• LES Residents Rally to Support Tenants and Oppose Eminent Domain Abuse
  99 Orchard Street tenants, employees of Congee Village and LES residents send message to Tenement Museum that Eminent Domain is wrong and destabilizes neighborhoods!
  Click here for photos
  Museum Would Evict 15 Tenants
  The State ESDC/Museum Scheme (PDF)
  
  
  
• Those Darn Leases
  Steinbrenner's a tenant... Yep -- and his Yankees got a sweetheart lease from Her Highness Rudy. So did the Mets. Here's the famous Lease Amendments (in Acrobat PDF).
  
  
• DHCR Wipes Away Many Tenant Protections
  With little notice, DHCR rewrote Rent Stabilization Code and Rent Control Regs making them a landlord dream!
  Click here for the NEW Rent Stabilization Code
  
• DHCR's Little Secret
  DHCR sets 2002-03 MBR Hearing for Feb. 5, but leaves the announcement off its web site. Little details like a possible 10.5% MBR jump for Rent Controlled tenants.
  
• Julie Lobbia Passes Away — Lobbia Memorial: Feb. 2nd —
  The Voice Remembers Julie — More Tributes
  
• Giuliani's Secret Report! -- A Report released by a NYC Judge shows NYC rents are out-of-control.
  
• The Romea File! -- A Federal Appeals panel holds that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) applies
  to three-day demands for rent signed by landlord attorneys.
  
• So you want to keep a pet, but the Lease says 'No'
  
• Noisy Neighbors
• Getting and Keeping Gas and Electricity
• Heating Requirements
• Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
• Illegal Eviction & Police Procedure
• NYC Zoning Handbook
• NYCHA Housing Spotlight — Is the New York City Housing Authority as corrupt as DHCR?
• Judge Ramos, Landlord
• NYC Code Enforcement system allows massive Landlord Fraud
• History of the Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 — For those who still think tenant laws were no more than a reaction to post-WWII overcrowding.
• Jacob Riis’ “How The Other Half Lives” — 1890 expose on NYC living conditions
• Abbie Hoffman's classic Steal This Book – so our yuppy friends paying "market rents" can remember their roots when they were yippies. BTW, we stole this!

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