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Loft Tenants Awarded the Right to Sue Landlords in NYC Housing Court

Loft Tenants Awarded the Right to Sue Landlords in NYC Housing Court

The new law, sponsored by Sen. Julia Salazar, allows loft tenants to seek redress in housing court when their essential services like heat and water are neglected or denied.

Winter Woes: Space Heater Safety and Your Right to Heat in NYC

Winter Woes: Space Heater Safety and Your Right to Heat in NYC

In New York City, all tenants have a right to heat. Here’s what to do if your apartment doesn’t have it.

Dealing With a Bad Roommate in NYC? Know Your Rights

Dealing With a Bad Roommate in NYC? Know Your Rights

If you’re living with a toxic roommate, what can you legally do to separate yourself from the situation?

Can My Landlord Do That? The Renter’s Guide to New York Housing Law

Can My Landlord Do That? The Renter’s Guide to New York Housing Law

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

‘Communities Resist’ is Defending Tenants Against Housing Discrimination and Harassment

‘Communities Resist’ is Defending Tenants Against Housing Discrimination and Harassment

Local nonprofit helps tenants fight against housing displacement, landlord harassment, and gentrification

Will the Bushwick Neighborhood Plan Address the Affordable Housing Crisis?

Will the Bushwick Neighborhood Plan Address the Affordable Housing Crisis?

Bushwick Community Fair Offers Free Legal Counseling and Tenants Rights Services this August

Bushwick Community Fair Offers Free Legal Counseling and Tenants Rights Services this August

El Puente in partnership with Assemblywoman Davila, is hosting a free Bushwick & Williamsburg CommUNITY Resource Fair on Saturday, August 24, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Maria Hernandez Park.

Bushwick Rezoning Aims for   Industrial Job Growth and Affordable Housing, Locals Remain Skeptic

Bushwick Rezoning Aims for Industrial Job Growth and Affordable Housing, Locals Remain Skeptic

Two Affordable Housing Lotteries Are Now in Williamsburg

Two Affordable Housing Lotteries Are Now in Williamsburg

Deadlines are next week, hurry to apply!

Another NYCHA Public Housing in East Williamsburg Without Heat

Another NYCHA Public Housing in East Williamsburg Without Heat

Ridgewood Savings Bank: 6 Signs You’ve Found the Right Bank

Ridgewood Savings Bank: 6 Signs You’ve Found the Right Bank

If your current bank is missing some of these important qualities then it’s time to find a bank that offers the value–and values–you deserve.

Bushwick Rezoning Event Highlighted More Affordable Housing Concerns From Longtime Residents

Bushwick Rezoning Event Highlighted More Affordable Housing Concerns From Longtime Residents

“People are becoming homeless.”

Animal Rights Activists Protested A Local Vivero Last Friday

Animal Rights Activists Protested A Local Vivero Last Friday

Viveros are places where animals are slaughtered per order in the neighborhood.

Know Your Rights: Bushwick Responds to ICE Arrests

Know Your Rights: Bushwick Responds to ICE Arrests

Bushwick was the center of rumors about checkpoints and arrests over the weekend, making it difficult to separate fact from fiction.

It’s Getting Cold Out There! Donate Winter Coats to New York’s Homeless, Right in Bushwick!

It’s Getting Cold Out There! Donate Winter Coats to New York’s Homeless, Right in Bushwick!

For the 28th year in a row, thousands of donated coats will be counted, sorted and distributed to organizations serving the homeless and other low-income New Yorkers by New York Cares volunteers.

This Bushwick Art Show Will Showcase Works Documenting Life in Public Housing

This Bushwick Art Show Will Showcase Works Documenting Life in Public Housing

“Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Stories of Community and Resilience from Public Housing” opens at Silent Barn’s Disclaimer Gallery on Friday, September 9th.

How Local Advocates Want to Address Bushwick’s Race, Class & Affordable Housing Issues

How Local Advocates Want to Address Bushwick’s Race, Class & Affordable Housing Issues

An expert panel on gentrification versus affordable housing in New York City filled audience members with frustration—and hope.

New Study Identifies Greatest Threats to Bushwick’s Affordable Housing

New Study Identifies Greatest Threats to Bushwick’s Affordable Housing

In a new report released by the ANHD, researchers culled data from multiple sources in order to find how many threats to affordable housing exist in many of New York City’s neighborhoods

Parsons Students Created a Gazette to Provide Affordable Housing Info for Bushwick Residents

Parsons Students Created a Gazette to Provide Affordable Housing Info for Bushwick Residents

It’s no joke: New York City rents have skyrocketed in the past few years, and will continue to climb for the foreseeable future

Is the Developer of Rheingold Luxury Condos Avoiding Promised Affordable Housing?

Is the Developer of Rheingold Luxury Condos Avoiding Promised Affordable Housing?

A civic organization, North West Bushwick Community (NWBC), whose missions is to advocate against the displacement of Bushwick’s longtime working-class residents and for accountability from developers, has requested that members of Bushwick community sign a petition pressuring the developer of Rheingold luxury condos to build promised affordable housing and to provide local jobs

Bushwick’s “El Garden” Could Be Razed to Create New Housing. Sign the Petition to Save It

Bushwick’s “El Garden” Could Be Razed to Create New Housing. Sign the Petition to Save It

Increasing affordable housing and creating community green space are both laudable goals to pursue in the ongoing evolution of NYC’s neighborhoods, but a recent decision from city hall to invite developers to turn community gardens across the city into construction sites for new affordable housing seems to pit the two objectives against each other

Ask Sally, A Tenants’ Rights Attorney:  Is My Rent Too Damn High?

Ask Sally, A Tenants’ Rights Attorney: Is My Rent Too Damn High?

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Ask Sally, a Tenants’ Rights Attorney: Can My Landlord Limit the Number of My Guests?

Ask Sally, a Tenants’ Rights Attorney: Can My Landlord Limit the Number of My Guests?

Hey, there

Arts in Bushwick Held a Panel on the Future of Affordable Housing

Arts in Bushwick Held a Panel on the Future of Affordable Housing

All photos by Lucia Reed for Bushwick Daily On a recent rainy Sunday, I bundled up and hustled across Bushwick. I was coming from a meeting with the owner of Bootleg Bar, which just opened up on Myrtle and Bleeker, and I was rushing to a panel on affordable housing being held at Radio Bushwick. […]

Learning About Your Rights And How To Film the Cops

Learning About Your Rights And How To Film the Cops

For the next two Wednesdays, People’s Justice an anti-police brutality NYC organization will be hosting two related trainings: one for Know Your Rights and the other for Cop Watch

Yes, Virginia, There Is Available Affordable Housing in Bushwick!

Yes, Virginia, There Is Available Affordable Housing in Bushwick!

We don’t need to remind you that Bushwick is rife with housing tragedies

What We Learned at Silent Barn’s Housing Law Forum

What We Learned at Silent Barn’s Housing Law Forum

Everyone’s heard at least one horror story about renting in New York City

Bushwick Reading List: Tenants Have Rights, But Not On Boats

Bushwick Reading List: Tenants Have Rights, But Not On Boats

It’s been a real week here in Bushwick already, friends

Reading List: Bushwick Mother Found Dead, Passive Housing

Reading List: Bushwick Mother Found Dead, Passive Housing

Bushwick Bill is wagin’ some Spiritual Warfare on a live band version of his 2009 LP, My Testimony of Redemption

Bushwick Candidates Focused on Housing: Who is Who

Bushwick Candidates Focused on Housing: Who is Who

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

TONIGHT: The New School and Bushwick Community Advocates Will Teach You How to Keep Your Rent Down

TONIGHT: The New School and Bushwick Community Advocates Will Teach You How to Keep Your Rent Down

Before “affordable housing” became a politically charged buzzword, it must have once seemed like a laughable redundancy

A Local Zone, of Some Interest

A Local Zone, of Some Interest

“It’s not about a ceasefire or not about not a ceasefire”

Bushwick Gets Its First Historic District

Bushwick Gets Its First Historic District

“Really big deal,” says local pol

Drama In The Denizen

Drama In The Denizen

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