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New York, NY - Yesterday, 23 rent-stabilized tenants at 74 Post Avenue in Manhattan sued their landlord for failing to make repairs to their building following a four-alarm fire on January 5, 2021.
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ALBANY, NY (March 3, 2021) – New York State is facing the highest mortgage default rate since the Great Recession. As of the end of 2020, an average 11.8% (533,313) of New York homeowners were delinquent on their mortgages, according to US Census data. This rate is over three times the last high of 3.8% in January 2009 at the height of the Great Recession; and over five times the delinquency rate of January 2020 of 2.2%. Homeowners of color, moreover, are twice as likely to experience mortgage distress than their white counterparts. At the same time, New York's home retention program that funds free housing and legal services for homeowners -- the Homeowner Protection Program (HOPP) -- is about to run out of funding unless State lawmakers approve $20 million to maintain the program and protect families from foreclosure and displacement.
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New York, NY - Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) is proud to announce that William T. Russell, Jr., Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, has just been selected to serve as the new Board Chair of Legal Services NYC, the nation’s largest provider of free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers.
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BRONX, NY – Tenants of 215 East 164th Street in the South Bronx gathered outside their Rent Stabilized building complex this week to demand their landlord, David Eisenstein, fix hazardous building conditions they’ve been living with for years, including a rat infestation, unpatched holes in the wall, chronic leaks, damaged floors, and limited elevator use. Tenants sued their landlord years ago for many of the same issues, but poor-quality patchwork repairs and a general failure to perform adequate maintenance have forced tenants to file a new lawsuit against their landlord to demand that lasting repairs be made.
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