Tenants Rights Are Immigrants' Rights / Los derechos de inquilinxs son derechos de inmigrantes
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LEDA Law specializes in protecting families that have endured substandard housing due to the oppressive conduct of their landlords. LEDA strives to help clients transition to safe, habitable housing and recover for their personal injuries and economic losses related to their tenancy. "We are a contingency fee practice, which means that we do not bill our clients hourly for our time, but collect our fee at the end of a case from the settlement or judgment we obtain on behalf of our clients.
We answer emails and calls on a regular basis and we have meetings open to community members on the first and third Wednesday of every month. To attend meetings, email or call to be sent a zoom link.
Our landlord became upset after learning my girlfriend rightfully moved in the home. She began making life difficult by shutting off power, water, cable, cancelling home security services, house cleaner and gardener. When we called the utilities companies we were told that the landlord claims there are unauthorized tenants in her home and did not authorize utility services at the residence of which we rightfully and lawfully lease, with a signed legal and active lease agreement in place.
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Dale Duncan is trying to be a nice guy. He’s trying real, real hard. But, sometimes, it’s just too much. Anne Kihagi is just too much. And not just sometimes.
“I’m not a big schadenfreude guy,” says the former Kihagi tenant who, last year, won a $3.5 million ruling against his erstwhile landlord after a fraudulent eviction from his family’s longtime Mission District flat — purportedly the largest such judgment in state history. “But,” he continues after a thoughtful pause, “It’s hard not to feel some schadenfreude right now.”
Rats left to breed unchecked. Heat and electricity cut off. Landlords demanding to see tenants’ IDs. Those are only a few of the tenant harassment tactics detailed in a new report that chronicles one of New York’s more insidious problems: predatory equity.
I am being retaliatiated against, extortion, grievance hearings cancelled, private property searched during inspections, charging tenants for wear and tear, not giving disabled with ssa bebeno due process, constructive eviction for tenant organizing and speaking up when PHA breaks its own rules..too abundant to list.