Posted on 22 October 2019.
Raymond Marte-Ventura, 23, stood at the window of his uncle’s motorcycle repair shop on Jerome Avenue near 175th Street on a weekday in October, watching the rain fall onto the bikes parked curbside. Business was slow in the shop, and the weather wasn’t letting up. Marte-Ventura is the manager of Vent Bike Tech, a family […]
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Posted in - Housing Court Project Policy, Bronx Neighborhoods
Posted on 22 October 2019.
More than 10% of Bronx residents lived in an apartment last year with at least one hazardous housing violation.
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Posted in - Housing Court Project Policy
Posted on 22 October 2019. Tags: CITYFEPS, CITYFHEPS, Evictions, family, Housing Court, HRA, Morris Heights, welfare
Laura Collar fidgeted in place outside the fourth-floor courtroom in the Bronx Housing court on a Friday morning in September. The 34-year-old tenant waited to inform her landlord’s lawyer that she’d been granted another 12 days extension before they evict her from the Morris Heights apartment in the West Bronx where she lives with her […]
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Housing, Housing injustice FHEPS
Posted on 22 October 2019.
October begins the official eight-month “heat season,” in the city, when the city requires landlords to maintain indoor temperatures at 68 degrees during the day when it’s 55 degrees outside, and 62 degrees at night, regardless of the outside temperature. Last year, the Bronx recorded the most housing code complaints per capita of any other […]
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Posted in - Housing Court Project Landlords
Posted on 22 October 2019.
Mice, roaches, leaking pipes, and bulging walls — one of these alone could be a tenant’s nightmare. Andrea Daniels, a long-time Bronx resident, lives with all of them. Daniels has lived in her rent-regulated Mott Haven apartment for 16 years. When she needed repairs to her apartment, Daniels put in requests with her landlord. But […]
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Posted in - Housing Court Project Policy
Posted on 22 October 2019. Tags: Bronx, housing, Housing Court, landlords, legal aid, right to counsel
More than half of eligible tenants at the Bronx Housing Court don’t know they qualify for a free lawyer, but whether they face rent disputes or maintenance failures — a lawyer gives a tenant a voice in the outcome.
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Posted in Housing Injustice Right to Counsel, Special Reports
Posted on 22 October 2019.
Angel DeJesus was certain that the pictures of the black mold growing on the ceiling of his apartment, or the massive holes in the walls would make the Housing Court reverse the eviction that left him and his family out on the street. But the lack of legal aid resources in the Bronx, coupled with […]
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Posted in - Housing Court Project Tenants, Bronx Neighborhoods, Special Reports