For months, the COVID-19 pandemic left Brooklyn resident Felix Guzman out of work and unable to keep up with his rent. When he finally secured a job, the pay still wasn't enough to catch up on the arrears that mounted over seven months.
Then Guzman received a letter from his landlord: pay up or face eviction proceedings.
"The landlord is able to flip these apartments, take good people out of these apartments and then when they are displaced they enter a shelter system that there is no way out of," Guzman said during a meeting with tenant advocates and local lawmakers Wednesday. "Why is permanent displacement more feasible to the city than actually providing assistance?"
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For months, the COVID-19 pandemic left Brooklyn resident Felix Guzman out of work and unable to keep up with his rent. When he finally secured a job, the [...]
