Rent-stabilized occupants of Prospect-Lefferts Garden's Homewood Gardens Estates are accusing the building's owners of manipulating tenants to break their leases in order to land more affluent renters. Select tenants have filed a federal lawsuit against the complex and its owners claiming that, as part of the scheme, the site's landlord has failed to make requested repairs and cash rent checks in a timely manner. With PLG as hot as it is right now, the occupants at 436 Hawthorne Street may be right. [Crain's]
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