A Lower East Side landlord who received more than $200,000 from the city in exchange for renting apartments to 11 formerly homeless New Yorkers has now filed to evict them.
Donate NowA Lower East Side landlord who received more than $200,000 from the city in exchange for renting apartments to formerly homeless New Yorkers has filed to evict them, court documents show.in 2021, the owners of a 20-unit building at 67 Pitt St. leased apartments to 11 tenants who were living in homeless shelters at the time.
According to Kevin Duffy-Greaves, a supervising attorney with Mobilization for Justice who is representing Eley, the situation reflects a number of problems facing the city's low-income renters. These include a possible return to shelter for once-homeless tenants; a denial of a new lease; a nearly 50% rent increase; limits in the city’s right-to-counsel law ; and the flaw in a housing subsidy meant to keep people in apartments.
“What these landlords are doing is saying is ‘We’ll take the free year of rent, we don’t care if you can afford it after, we’re just going to get rid of you,’” said Daniel Basuk, a staff member at Manhattan Legal Services, which represents two other tenants at 67 Pitt St. Down the hall, Eley’s neighbor Michael Perkins, a construction worker, said rats and roaches are persistent pests since he moved into the unit in 2021. Perkins said he had to patch a hole in his ceiling where vermin entered the unit and received a roach-infested refrigerator. He shared photos of bugs in the fridge, the ceiling hole and food packages he said were torn apart by rats inside his cabinets.
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