Sadly, it is a very common story

“It’s never been this bad,” protestors say about a proposed rent increase

Jennifer Gutierrez, the Democratic nominee for City Council member of District 34, says “affordability” does not line up with the income of Bushwick residents.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that his office will bolster the Tenant Support Unit, a team that reaches out to low-income residents facing eviction and landlord harassment.

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Safety concerns and money mixups now plague a luxury housing development In Bushwick

This holiday season, here’s how you can volunteer your time to help others in our community.

Antonio Reynoso, a North Brooklyn native, has won the election to be Brooklyn’s next borough president.

What exactly are your rights as a tenant in this city, and what are the legal obligations of landlords?

A local city council candidate makes the case for alternatives to big real estate

Whoever wins in June will have to decide what to do about the NYCHA deficit

‘They can no longer keep up with the rent. You’ve seen Myrtle Avenue, it’s all empty, it’s all for rent.’

Love Prince who is running against Incumbent Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez in the District 7 Democratic Primary Wins Their Petitioning Case and Will be on the voting ballot this June.

Boris Santos will be challenging incumbent Assembly Member Erik Dilan for seat at New York State’s Assembly District 54.

How and what is impacting the rental market in Ridgewood?

The plan will outline rezoning in the neighborhood.

Have you ever been harassed by your landlord?

Ask any New Yorker about a bad experience with a landlord, and they’ll probably have a story or two to tell

When I was a kid, my mother made me volunteer at a local shelter every Christmas morning

Photos from MayDay’s Facebook Journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glen Greenwald, together with Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Pointras, spoke to a packed audience Thursday night on the top floor of Bushwick’s Mayday, a newly opened “bar and community space” on Starr street in northern part of the booming North Brooklyn neighborhood. Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty […]

Around 100 Bushwick residents gathered around apartment buildings where long-term residents have been complaining about landlord harassment and rallied in defense of their tenants rights on Sunday April 6, 2014

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Bushwick is divided between the 34th and the 37th Council districts

Hurricane Sandy hindered our plans last year for a photo walk with Bushwick’s legendary photographer, Meryl Meisler

How to keep tenants in rent-stabilized apartments