The Long Road to Justice for NYC Wage Theft Victims
More than three years after 15 laundry workers first lodged their complaint with New York Attorney General Letitia James, the employees—all Latina immigrant women—finally received the first checks for their owed salaries. The case is emblematic of what can be a long road to justice for victims of wage theft, which lawmakers estimate impacts some 2.1 million New Yorkers each year.
The money recovered by the workers City Limits spoke to so far amounted to a couple thousand dollars each. “It wasn’t a lot of money, but it’s something,” one of the employees named Micaela, 41, said in Spanish. “We have succeeded in stopping them from continuing to abuse workers.”
Comptroller to Probe NYCHA Repairs and Evictions in First ‘Resident-Powered’ Audits The New York City Comptroller’s Office will investigate oversight of NYCHA contractors and eviction rates at privatized developments — the first of two probes under a new initiative that lets NYCHA tenants weigh in directly on public housing audits.Read the story.
NYC Housing Calendar, Feb. 23-March 1 City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.Read the story.
Opinion: City Policies Are Harming New York’s Homeless Youth “If Mayor Adams truly wants to make good on his promises to stem the homelessness crisis in the city and provide substantive mental health to the city’s youth, he must first make it easier, not harder, to access safe and affordable housing.”Read the story.
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¿Qué se dijo en la audiencia del Concejo de NY sobre la cooperación entre ICE y el DOC? Desde el 2011 el Concejo de la ciudad ha aprobado leyes para prohibir que el DOC retuviera a inmigrantes a menos que dicha persona hubiera sido condenada por un delito, fuera un acusado en un caso penal pendiente, tuviera una orden de detención penal pendiente, o fuera identificado como miembro de una pandilla o coincidiera en una base de datos de vigilancia terrorista. Leer el artículo.
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Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (CHLDC) is a multi-service, nonprofit community development organization and settlement house in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. The Tenant Counselor will counsel and represent low-income tenants to prevent eviction, secure apartment and building repairs, stop harassment, and otherwise resolve tenant-landlord conflicts.
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