Eviction moratorium exception: Nearly 100 basement apartments hit with vacate orders during pandemic
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Even as a pandemic eviction moratorium shields many New Yorkers, the city’s housing agency has ejected scores of tenants from basement apartments and other unauthorized dwellings, records show.
Department of Housing Preservation and Development inspectors issued 95 vacate orders for illegal occupancy between March and October of this year.