ALBANY — New York’s small landlords are taking out second mortgages, cashing life insurance policies and other last-resort measures to stay afloat as they fight to access COVID-19 assistance promised
Landlords rally against eviction ban | The Daily Gazette
SECTIONS
ERICA MILLER/THE DAILY GAZETTE
Landlords hold their signs outside the steps of Governor Andrew Cuomo s mansion on Eagle Street as landlords protest lifting the eviction ban in New York State in Albany on Thursday, February 18, 2021.
Shares0
Dandeago “Romeo” Budhoo, owner of 18 rental units across 10 buildings, mostly in Mont Pleasant and Hamilton Hill neighborhoods of Schenectady, said he is owed about $30,000 in rent that should have been paid by now.
The landlord, a native of Guyana, said he has six delinquent tenants that won’t pay up, and there’s nothing he can do about it due to the moratoriums on evictions that were put in place due to the the COVID-19 pandemic.