Brooklyn
Pressured to Move, Low-Income Tenants Resist Buyouts
Ian Marsh |
Advocates say it’s becoming more common for landlords hoping to increase rent rolls to offer four- and five-figure buyouts to tenants.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Tenants Battle Gentrification on Many Fronts
Ian Marsh |
You can debate whether gentrification is good or bad for neighborhoods. But it’s clear that many low-income tenants aren’t simply sitting and waiting to be pushed out of their homes.
Brooklyn
Housing Court Goes on Trial
Ian Marsh |
Advocates who fault the court’s facilities and lack of right to counsel found it guilty on all counts in a hearing at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
Brooklyn
Tenants Form Union to Fight Gentrification
Ian Marsh |
In the struggle to hold on to their places in neighborhoods where rents are rising rapidly, a group in Crown Heights is hoping there’s strength in numbers.
Housing and Homelessness
Churches Become Housing in Bushwick
Ian Marsh |
One former Lutheran church being converted to housing will include affordable units. It’s unclear whether another former house of worship will offer non-market apartments as well.
Brooklyn
Bushwick Landlord Targeted by Tenants
Ian Marsh |
They claim he ripped up kitchens and bathrooms promising repairs that were never delivered.
