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Landlords Feel Overlooked During the Pandemic By Susan Arbetter New York State PUBLISHED 6:08 PM ET Dec. 10, 2020 PUBLISHED 6:08 PM EST Dec. 10, 2020
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Capital Tonight that the law in place purporting to be an eviction moratorium, “The Tenants Safe Harbor Act,” doesn’t save many tenants from eviction and needs to be either fixed, scrapped, or replaced.
“All this law affords is an affirmative defense to an eviction, so landlords have every right to sue tenants no matter what the situation is that they’re in,” said Felts, executive director of United Tenants of Albany.
But the act, which was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo in June, and sponsored by Senator Brad Hoylman and Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, looks different from the landlords’ perspective.