Quality of Life & Homelessness
This is one major problem caused by overcrowding in homeless shelters.
What is lack of privacy and increased stress?
This 1968 law protects tenants from housing discrimination.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
This building official often fails to respond to plumbing or repair issues.
Who is the superintendent?
This legal doctrine allows someone to claim ownership after long-term occupation.
What is adverse possession?
By 2022, about this percentage of NYC apartments were corporately owned.
What is 89%?
Beyond food and shelter, quality shelters should help build this for residents.
What are autonomy and trust?
This right guarantees heat, hot water, electricity, and plumbing.
What is the Warranty of Habitability?
These types of buildings are often not renovated because it doesn’t increase profit.
What are outdated apartment buildings?
In NYC, this many years of continuous occupation is usually required for adverse possession.
What is 10 years?
Corporate landlords charge about this much higher asking rent than mom-and-pop landlords.
What is 3% higher rent?
This condition in shelters often leads to sleep deprivation and exhaustion.
What is overcrowding?
Rent-stabilized tenants have the right to renew leases at these rates.
What are regulated rates?
This is a common tenant complaint used to pressure tenants out of apartments.
What is ignoring maintenance requests?
In 2008, NY required squatters to prove this belief about the property.
What is a reasonable basis that the property was theirs?
In 2003, corporate buyers dominated only this percentage of NYC zip codes.
What is 19%?
Many shelters fall short of providing these conditions for residents.
What are safe and humane living conditions?
Tenants are protected from eviction for up to this long after filing complaints.
What is one year?
Large real estate monopolies often avoid renovations because they don’t affect this.
What are profit margins?
During this period, squatters often received increased legal protection.
What was the COVID-19 pandemic?
Corporate landlords average this many more evictions per 100 units.
What is 1.5 more evictions?
This phrase describes shelters acting as protection despite being deeply flawed.
What is a strained safety net?
This loophole once allowed landlords to raise rents by combining apartments.
What is the Frankenstein Loophole?
These communities are disproportionately affected by corporate housing ownership
What are communities of color?
This requirement means occupation must be visible, continuous, and without permission.
What are the elements of adverse possession?
This is the central criticism of corporate landlords’ motivations.
What is prioritizing profit over tenants and communities?