China News Service, April 25. According to the US "World Journal" report, the New York City government is considering to allow stable renters to significantly increase rents from the second half of this year. The rent increase of one-year leases can reach 2.7% to 4.5%, and two years. Rent increases for time leases can range from 4.3% to 9%.

However, for more small Chinese tenants, the biggest problem they are facing now is that some tenants do not pay their rent and are still relying on it.

　　During the presidency of former Mayor de Blasio, the rent increase of stable renters in New York was roughly controlled at the level of 1.5% for one year and 2.75% for two years. Two-year leases rose 4.3% to 9%.

　　He Delin, the founding president of the rights group "Little Landlords in New York", believes that this is due to inflation. If the rent is not raised, the landlord will really go bankrupt; result.

　　Because the definition of stable rent is an old building with six or more housing units, a sharp increase in rent is naturally good news for big landlords, but He Delin believes that most Chinese landlords in New York rent out one to three housing units. Small landlords, stable rent and rent increase have little impact on them. What really affects Chinese landlords is the situation that tenants do not pay rent since the epidemic began, but they can't get rid of them, causing landlords to feel very headaches.

　　A 50-year-old landlady surnamed Wu in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, since the outbreak began, the tenant has not paid the rent for more than a year, and the two sides have a dispute. Instead, the male tenant falsely accused the landlady of beating others. The two parties went to court for this, and the judge finally A judgment was made in favor of the landlord.

　　But even so, due to the continuation of the epidemic, the landlord could not evict the tenant until the housing court was opened. It was not until the eviction ban was lifted in January that the landlord surnamed Wu was able to sue the tenant in the housing court.

　　Another case happened on Long Island. The landlord surnamed Song rented out the house, but in addition to paying the rent normally in the first few months, the tenant has been looking for various reasons for not paying the rent in the past three years. complain.

The landlord surnamed Song later investigated and found that the tenant had been in conflict with various landlords for 22 years and did not pay the rent. He was a "reciprocal offender".

Only recently did the landlord evict the tenant.

　　He Delin said that from March 2020 to January 2022, the ban on eviction during the epidemic was implemented for a total of 22 months. The organization received many similar complaints during this period. Now the housing court has returned to normal, and landlords can pass the court. Drive out bad tenants, but because of the large number of backlogs, the progress of the case processing is still relatively slow.

(Hu Shengqiao)