Evictions on the Rise in the City
Eviction rates increased in all boroughs except Manhattan in 2011, but nowhere was the problem as bad as in the Bronx.There were 10,140 evictions carried out in the Bronx in 2011, a 17 percent increase...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio to Spend More on Fighting Homelessness
Mayor de Blasio announced Monday the city will spend $12.3 million more on two programs that provide legal counsel to families facing eviction.The largest group of people in the city's shelter system...
View ArticleWhen Paying the Rent Leads to Poverty and Threats of Eviction
In 2013, 1 in 8 poor renting families nationwide were unable to pay all of their rent, and similar number thought it was likely they would be evicted soon, according to Harvard sociologist Matthew...
View ArticleHomeboy Sandman: Survival of the Freshest, Snap #711 - Throwback
Stones Throw Hip Hop artist Homeboy Sandman remembers when he first decided to take his music full time. When the rhymes don’t cover the rent, the New York emcee finds himself deep in the red and...
View ArticleWhy Tenants Lose When They Go Up Against Landlords in Newark
About 200 people arrive every day in Landlord/Tenant Court in Newark. Some want to tell a judge about the rats, or the mold, or the ceilings falling down, and why they stopped paying rent to force the...
View ArticleLosing ground
In 1996, Eddie Wise, the son of a sharecropper, purchased a farm with a loan from the USDA. Twenty years later, the USDA foreclosed on the property and evicted him. Reveal investigates his claim that...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E
We have an eviction epidemic in this country. We’ve had one for a long time. And in this new four-part series from On the Media, host Brooke Gladstone will seek out the why and the wherefore — in...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E, Part I: Why?
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View ArticleIntroducing: The Scarlet E
Millions of rent-burdened Americans face eviction filings and proceedings every year. On this week’s On the Media, what we think we know, and what we definitely don’t know, about America’s eviction...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E, Part II: 40 Acres
Home is in your heart and in your head, but mostly home is on land — acreage parceled out, clawed at, stolen, denied for decades and decades. First, there was Field Order No. 15, the Union Army’s plan...
View Article40 Acres
President Trump claims to have struck a deal with Mexico to settle a dispute of his own making. On this week’s On the Media, a look at the lives of the people who stand to suffer most. Plus, how the...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E, Part III: Tenants and Landlords
This is episode three in our series, “The Scarlet E: Unmasking America’s Eviction Crisis.” It’s the dollars-and-cents episode, in which we account for what we know and don’t know about those who own...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E, Part IV: Solutions
We have an eviction crisis, which is really just one part of a broader housing affordability crisis. Incomes are too low for rents. Rents are too high for incomes. The barriers to home-buying are...
View ArticleCan Eviction Moratoriums Stop The Bleeding?
From Miami to Massachusetts, from San Francisco to Pittsburgh to New York, housing courts are closing up and marshals are standing down as various eviction moratoriums provide at least one answer to...
View Article40 Acres
Home is in your heart and in your head, but mostly home is on land — acreage parceled out, clawed at, stolen, denied for decades and decades. First, there was Field Order No. 15, the Union Army’s plan...
View ArticleTeachers and Reopening the Schools; Thursday Morning Politics; Homelessness:...
Coming up on today's show:Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, offers the union's view on how to balance the need to reopen schools against the risks of COVID-19...
View ArticleRent Is Due Tomorrow
Today is July 31st—which means that for many people, rent is due tomorrow. But we know from watching recent data that a lot of people won't be able to pay by that deadline. According to a recent...
View ArticleWhat An In-Person Trial Looks Like in a Socially Distanced Brooklyn Housing...
New York City’s housing court is one of the busiest in the nation, with a quarter of a million new filings a year. When the coronavirus pandemic struck in March, the individual housing courts in each...
View ArticlePublic Health vs Religious Freedom; The Thanksgiving Surge; Will You Pay Rent...
Coming up on today's show:Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, talks about recent and upcoming court rulings regarding restrictions on religious gatherings, the census count,...
View ArticleWill You Pay Rent This Month?
Millions of Americans face an eviction crisis as the federal and state moratorium is set to expire on New Year’s Eve. Judith Goldiner, attorney-in-charge at The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Law Reform...
View ArticleWest Farms 10460: Affordable Housing and a Looming Eviction Crisis
According to data released last year by the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, the West Farms section of the Bronx saw some of the highest rates of eviction in 2019. In 2021, the...
View ArticleT. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Shape of a Teardrop”
T.Coraghessan Boyle reads his story from the March 15, 2021, issue of the magazine. Boyle is the author of more than two dozen books of fiction, including “The Terranauts” and “Outside Looking In.” A...
View ArticleAlbany Appears Poised to Extend Eviction Moratorium Again
Citing the continuing public health emergency and the need to assure economic stability, Albany legislators are expected to vote Monday to extend the state’s eviction moratorium until August 31st for...
View ArticleSettlement Hearings In Landlord-Tenant Cases Now Mandatory, New Jersey Court...
New Jersey's Supreme Court has ordered mandatory settlement hearings in pending landlord-tenant cases and said renters who fail to show up will face an eviction order.Chief Justice Stuart Rabner's...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Is Set to Expire This Month
The federal ban on evictions is set to expire at the end of July. But 14% of renters are still behind on their payments and in big cities rent is up by 24% from last year. The Treasury Department is...
View ArticleCongresswoman Cori Bush on the Eviction Moratorium
The eviction moratorium expired at the end of July. Advocates warn that 7 to 11 million people are in danger of being evicted from their homes as a result. The moratorium expiration occurred just as...
View ArticleA 40 Acre Promise
Last week, the federal government, in a limited way, extended the eviction moratorium in place since the start of the pandemic. It's a temporary solution to a long-looming crisis — a crisis we explored...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Ended Biden Administration's Eviction Moratorium
For months, the Biden administration has been extending a federal eviction moratorium to protect tenants struggling to pay their rent during the pandemic, but now, the eviction moratorium is over. The...
View ArticleGood Cause Eviction and New York's Housing Crisis
New York State Senator Julia Salazar (D, WF-18th district) discusses New York's housing crisis and a "good cause" eviction bill she's sponsored, plus other issues in play as part of the state budget.
View ArticleHousing Roundup: State Budget, Property Taxes, 'Squatters'
David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, talks about the deal taking shape on housing in the state budget; whether "squatters" are a real and growing issue and a state Court of Appeals...
View ArticleMidday News: MetroCards Will Soon Be History, Feds Demand Subway Safety Plan...
The MTA says they'll stop selling MetroCards by the end of the year, as part of the agency's push to convert all subway and bus fare collection to the tap-to-pay OMNY system. Plus, a new report reveals...
View ArticleReport finds that middle-income New Yorkers are the new face of eviction in...
Moderate-income New Yorkers are increasingly becoming the face of eviction in the city. That’s according to a new report from the Community Service Society of New York, which found that nearly half the...
View ArticleLessons From Trump’s “War” on Chicago
Chicago has been one of the latest stops on the Trump administration’s deportation tour. “Operation Midway Blitz” started in September and, for months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border...
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