This year, groups focused primarily on tenants' issues, including those supporting the coalition's platform, have centered their own campaigns on strengthening rent regulations to slow the attrition of low-priced units.
Two tenant board members from Hackney told our group that they were kicked off for "rocking the boat" by raising tenant issues.
"A little bit of light has been shed," said Melissa Cook, who specializes in landlord-tenant issues, reaching a modest lawyerly conclusion about the program.
"How can he represent our community on tenant issues when he is in the pocket of the landlords?" Mr. Lizardo said.
"On the issues they care about, from minimum wage to tenant issues to development, they are absolutely definitional — they can set the debate at the city and the state level," Mr. de Blasio said.
A. Luise A. Barrack, a Manhattan lawyer who specializes in landlord-tenant issues, said that while the state's Multiple Dwelling Law requires landlords to provide self-locking doors in residential buildings, the law does not require the landlord to provide tenants with a key to the door as long as an attendant is there to open it.
But last week, newly added to the tenant issues facing building managers like Harold M. Jacob, who runs a co-op on the Lower East Side where Orthodox Jews inhabit a substantial portion of the 2,500 apartments, was this almost ontological question: Does that elevator "know" how many people are on it?
I doubt an affluent Forbes reader wants to deal with tenant issues.
3. "Out-of-State" landlords BEWARE: If you plan on renting a residence that is not convenient for you to return to on a regular basis -- whether it be for repairs, inspections, or tenant issues -- do not rent.
Legal aid programs are an excellent resource for help with divorce proceedings, employment issues, landlord and tenant issues, and a number of other legal problems.
