“In 1890, Jacob Riis photographed and documented the inhumane conditions of tenements in New York City: the lack of light, air, space, and basic sanitation. Today, 132 years later, much of New York City’s housing stock is still bad: unsafe water, broken elevators, mold, lack of heat, roaches, and rats.”
Under current law, state and county prosecutors are bound by statutes of limitations and forced to rely on charges, like grand larceny, that do not take into account the magnitude of the crime, officials say.
The legislation directs the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-based Violence and the Department of Social Services to establish a new fund and dispense modest grants to survivors of domestic violence.
“Often a proxy for racial, disability or family status discrimination, Source of Income (SOI) discrimination prevents voucher holders from accessing housing and undermines the strides that New York City has made investing in rental assistance.”
It’s the latest civil penalty leveled against Jason Korn, the former “Worst Landlord” on the Public Advocate’s annual list of terrible property owners.
Casi 130.000 niños inmigrantes entraron en el sistema de refugios del gobierno de los Estados Unidos en el año fiscal 2022. Al 13 de octubre, el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de los Estados Unidos (HHS por sus siglas en inglés) alojaba a menos de 10.000 menores no acompañados, según cifras de CBS News.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made good on his campaign pledge to create an investigative unit tasked with cracking down on landlords who harass tenants, developers that cheat government subsidy programs and speculators who swipe deeds from small property owners.
El 6 de octubre el presidente Joe Biden proclamó la concesión del indulto por el delito de posesión simple de marihuana a “todos los ciudadanos estadounidenses actuales y los residentes permanentes legales que cometieron el delito de posesión simple de marihuana”, dice el comunicado, dejando por fuera a inmigrantes.
The owners of three buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens are accused in the suit of falsely registering initial rents with the state Division of Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) in order to charge tenants more money than legally permitted at renewal or on new leases.
Según el Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC por sus siglas en inglés), los tres estados con mayor número de detenidos son Texas, 6,996, Louisiana, 3,436, y Arizona, 2,051. “No es de extrañar que los condados de Texas y el sur de California —puntos focales de las detenciones del ICE— fueron donde más aprehensiones se realizaron”, según el informe.
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