Eviction Lab

“Every building is different… You don’t know what you’re getting until you take it down to the bare bones.”

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/494805/office-pfizer-conversion-housing

via Vox

What that wobbling New York office tower reveals about America’s housing crisis A building almost collapsed in Manhattan. The backstory is surprisingly hopeful.

“This law is a major bipartisan achievement that could represent a turning point for how the federal government approaches the national housing crisis.”

Congress Has Finally Passed Major Housing Reform. The Real Work Starts Now. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act represents a true bipartisan investment in housing affordability, but now federal agencies need the funding and the staf…

“At the Linden Houses in East New York, tenant leaders and longtime residents Stanley and Leslie Fields say they struggled for months to straighten things out after they started getting billed for market rate rent.”

Hundreds Threatened With Eviction in Botched NYCHA Paperwork ‘Crisis’ A bureaucratic nightmare from the city housing authority and private building managers led to a 2,000% increase in tenants losing their Section 8 rental subsidies. Eviction notices followed.