The Ford government introduced a new housing bill on Thursday that it says would streamline approvals and let developers build homes more quickly. But buried in the legislation is a proposal for "alternative options to lease expiry rules that could allow landlords to control who occupies their units and for how long," including through adjustments to rental arrangements based on market conditions, personal needs or business strategies, according to the province's briefing slides Thursday.
Attorney Richard Vetstein, of the Vetstein Law Group in Framingham said both landlords and tenants have responsibilities in maintaining a property. "A landlord has the obligation to comply with the sanitary code," he said. "The sanitary code is the floor. If conditions go beneath the floor, the landlord has to make repairs. Landlords aren't mind readers, though, either. They have to be told that there's a problem and they need a reasonable opportunity to correct it."
When Rosenworcel proposed a federal opt-out rule last year, the FCC said it would "increase competition for communications service in these buildings by making it more profitable for competitive providers to deploy service in buildings where it is currently too expensive to serve consumers because tenants are required to take a certain provider's service." But the proposal was nixed in January 2025 by Chairman Brendan Carr, shortly after President Trump elevated Carr to the FCC's top slot.
This year alone, I passed over 30 bills. It's hard to choose just one - whether it's S5320 expanding tuition assistance for students experiencing homelessness, S3121 protecting tenants from unfair rent fees, or S2126 uplifting underrepresented educators. With the Ignazio Giacalone Act, S1165A, we honor families of sanitation workers lost after 9/11. And with S8181, we protect first responders' health and dignity. Each bill reflects equity, fairness, and sacrifice - together, building a stronger, more just New York.
A City Limits investigation revealed significant issues with the program, which helps some 100,000 New Yorkers afford housing at buildings across the city. Here's how to know if you live in one of these apartments, and how to get help if you do. Last week, City Limits released a three-part investigation into New York City's Project-Based Rental Assistance Program, which helps low-income residents afford housing. We found tenants struggling to reach their property managers, get repairs done, and force government agencies to take enforcement seriously.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) responded to a record 161,773 unique heat and hot water problems in the 12 months that ended last June, according to the Mayor's Management Report released in mid-September. Heat and hot water violations were up 12 percent over the previous fiscal year, and 60 percent since 2016. Other housing code problems went up just 2 percent last fiscal year.
BOSTON - Today, on the effective date of a new state law prohibiting real estate brokers and salespersons retained by landlords from charging broker fees to prospective tenants, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) has released an advisory on the new law, highlighting obligations of landlords, brokers, and salespersons under this new law and existing law, and underscoring rights and resources for consumers.
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At the top of " The Hill," Bayview's steep enclave of largely low-income, subsidized apartments overlooking the western half of San Francisco, residents driving by or sitting on stoops on an uncharacteristically warm Tuesday afternoon got a bit of a surprise: There was Mayor Daniel Lurie, clambering up the steep slope, followed by a band of his security, staff, organizers and residents going unit to unit.
The Tenant Protection Act of 2019 created statewide rent control and just cause eviction protections for most residential properties in California, indicating a significant shift in tenant rights.
The exploitative scheme was first uncovered by Outlier, which reported that RealToken properties are plagued by squalid conditions, unresponsive property managers, and arbitrary evictions.
Tenant rights groups argue that some landlords exploit renovations to evict tenants under the guise of overhauls, subsequently imposing higher rents on new occupants. This process is labeled as 'renoviction.'
Christina Smyth stated, "We understand that this is a very difficult decision, and that this board is put in a position each year to the utter failures of the state elected officials and the city government to address the high cost of housing and the abject lack of supply."
The suspect clearly made it his own property. He was clearly using amenities inside the residence, sleeping there, explained Juan Madiedo, an officer with the Gwinnett County Police Department.
