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Schenectady landlord group asks city for relief | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY Flustered city landlord Anand Dhanraj says four tenants owe him $26,000 accrued during the past 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’m struggling right now,” said Dhanraj, who owns eight units. “My family is suffering. Every dollar I get I’ve got to put towards the taxes, because I don’t want the city to take my properties.”
Dhanraj, who asked for help from local group Schenectady Landlords Influencing Change, said he’s been cursed at and reported to the police when he tried to collect rents.
“They call my wife a bitch,” he said. “They said we are harassing them for rent; we are not supposed to ask them for rent. The governor told them not to pay rent,” he said with a chuckle. “Right now we can’t even talk to them.”
SCHENECTADY – Following last week’s public hearing during which the city’s 24 proposed items toward police reform were criticized as not going far enough…
Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette
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All of Us leader Mikayla Foster speaks on the steps of City Hall during a press conference as they request changes to be made in city hall meetings for the voices to be heard during public hearings at Schenectady City Hall Monday
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SCHENECTADY The city’s draft police reform plan fails to go far enough to reforming the police, the majority of more than a dozen people who spoke at a City Council public hearing on the plan said Monday night.
Some speakers were members of All of Us, a community group that continues to push for consideration of 13 demands for reform it made last summer, in the middle of last summer’s nationwide Black Lives Matter movement against police-involved deaths of unarmed Black people and police brutality. Other speakers were members of the local clergy.
Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY The city’s draft police reform plan fails to go far enough to reforming the police, the majority of more than a dozen people who spoke at a City Council public hearing on the plan said Monday night.
Some speakers were members of All of Us, a community group that continues to push for consideration of 13 demands for reform it made last summer, in the middle of last summer’s nationwide Black Lives Matter movement against police-involved deaths of unarmed Black people and police brutality. Other speakers were members of the local clergy.