With distressed (mostly rent-stabilized) buildings trading hands for cheap, the NYT looks at what one tenant activist calls the "second wave of predatory investors using vacancy decontrol to evict tenants and jack up rents at the expense of affordable housing." Yep, harassment allegations are back in vogue, but where are all these mean new landlords coming from? Well, in the case of one portfolio of Bronx buildings, eBay! [NYT]
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