A NY Law Puts A Steep Price On 'Serious' Building Disrepair. These Tenants Are Fighting To Use It.

Brooklyn tenants are trying to dismantle barriers around a seldom-used 1960s-era law that can prohibit landlords from collecting rent when they fail to fix dangerous building conditions for months on end. The campaign just had its first breakthrough. 

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