Low-Income Housing Archives

Capitalism

How Do We Process the Loss of Our Homes?

A talk with filmmaker Swetha Regunathan

December 10, 2020 • by Jeannette Estruth

By all measures we are living in an era defined by housing crises, a flood of human habitat destruction. The losses are both economic and environmental. Over 17 million people in 2018 alone were displaced from their homes because of climate change–associated disasters, according to the United Nations. Here in ...

How Do We Process the Loss of Our Homes?

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Rebalancing Housing Court’s Scales of Justice

The First Year of New York’s ‘Right to Counsel’ Law

April 13, 2019 • by Oksana Mironova

A right to free legal representation in eviction cases -- combined with other important tenant protection measures -- is significantly rebalancing the scales of justice in New York City Housing Court and helping keep low-income residents in their homes. That’s the clear message of the first full year’s results of the ...

Rebalancing Housing Court’s Scales of Justice

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How to End the Culture of Cover-up in New York City Public Housing

NYCHA needs to start providing safe public housing to deserving tenants

July 29, 2018 • by Victor Bach

Transgression followed by cover-up: This all-too-familiar scenario has played out again, this time in the disgraceful and high-profile failures to protect New York City public housing residents from decrepit and dangerous living conditions. Urgent repairs to the buildings, and restorations to the integrity and reputation, of the New York City ...

How to End the Culture of Cover-up in New York City Public Housing

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Rent Protections Grow Scarcer and Landlord Harassment Gets More Common

The challenges for low-income tenants in New York City

June 10, 2018 • by Oksana Mironova and Victor Bach

Since the turn of the century, there has been a tectonic shift in the type of housing low-income New Yorkers live in. While most still live in rent-regulated rentals that number is dropping significantly. At the same time, tenants in both rent-regulated and unregulated housing report increased harassment by their ...