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With help from Shawn Ness New from New York Happening now: The fight over good cause evictions. Adams visits NAN. A push to close the Medicaid gap. A law to protect horses is taking effect. DAYS THE BUDGET IS LATE: 10 UNLIKELY FRIENDS: Negotiations over a state budget are struggling to get to the finish […]
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Tenants and Economists Are Pushing to Regulate Rent for a Vast Amount of U.S. Housing
November 21st, 2023 
Awake Goy About a hundred tenants from across the country, all living in units with federally-backed mortgages, occupied the headquarters of Starwood Capital Group in Washington, D.C. on Friday, wearing shirts that said “THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH.” They unfurled a large banner that said, “Tenants are capable and willing to pay rent increases,” which is […]
Tenants demand a national renters bill of rights amidst skyrocketing rents and corporate landlord profiteering
November 20th, 2023 Awake Goy In an era where the cost of living has escalated beyond the means of many, tenant activists from across the United States have taken a bold stand against corporate greed and housing inequality. Their demand: a comprehensive National Renters Bill of Rights to protect tenants from exorbitant rent hikes by corporate landlords, particularly those operating […]
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No Comments »Tenants Are Fighting to Influence the Bank That Funds Their Landlords
July 18th, 2023 Awake Goy Tenants in buildings with landlords that took out loans from the failed Signature Bank are demanding a say when the government sells off those loans this summer. For people in buildings with deteriorating conditions, many of whom have long accused Signature of being harmful with its lending, it’s a rare opportunity to push for repairs […]
Hundreds of Tenants Protest at NY State Capitol Building for ‘Good Cause’ Eviction Law
June 3rd, 2023 Awake Goy Screecap from video by Aaron Fernando Over 500 tenants from advocacy organizations across New York State poured into the capitol building in Albany on Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to get the legislature to pass a bill this legislative session that would ban evictions in most cases, except where a tenant has violated their lease […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: building, capitol, cause, hundreds, protest, state, tenants No Comments »VOCI – Parable of the Wicked Tenants
April 21st, 2023 Awake Goy Who are the wicked tenants? The jooz, of course! The Parable of the Tenants Mat 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far […]
Landlord, Air Force Vet Homeless After Tenants Stop Paying Rent During Eviction Ban
August 27th, 2021 Awake Goy (FOX Business) — A landlord in upstate New York is living out of a car with her daughter after being unable to collect rent from tenants in three properties she owns due to eviction moratoriums. “I don’t understand how they can give my private property to somebody to live for free. I bought that property. […]
Tenants Fear ‘Tsunami Of Evictions’ As Moratorium Ends
August 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters After a federal eviction moratorium was allowed to expire over the weekend, thousands of eviction proceedings filed by landlords are working their way through court systems across the United States. The vast majority of federal funds meant for rental assistance, which could forestall an eviction, were never even disbursed. […]
Tenants Call For Public Housing Boss To Be Bounced
June 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Sue Brisk. NYCHA tenants could lose their rights in terms of evictions, succession rights, and the lack of ability to pay rent due to one’s income. New York City – “Get Russ out!” public-housing tenants from around the city chanted outside the New York City Housing Authority headquarters in Lower Manhattan June 9, […]
Housing Justice Group Puts Power Back In Tenants’ Hands
March 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Housing Justice Group Puts Power Back In Tenants’ Hands Above photo: Photo by Carly Rosin. Photo illustration by Elizabeth Brown. KC Tenants has secured passage of a tenant “bill of rights” and successfully blocked hundreds of evictions through civil action in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Brandy Granados’s road to activism began in November 2018 […]
KC Tenants’ Month Of Activism Broke The System
March 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: KC Tenants gathered at the downtown Jackson County Courthouse on January 7th, blockading both of the courthouse’s main entrances demanding a cease to evictions. Chase Castor. Daniel Halferty was behind on rent. “When I made a partial payment in October, [my landlord] texted me, berating me.” Halferty had been hunting for a job […]
Tenants Take On The ‘City’s Worst Landlord’ With Rent Strike
December 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy Tenants Take On The ‘City’s Worst Landlord’ With Rent Strike By Caroline Spivak, Curbed. December 1, 2020 Above photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images. Standing outside the four-story brick apartment building in Crown Heights she calls home, Jemiah Johnson took her turn with the black megaphone. “This building is literally killing us!” the 26-year-old mother […]
Unhoused Community Forms Tenants Union
November 14th, 2020 Awake Goy Constituents Protest at Commissioner’s Home. Minneapolis, MN – A tenants union was formed this past weekend by unhoused community members who have been living at the Extended Stay America hotel in Bloomington, MN. After a deal for Hennepin County to purchase the building unexpectedly fell through, residents say they are standing up for their rights as […]
Witch Hunt: ‘Russian Collusion’ Investigation Includes Tenants Who Rented Apartments in Trump Tower
August 4th, 2017 Awake Goy Witch Hunt: ‘Russian Collusion’ Investigation Includes Tenants Who Rented Apartments in Trump Tower CNN admits parts of Mueller’s probe “unconnected to the 2016 elections” Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.com August 4, 2017 Desperate to politically damage President Trump to lay the grounds for impeachment, Robert Mueller’s investigation into “Russian collusion” now includes material “unconnected to the […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: collusion, includes, investigation, rented, russian, tenants, witch No Comments »Tenants March To Stop Giveaways To Wall Street Landlords
July 19th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Margie Mathers, a housing activist with MH Action, speaking at the Tenant March on Washington, July 12, 2017. While Republicans are proposing severe cuts to low-income housing assistance, they are continuing to subsidize Blackstone and other private equity housing profiteers. It was a brutally hot and humid day in the nation’s capital and Margie […]
White House: North Korea’s Self Reliant H-bomb Claim Is Unreliable
December 11th, 2015 Awake Goy North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s claims that his country possesses an H-Bomb has been questioned by the White House. The threat of an H-Bomb detonation from North Korea, the last staunch communist nation on the planet and one of the poorest, has been noted and disregarded, by the most financially advanced and blessed nation on […]
No Charges For Chicago Cop Filmed Shooting Ronald Johnson In The Back – Family Allege “Cover-Up”
December 8th, 2015 Awake Goy The Chicago police department is in the spotlight again after Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said during a press conference on Monday that officer George Hernandez will not face charges despite dash-cam video showing him shoot down a fleeing man in the back. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Ronald “Ronnieman” Johnson left a party at around […]
Posted in World News Tags: Baltimore, court, evicts, landlords, privileges, rent, tenants No Comments »Is Global Research “Anti-American”?
November 6th, 2015 Awake Goy Last week we initiated the 2015 Global Research Fund Raiser. We thank our readers for their unbending support. In response to our campaign, I received an email from a concerned reader who expressed “doubt” because Global Research “had become increasingly ‘Anti-American’”. I emailed back and reassured him: Global Research is not “Anti-American”. Quite the opposite, we […]
