The Village Voice's Anna Merlan went long this week to try and figure out what can be done about the "pernicious — and growing — New York real estate problem [of] landlords who deliberately make their own buildings unlivable, through vandalism, harassment, nuisance construction, legal intimidation, and outright threats, as a way to drive out rent-stabilized tenants." Although there are laws on the books that are supposed to protect tenants in these types of situations, they have not proven to be effective. [Village Voice; previously]
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