With others, he pretended to be interested in property they were selling or renting, officials said.
Last year, more than 360,000 Housing Court cases were filed in the city, the majority for nonpayment of rent, court officials said.
But six women went too far and were arrested in a particularly imaginative scheme for seeking the government's help with rent payments, officials said on Tuesday.
The investigators are trying to determine if Community Law, in collaboration with some landlords, falsified applications to the state to arrange extra welfare payments to landlords to cover recipients' past-due rent, two officials close to the inquiry said.
Though the city has always had to deal with a number of public housing tenants who are chronically late with their rent, housing officials are now confronting a significant rise in longtime tenants who never before missed a payment but are falling behind, in many cases because they have lost their jobs.
Because of dynamic information rents, the official may induce one type of the borrower to default.
For three decades these parcels have been locked in the courts, prey to rent-seeking officials.
Yet it has left him exposed to the predators of the informal economy: rent-seeking officials.
Copies of the full-length film, which lasts 17 minutes, will go out nationwide for supporters to view on March 15 at house parties, union halls, campuses and perhaps even some theaters if they can be rented, campaign officials said.
Inside they found not cash but blank pieces of paper, on which he asked them each to write the names of three rent-seeking officials hurting their businesses, promising to investigate.It is the sort of story Nigerians like to hear about their president, following his re-election in April.
