Tenants Are Fighting Eviction Before It Starts
Leave your thoughtsA Certificate of No Harassment could become tenants’ preemptive strike against predatory developers encircling their neighborhoods. Every day in New…
Category: Housing & Environmental Justice
Newly Unveiled Bushwick Community Plan Grapples With Gentrification In A Rapidly Changing Neighborhood
Leave your thoughtsMore than four years in the making, the comprehensive plan for Bushwick, a community-driven effort launched to address the neighborhood’s…
Bushwick Residents March to Block New DeKalb Monolith
Leave your thoughtsFew intersections are more focal for Bushwick residents than the corner of Wyckoff and DeKalb avenues: There’s a post office…
Residentes de Bushwick rechazan rezonificación
Leave your thoughtsNUEVA YORK.- La pertinaz lluvia no detuvo este jueves a por lo menos un centenar de residentes trabajadores y líderes…
Bushwick rezoning request on DeKalb Avenue protested by community, councilman
Leave your thoughtsA councilman representing Bushwick has ordered a building developer to go back to the drawing board with its request to…
NYC Board To Consider Rent Hikes Thursday
Leave your thoughtsNEW YORK, NY — The city’s Rent Guidelines Board will begin considering rent hikes for New York City’s 1 million…
With De Blasio Rezonings, City’s Scarce Industrial Land Becomes Scarcer
Leave your thoughtsTo the De Blasio administration, the Bay Street area in northern Staten Island represents a great opportunity for housing and…
New Head of Zoning Subcommittee Stresses Balanced Growth, Deep Affordability
Leave your thoughtsLast week’s hearing on the Jerome Avenue rezoning in the western Bronx was facilitated by a new member of the…
Brooklyn tenants asking for repairs allegedly harassed, threatened with immigration call
Leave your thoughtsBUSHWICK, Brooklyn (WABC) –Tenants in a building in Brooklyn claim their landlord has failed to make desperately needed repairs. They…
Ridgewood landlord allegedly retaliates against immigrant tenants who reported rights violations
Leave your thoughtsThe city’s Human Rights Commission has charged a Ridgewood landlord for allegedly harassing immigrant tenants in his building — including…