The proposed laws would not shutter the three-quarter industry, but tenants’ advocates said they should improve the homes, if signed by the mayor and enforced. “It’s pretty exciting,” said Matthew Main, a lawyer with MFY Legal Services, a nonprofit that has worked extensively with three-quarter house tenants. Even if tenants said they were not addicted to drugs, they had to go to outpatient substance-abuse programs picked by Mr. Baumblit. But dozens, if not hundreds, of homes still operate, unregulated, throughout the city, housing advocates say. Now he is working at a restaurant, and volunteering as a leader at the Three-Quarter House Tenant Organizing Project.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2017 23:38 UTC