Landlords were desperate for action on New York’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which exempts tenants from eviction despite running out of cash, and last week they got it. Under a settlement, ...
Since my election to the New York State Senate, I’ve done my best to tell it straight, given credit where it’s due, and, most importantly, hold Albany accountable for its misuse (and often outright ...
Co-Ops—RPAPL §853 Does Not Protect Shareholders Against Misconduct by Neighboring Shareholders—RPAPL §853 Is "Designed To Safeguard the Rights of Lessees Against Their Lessors"—Court Denied Motion To ...
When New York’s rent relief program launched early last summer, landlords saw a light at the end of the tunnel. For owners June and Lance Margolin, it had been eight months since they’d received a ...
The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of June 2019 (the HSTPA) and the pandemic-related regulations created in 2020 and 2021 cast a wide net across New York fraught with knots, holes, and ...
A Bronx landlord is running afoul of the state’s emergency rental assistance program, say tenants who claim they’re being squeezed by the wealthy property owner. But the landlord contends that’s ...
Torna Browne was working in child care when the pandemic first hit. Things dried up almost immediately — first during the initial lockdown and then as more people kept their children at home long term ...
An under-the-radar tweak to Washington, D.C.'s Emergency Rental Assistance Program passed in 2022 created a loophole that is at the heart of the existential crisis engulfing the District's affordable ...