Featured Story: Last Week Tonight on Evictions, Rent Strikes and #CancelRent

Recent News Coverage:

• "Right to Counsel bills for Tenant Protection Approve by Majority Vote in City Council," AMNY, April 2021
• "Manhattan Council Member Levine Looks to Boost Right to Counsel Law for Tenants," AMNY, April 2021
• "NY Renters in Covid Hot Spots are Four Times More Likely to Face Eviction," New York Times, March 2021  
• "NY Bans Most Evictions as Tenants Struggle to Pay Rent," Channel News Asia, January 2021
• "With Evictions Looming, Advocates Urge NYC to Accelerate Right to Counsel," Queens Eagle, December 2020
• "We Need Real Housing Relief for All Tenants," The Progressive, December 2020
• "The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord," NYT, October 2020
• "The Pandemic Has Exposed How Broken Our Housing System Is," Gen Medium, August 2020
• "State Extends Pandemic Eviction Moratorium but Advocates Say Tenants Remain Under Threat," City Limits, August 2020
• "COVID IX: Evictions," Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, June 2020
• "As Moratorium Starts to Lift, Preparing for an Eviction Wave," Shelterforce, June 2020
• "A Moratorium on Evictions Ends, Leaving Thousands of Tenants Fearful," New York Times, June 2020 
• "NYC Renters Protest Housing Court Amid Coronavirus," Patch, June 2020
• "Staving Off an Eviction Crisis by Expanding New Yorkers' Right to Counsel," Opinion piece by the RTC bill sponsors Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson, Gotham Gazette, June 2020
• "With Housing Courts Set To Reopen, New York City Tenants Demand Protections Against Evictions," Forbes, June 2020 
• "Eviction Friction," Manhattan Times, June 2020 
• "NYC Prepares for Mass Evictions as Moratorium Nears End," Patch, June 2020
• "For Striking NYC Tenants with Notorious Landlords, The Problem Is Not Just COVID 19," The Appeal, May 2020 
• "Opinion: The Cuomo's New Order Opens the Door to Evictions," City Limits, May 2020  
• "The Covid-19 Rent Crisis Is Here," Wired, May 2020
• "Tenants Demand Rent Cancelation For At Least Four Months," #RentStrike," Bklyner, May 2020
• "Thousands of New Yorkers launch rent strike amid coronavirus outbreak," PIX 11, May 2020
• "One-Third Of U.S. Tenants Didn’t Pay Their Rents For April, May Could Be Worse," International Business Times, Apr. 2020
• Interview with Sundai Bestman, Tenant Leader at the Flatbush Tenant Coalition, WBAI 99.5 FM,  April 2020
• Interview with Susanna Blankley, Coordinator of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition,WBAI 99.5 FM New York, Apr. 2020
• "Coronavirus May Lead To Mass Rent Strikes In NYC: Advocates," Patch, Apr. 2020
• "Tenants Advocates Organize Rent Strike In New York Amid Pandemic," WCBS 880, Apr. 2020
• "April's Rent Is Due But I've Lost Income. What Are My Options?," Curbed, March 2020
• "With Cuomo Silent On Relief, Some Desperate NYC Tenants Say 'There's No Choice, But To Rent Strike," The Gothamist, March 2020
• "Rent Freeze Proposed For NYC Tenants Struggling During Pandemic," NY1, March 2020
• "Coronavirus rent crisis: ‘Millions of Americans will have trouble paying rent this month’," Curbed, March 2020 
• "As virus grips nation, advocates move to halt evictions for people of color," Associated Press, March 2020
• "Tenant advocates celebrate temporary eviction moratorium," Queens Daily Eagle, March 2020
• "Tenants Face Eviction Uncertainty in Time of Coronavirus," NBC News, March 2020
• "Courts Offer Chance to Delay Eviction and Other Cases Over Illness," The City, March 2020 

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