City Limits: Pioneering Tenant Group Champions Rights of NYC’s 35K Supportive Housing Residents
“You can’t exercise housing rights you don’t know you have."
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New York Focus: Tenants Suffer As City Sells Landlords’ Tax Debt to Speculators
Although New York’s tax lien sale is intended to incentivize property owners to pay, it can pressure owners to sell to speculators or cut corners with maintenance, without oversight from the city and at the expense of tenants.
Curbed: Most Storefront Rents in New York Are As High As Ever
Rents came down for, like, a month or two, and then everyone started trying to make up for what they lost,” said Paula Segal, an attorney with TakeRoot Justice, which offers legal services to small commercial businesses.
Gothamist: In Pandemic’s Aftermath, Calls Grow For NYC To Regulate Commercial Rents
Small businesses often given cheaper rents for the first year of a lease as an incentive, but then “it doubles in year two because the landlord is trying to make up what they lost during Covid.”
amNewYork: Nearly a year later, residents displaced by East Village inferno tearfully implore former landlord to aid them
The Cooper Square Committee hosted a rally with TakeRoot Justice, tenants, elected officials, and other community advocates held a rally pleading for Faith Popcorn stop stalling and engage in meaningful negotiations.
USA TODAY: I was sexually assaulted in prison. Overhaul the system to protect the trans community.
Unfortunately, my story is not unique and the abuse continues. A recent report by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and TakeRoot Justice, “It’s Still War in Here,” documents the abusive conditions in New York state prisons.
NY1: Rent Guidelines Board votes to freeze rents for six months, then hike rents after
Pilar DeJesus was among the activists to gather in Cooper Square Wednesday and protest new rent hikes. DeJesus, who works as the senior advocacy coordinator at TakeRoot Justice, said her clients cannot afford a rent increase.
The City: Bronx Tenant Takes on Ex-Housing Agency Bigwig With Relentless Court Cases Demanding Repairs
"We’re trying to show the judge that there’s been a pattern,” said Jason Torres, who is currently represented by the nonprofit legal group TakeRoot Justice. “I just don’t know what to do anymore.”
The City: Remote Housing Court Hearings Strain Internet-Deprived Tenants Taking on Landlords
Stephanie Storke of TakeRoot Justice, Catalán’s attorney, said that participating in court via an interpreter is often cumbersome even for in-person settings, but that virtual hearings can make it worse.
Patch: Community Sues New York City Council Over Flushing Rezoning
The lawsuit describes the slight-of-hand that the City Planning Commission used to incorrectly certify the developers' application to start the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) without an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).