How NYC’s new rent reforms affect you even if you’re not a stabilized tenant: A blacklist ban, security deposit limit, & more

… New Yorks landmark rent reforms didnt go as far as extending protections to marketrate tenants through the good cause eviction bill … deposit … A landlord can no longer ask more than one months rent as a security deposit on a rental Thats intended …

By Emily Myers |December 24, 2019 - 10:00AM
Can we just get rid of the tenant blacklist altogether?

… screening bureaus pull housing court records and in turn sell them to landlords who are looking to vet potential … might consider a court appearance a mark against your track record The problem is that these lists pull the … based on a tenants past history in housing court No one should face legislation for exercising what I believe should

By Virginia K. Smith |October 24, 2016 - 8:59AM