City Council passes tenant harassment bill

A City Council bill passed yesterday makes permanent a program requiring some distressed building owners to certify that they aren’t harassing tenants before they can go forward with certain renovations or demolition. The Certification of No Harassment pilot, first put into place in 2018 and extended four years later through Sept. 27 of this year, covered 1,508 properties across the city’s five boroughs. The initiative will continue after receiving 36 yes votes, five no votes and one abstention yesterday.  It now requires the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to put out a new list of properties that fall under […]

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