NYC tenants

Affordable housing tenants make about 6,500 complaints a year, from issues with broken elevators to rent overcharges, and it takes an average of 10 months to resolve a complaint, according to State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s audit of affordable housing programs.

NEW YORK—A group of city and state elected officials urged the state’s Public Service Commission in a letter to require that Comcast commit to universal broadband in New York City before it approves the cable giant’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable.

NEW YORK—In a rental complex right by the East River in Harlem—full of no-fee rentals, as the big sign outside boasts—tenants are organizing for improvements to their buildings.

NEW YORK—As this year’s historically low rent increase goes into effect Oct. 1, tenants, elected officials, and advocates are starting the campaign for rent reform, calling for a rent freeze for 2015.

NEW YORK—Even the politicians of the city are not immune from constant harassment, eviction attempts, and overcharges from landlords—if they live in rent-regulated apartments.