[COMM-ORG] Metropolitan Council on Housing: share stories

Tue Sep 27 15:17:25 CDT 2011

From: Metropolitan Council on Housing <active at metcouncil.net>

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Has Met Council on Housing Helped You?

Can You Share Your

Success Story with Us?

Every year, 8,000 individual tenants are assisted on Met Council on
Housing's telephone
hotline or at our walk-in clinic. Are you one of those people?

Over the past 50 years, Met Council on Housing members and staff have
helped to
organize thousands of tenants' associations. Did Met Council play a key
role in
your building's struggle?

Please share your story - whether it was decades ago or in the past few
months.
We're soliciting success stories from members and others who have been
helped in
 their struggle for decent, affordable housing - whether by organizing,
at our clinic,
or on our hotline. Also, please share your stories of your involvement
in our campaigns
and struggles for affordable housing rights!
Share your story!
Begin by emailing your story to: success at metcouncil.net
[mailto:success at metcouncil.net]
Have you been helped but haven't yet joined Met Council on Housing as a
member?
Please join or donate today:
Download our membership form (PDF)
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Housing Notebook

Voice of the Tenant Movement

Scott Sommer will host Housing Notebook on Monday, September 26, at 8PM.
Tune in
 to Housing Notebook for the latest developments in struggles across New
York and
around the world for decent, affordable housing for all.

Housing Notebook, a production of the Metropolitan Council on Housing,
normally
airs Mondays on WBAI, 99.5 FM, from 8 to 9 PM in the New York
metropolitan area,
 and on the Internet at www.wbai.org
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Programs are archived for 90 days at www.archive.wbai.org
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News You May Have Missed

Court backs city cut of homeless program
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In a blow to as many as 16,000 formerly homeless people, a state judge
ruled on
September 13 that the Bloomberg administration has the legal right to
end a rent
 subsidy program after state and federal budget cuts left the city as
its lone funder.

Housing bust; busted housing
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A revolving door of owners intent on making a quick killing are

overpaying, underinvesting, and condemning hundreds of properties to a
pattern of
neglect, disrepair, and foreclosure. At least 80,000 units in New York
City are
in jeopardy.

Deal would settle tenants' harassment suit
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A settlement deal been has been reached in a class-action lawsuit
against Pinnacle
Group, a notorious predatory-equity landlord

alleged to have engaged in a systemic pattern of harassment, unlawful
rent increases,
and aggressive eviction attempts. The $2.5 million settlement - which
can be used
to assist current and former tenants in pursuing claims for damages - is
controversial,
with some affected tenants disappointed that the deal wasn't stronger.
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ARE YOU A MEMBER OF MET COUNCIL ON HOUSING?

Join the Metropolitan Council on Housing today and get involved in the
fight for
 decent, affordable housing!
Our members are the heart and soul of our work - leading our campaigns,
volunteering,
and providing nearly all of our financial support! We depend on the
efforts, and
 the membership dues, of people like you, for everything that we do.
To become a member and learn about the important work of Met Council on
Housing,
 go to: metcouncil.net/join.htm
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Members receive a free subscription to our monthly publication,
Tenant/Inquilino.
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TENANTS' RIGHTS TELEPHONE HOTLINE:

Call Met Council on Housing's tenants' rights telephone hotline at
212-979-0611
between the hours of 1:30 and 5:00 PM on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, for brief
answers to questions about your rights as a tenant, help in organizing a
tenant
association in your building, or referrals.
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TUESDAY NIGHT
HOUSING CLINIC

Met Council on Housing's free clinic offers tenants assistance with
landlord-tenant
disputes.
We meet at the offices of the Cooper Square Committee, located at 61
East 4th Street
in Manhattan, every
Tuesday at 6:30pm. Please arrive by 6:30 in order to be served.
By subway: 6 to Astor Place; F to 2nd Avenue; or N/R to 8th Street.
Please bring all paperwork associated with your case.
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In Solidarity,
Metropolitan Council on Housing

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