"'This was supposed to be put in place to help out the tenants,” Orlandi said. “But they made the lines so blurred and all the words so vague that no one knows — not even lawyers, not even ChatGPT — no one knows what that even means.'"
@thecityreporter.nycDemolition isn’t so clear cut under New York’s Good Cause legislation.
The gray area is one of the few reasons a landlord can evict rent-paying tenants in unregulated apartments under the 2024 tenant protections law.
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To Evict Tenants, NYC Landlords Now Claim ‘Demolition.’ Is It Valid?
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