'I'm Scared': Thousands in New York Public Housing Are Behind on Rent
NYCHA is pledging to avoid evictions. But many tenants in arrears are anxious.
Source: nytimes.com
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NYCHA is pledging to avoid evictions. But many tenants in arrears are anxious.
“If this was a private small landlord he would be in jail by now,” Judge Kimon Thermos said during a Jan. 20 hearing. “He would have been in jail by now and the fines would have been $500 per day, per apartment. So he would have been in jail and he would have been losing his building too.”