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What we particularly noticed was that for the first time the tenants of the place were actually speaking to each other.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg signed a bill into law on Thursday that for the first time gives tenants the right to sue their landlords in Housing Court for using threats and other forms of harassment to force them out.
The following year appellate courts in New York State for the first time accepted tenants' arguments in two cases that emotional support was a viable reason to keep a pet despite a building's no-pets policy.
Livin Housing is working with 15 partners to reach 20,000 young and first time social housing tenants across County Durham.
Now, 76 years after it was built, the first full-time tenants are moving in to the so-called "Colossus of Rügen".
Its first full-time tenants were the USC and UCLA basketball teams, but the Kings, Lakers and Clippers all called it home, as did the ABA's L.A. Stars and the L.A. Sharks of the World Hockey Assn.
The nonbeneficiaries are, he said, "a growing number of new households with large families entering the market for the first time, having to pay, as unprotected tenants, higher rents than the protected small households".
Visiting the Prince George Hotel — an elegant early 20th century hotel on East 28th Street that sank into squalor and became the city's largest welfare hotel and was later transformed into permanent residences for the homeless and low-income tenants — for the first time was a defining moment in his recovery, Mr. Pass said.
Jack L. Lester, a lawyer for the tenants, said the ruling marked the first time a court had found that environmental regulations might be used to protect tenants under the state's rent-stabilization law.
