A long-time tenant of this particular shelter explained that NYC was paying to feed us three daily meals and an evening snack.
There were widespread instances of landlords forcing out long-time tenants.
Like the rest of the tenant union organisers, Girón volunteers his time to help this three-year-old group fight to keep long-time tenants in their homes.
Over the decades, Mr. Rolfe has watched and waited as long-time tenants bought their apartments, agreed to take buyouts or simply died off.
The Raths estimate that, after they bought the building for $1.6 million, they spent $1 million — on legal fees and settlements — to remove long-time tenants.
The media have done their bit, too, serving up horror stories of rocketing prices and long-time tenants driven out onto the streets as new landlords—some of them foreigners!—use the cover of a few "improvements" to jack up rents.Why the shift?
Everything was in jeopardy -- the right to live in a city being transformed by unlimited amounts of new dot.com money, with long-time tenants evicted and people working ordinary jobs forced to flee rents they could never imagine paying ("You're no longer wanted here," a speaker told the crowd, and for a moment the sunny day chilled) -- but everything was enclosed in that locked room.
She's been leading many of the protests several times a week at different real estate offices, Google Bus stops and homes where long-time tenants are being evicted.
In addition, the growing affordable housing crisis creates incentives for landlords to evict long-time tenants and convert apartments to capitalize on higher rents.
It has morphed into a giant loophole for professional real estate operatives, allowing them to evade local laws and taxation, evict long-time tenants and convert entire buildings into tourist hotels.
Though every case is different, real estate lawyers, including Stuart M. Saft of Holland & Knight, and Steven R. Wagner of Wagner Davis P.C., say that if an apartment is going to be uninhabitable for a long time, a tenant should be able to break the lease and recover the security deposit.
