The ruling is a win for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who argued that the case be heard in Manhattan and not in Staten Island where the lawsuit challenging the decision had been filed.
By Bill Ponton Zohran the Magnificent will not reflect for one millisecond on the havoc he will sow with his rent control policy, which is the whole point anyway.
Nonprofit developers are hauling longtime low-income renters into court to kick them out of a city-owned Venice fourplex, all to build a $133 million affordable housing project that the city's own attorney has called "infeasible and unauthorized." Mary Alice Crowe moved into her apartment near the Venice Canals forty-three years ago. She was twenty-nine. She […] The post Venice tenants face eviction from their own homes to clear way for $133 million housing project backed by Nithya Raman appeared first on American Almanac .
Nonprofit developers are hauling longtime low-income renters into court to kick them out of a city-owned Venice fourplex, all to build a $133 million affordable housing project that the city's own attorney has called "infeasible and unauthorized." Mary Alice Crowe moved into her apartment near the Venice Canals forty-three years ago. She was twenty-nine. She raised her son there, built a life there, and at seventy-one she assumed she would stay. Allan Phillips, her neighbor in the same small building, has lived there for thirty-five years. Both pay below-market rent on city-owned land. Both now face a legal action filed by nonprofit developers who want them gone, and who argue they cannot afford to wait for the tenants' own lawsuit…Open
AI:In another crushing blow to the working class, Los Angeles officials and nonprofit developers are weaponizing the legal system to steamroll longtime low-income tenants in Venice. These residents, some having occupied their homes for over four decades, are being dragged into court to make room for a massive $133 million "affordable housing" project backed by Nithya Raman. Even more egregious is that the city's own attorney has flagged this entire endeavor as unauthorized and infeasible, yet the bureaucratic machine pushes forward regardless of the human cost. This isn't about helping people; it is a coordinated displacement effort where existing residents are treated like obstacles in a high-stakes real estate game orchestrated by radical…Open
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.
In a historic move, the Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents for New York City’s roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments. Beginning Oct. 1, that means a zero percent increase for leases, affecting around two million New Yorkers. NewsNation's Marcus Espinoza has more. Start your day with "Morning in America," NewsNation's live three-hour national morning newscast hosted by Markie Martin. Weekdays starting at 6a/5C. #MorningInAmerica NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised relief for rent-stabilized tenants. But thousands of apartments under a separate city program are subject to increases, creating an awkward contrast.
Housing debates often involve theatrics. But when a group of actors, many of whom are renters, discovered they had been hired to join a pro-landlord demonstration, several said they felt deceived.
Taking private property and giving it to nonprofits
OPINION: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a speech on Tuesday that the city will be cracking down on "negligent landlords" and potentially transferring property ownership to the tenants. #Mamdani #NYC #Housing
OPINION: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a speech on Tuesday that the city will be cracking down on "negligent landlords" and potentially transferring property ownership to the tenants. #Mamdani #NYC #Housing About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political newsmakers. Follow Rising on…