Michael O. Allen

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  • Rudy: Plan Won’t Spur Evictions By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

    Friday, Aprill 11, 1997 Mayor Giuliani yesterday said the city won’t evict current tenants of city public housing as part of an effort to place higher-earning residents in the buildings. The mayor and Housing Authority officials also said they would not immediately try to relax the federal rule that bars charging tenants more than 30%…

  • They Rent & Rave To Ax Hikes By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

    Wednesday, March 12, 1997 Facing an unprecedented loss of state rent protections, hundreds of tenants packed a municipal hearing yesterday and called on the City Council to preserve the regulations. Carrying signs and shouting at landlord advocates, the tenants demanded that the Council meet an April 1 deadline for reauthorizing laws that restrict the size…

  • City Hall Protesters Rally for Rent Control

    February 27, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Hundreds of placard-waving tenants rallied outside City Hall yesterday to denounce landlords and politicians and demand renewal of threatened state rent protection. The tenants, worried that state lawmakers will allow the laws on more than a million city apartments to expire in June, applauded…