in the latest attempt to address and resolve outstanding resident concerns at the properties that range from reports of tenant harassment, potential violation of rent stabilization laws, massive construction projects impairing quality of life, lack of elevator service for the disabled, and no access to laundry facilities.

In a statement on October 2, CAB urged the gallery to close the show, writing, «This exhibition is a hostile act towards communities on the front lines fighting tenant harassment, cultural appropriation and erasure.