"Settlements are pushed in chaotic hallways, emergency loans are held up as cure-alls and delays are seemingly endless. Welcome to housing court. Take a number."https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/20/nyregion/landlord-tenant-disputes-housing-court.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com …
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"But while New York is considered to have strong tenant protections, bewildered tenants still routinely find themselves outfoxed by landlords. They battle for their homes largely unrepresented by lawyers, making housing court the most lopsided court in the system."
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"But with landlords keen to empty apartments to raise rents, a number of cases have been brought over lagging rent payments that are hair-splittingly minimal."
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"And there has been aggressive use of another species of eviction proceeding, known as a holdover, that can involve minute — and sometimes fabricated — violations of a tenant’s lease."
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"In Brooklyn, about 17 percent of eviction cases last year were holdovers: One tenant had no right to a lease and wouldn’t move; another kept an unauthorized washing machine; a child, as claimed in one case, was throwing rice out the window."
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"Last year, there were 21,074 [evictions] across the city. Of those, 5,984 took place in Brooklyn. In other words, every day an average of 16 families lost their homes."
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