Real estate
Tenant laws helped drop eviction rate: report
BY GABE HERMAN
Evictions are down nearly 20 percent
in New York City since rent
laws were enacted last June, city
Aid Society credited the new laws with
contributing to the decline.
The Housing Stability and Tenant
Protection Act of 2019 was enacted on
June 14, 2019, and included more legal
protections for tenants against evictions,
limits on security deposits, and notice to
be given on rent increases over a certain
amount.
From June 14 through the end of 2019,
evictions across the city were down 18.3
percent, going from 10,958 between those
dates in 2018, to 8,951 during the same
timeframe in 2019, according to city data.
The Legal Aid Society said the decline
was also impacted by the city’s Right to
Counsel program, which launched in
2017 and gives New Yorkers with lower
incomes the right to have an attorney
when facing an eviction in housing court.
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Good Cause legislation would prevent
tenants from being evicted due to large
rent increases, and Home Stability Support
would provide rent supplements to
those eligible for public assistance who
face eviction or other possible housing
loss.
The Real Estate Board of New York, a
real estate industry trade association, did
not immediately respond to a request for
comment about the report.
Broken down by borough, the city date
shows that Queens and Manhattan had
the biggest declines in evictions in 2019
from June 14 through Dec. 31.
Queens saw a 26.4 percent drop in
evictions, from 2,291 to 1,686, while
Manhattan evictions declined by 24.4
percent, from 1,700 to 1,286.
The other three boroughs also saw
decreases in evictions. The Bronx saw
evictions fall by 15.2 percent, from 3,505
to 2,972. Staten Island evictions declined
by 14 percent, from 364 to 313. And in
Brooklyn, evictions fell by 13 percent,
from 3,098 to 2,694.
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The eviction rate dropped over the last six months of 2019, according
to a recent report.
“These laws and programs are noticeably
working and more New Yorkers are
remaining in their homes as a result,” said
Judith Goldiner, Attorney-In-Charge of
the Civil Law Reform Unit at The Legal
Aid Society. “However, we still have more
to do and it starts with Albany enacting
Good Cause legislation and Home Stability
Support, investing in public housing
across New York, and ending useless
developers. These measures are needed
to meaningfully address our sprawling
affordable housing and homelessness
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26 January 9, 2020 Schneps Media