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

… package that impact marketrate tenants including a cap on security deposits and late fees incentives for landlords to rerent a … be a matter of seeing how it pans out in practice  … Limits to the security deposit … A landlord can no longer …

By Emily Myers |December 24, 2019 - 10:00AM
New law says NY landlords cannot reject you for being on the 'tenant blacklist'—but they might try anyway

… documents so if youve been involved in disputes in NYC Housing Court regardless of the outcome and  even if you … Davidson a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of NYC says the new law is a first attempt to have state … says  White believes a better approach would have been to improve the efficiency of the housing court and …

By Emily Myers |July 17, 2019 - 9:00AM
Can we just get rid of the tenant blacklist altogether?

… such as withholding rent While theres been some movement to improve the listsCity Council member Benjamin J Kallos has … director of litigation and housing at Legal Services NYC Knowing the psychology of a lot of landlords they dont …

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