"Housing court, a system created to protect tenants, has become a powerful tool for landlords." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/20/nyregion/nyc-affordable-housing.html …
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"The entire structure of tenant protections — while probably still the nation’s strongest, at least on paper — has been steadily eroded by landlord-friendly laws adopted in Albany and haphazard regulation."
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"Landlords, especially the corporate owners who control an increasing share of the market, follow a standard playbook to push tenants out. That is often the first step toward raising the rent...beyond $2,733.75/month, under current rules — to break the shackles of regulation."
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"Owners may offer tenants buyouts to leave. They may harass them with poor services and constant construction. And, sometimes on the flimsiest of evidence, they may sue them in housing court."
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"Lawsuits are easy to file but onerous to fight. Landlords have lawyers. Tenants usually don’t, despite a new law that aims to provide free counsel to low-income New Yorkers."
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"About 232,000 cases were filed last year against tenants, roughly one for every 10 city rentals. Most tenants were accused of owing back rent. But in many cases, tenants were sued for rent they did not owe."
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"Sometimes they had paid, only to have landlords claim that the checks mistakenly remained uncashed or had been lost in the mail; sometimes they were sued for money owed by a government program. Sometimes, tenants withheld rent only b/c much-needed repairs had never been done."
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"In recent years, landlords have also increasingly turned to a different kind of eviction suit...Known as holdovers, these cases involve purported lease violations. Often the violations are minuscule. Sometimes they are simply fabricated."
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"Even if a case is shown to be baseless, just being sued can hurt a tenant’s ability to rent a new apartment. Screening companies tell landlords whether a prospective tenant has been sued for eviction, without necessarily saying how the case was resolved."
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