ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES
(excerpted from Michael McKee's emails)
ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES
(excerpted from Michael McKee's emails)
EXCERPT:
A newly amended bill aims to meet the federal requirements for the rent-relief program, which include means-testing and priority for tenants who demonstrate housing instability or risk of homelessness.
https://www.evictionfreeny.org/en/
You can use EvictionFreeNY.org to send a hardship declaration form to your landlord and local courts— putting your eviction case on hold until May 1st, 2021. [Otherwise your case could start after Feb. 26, 2021.]
This weekend: Join the Annual West Side Tenant Conference on Zoom - and listen to a mayoral candidates debate.
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ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES
Upstate Tenants Protest Evictions
Albany Times Union letter to editor: Small landlord says evictions are not the solution to pandemic crisis
CBS6 Albany: Tenants protest resumption of evictions outside Troy marshal's office
Matt Hunter: Citizen Action & VOCAL NY members protest against evictions in Troy (Spectrum News) (VIDEO)
Elections
Chris Bragg: Outstanding absentee ballots in contested state senate races offer clues to final outcomes (Albany Times Union)
Samar Khurshid: Brooklyn, Staten Island Democrats look to absentee ballots to overcome election night deficits (Gotham Gazette)
Shant Shahrigian: Candidates for 5 New York City Council seats start sprint to special elections (Daily News)
Denis Slattery: Gianaris proposes legislation to allow earlier counting of absentee ballots (Daily News)
Denis Slattery: Green & Libertarian political parties face loss of their automatic ballot lines as the Working Families Party avoids the same fate (Daily News)
Emma Fitzsimmons: What Biden's win could mean for NYC: 5 takeaways (New York Times)
State Budget
Danny Katch: Albany's failure to tax the rich is leading to a health care disaster as second COVID wave looms (The Indypendent)
State bans frivolous lawsuits meant to punish free speech
Edward McKinley: Cuomo signs Hoylman-Weinstein bill to curb SLAPP lawsuits designed to chill free speech (Albany Times Union)
New York Times editorial: New York's new anti-SLAPP legislation is long overdue
Miscellaneous
Gabriel Sandovar: Bronx pastor bargained for a new church in selling his congregation's land, accuses developer of bad faith (The City)
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