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The apartment building provides an arresting riposte to the perception that urban living grows ever more atomised, not least in New York City. It also makes an irresistible backdrop for fiction writers and Sidik Fofana’s bravura debut, Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, shows just why that might be.Comprising eight interconnected tales, it’s set in Banneker Terrace, a low-income, high-rise in Harlem. Fofana draws his narrators from among the residents of its 300-plus homes, and while all may be black, their intensely…

For long-suffering tenants, rent relief may be finally on its way. Average apartment rents in metro Denver fell more in the fourth quarter than they did during the worst of the dot-com bust, the Great Recession and even the early months of the pandemic, with more declines likely as new units pour out into the market this year, according to an update Tuesday from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. The average apartment rent dropped from $1,870 in the third quarter to $1,838 in the fourth quarter, a decline of $32…

For six days Richard Dever sat in his tiny fifth-floor apartment on skid row, desperate for some fresh air. But the elevator at the Madison Hotel was broken again, and Dever, 82, could not make it down the stairs. Gaunt and short of breath from lung disease, Dever hunched on the edge of the bed, his mood darkening by the day.“What bothers me is that I cannot get out like everybody else and enjoy the world,” Dever said on the second day of his confinement. Richard Dever, 82, sits inside his room at the…

Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Happy new year to readers who use the Julian calendar. Let’s look back at the week in Opinion.Way back in the spring of 2020, The Times’ opinion journalists asked readers to tell us what permanent changes they wanted to see in California brought on by the nascent COVID-19 pandemic. That was about two months after the initial round of restrictions went into force, and at the time there was already plenty of agitation to declare our mitigation measures a…

To the editor: I agree with Mayor Karen Bass that a state of emergency needs to be implemented to tackle the myriad problems associated with homelessness in the city of Los Angeles. However, how is Bass going to prevent thousands of people from being pushed into homelessness when the emergency tenant protections end on Feb. 1, 2023, and evicted tenants will end up on the street? How will the mayor and other city officials urge landlords to accept housing vouchers like Section 8? Landlord discrimination against tenants…

Since 1990, Focus Plaza has been a landmark in the San Gabriel Valley.One of the first malls in the area to cater to Chinese customers, it remains a one-stop shop, offering groceries, eyeglasses, jewelry, herbal medicines and cuisines from many provinces.With competition from online retailers and glitzy shopping centers, the aging, 218,661-square-foot mall at West Valley Boulevard and Del Mar Avenue will soon get a face-lift, described in a leasing book as “bringing Bryant Park and Soho to San Gabriel.” The faux Spanish…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With the national squeeze in rental accommodation, Flinders University researchers say it's more important than ever that the South Australian Parliament legislate to uphold the rights of tenants with pets. Lack of legislative protection enables landlords to refuse applications from tenants with…

Airbnb is partnering with several major landlords and management companies to list designated apartment buildings where renters are allowed to offer short-term sublets on the site.The company said Wednesday that a new page on its website will list so-called Airbnb-friendly buildings, which will give tenants the option to host their apartments just as homeowners can.Typically, rental buildings prohibit tenants from subletting for short stays.To start, Airbnb is showcasing 175 apartment buildings in more than 25 major…

Eleven former residents of the closed and damaged Grand Apartments near Union Station have sued the building’s owner and manager, alleging they were wrongly evicted. The Grand required tenants to leave in August so that it could repair a long list of issues at the 24-story, 508-unit complex at 1777 Chestnut Place. Despite being only four years old, it has experienced flooding, power outages, mold, defective elevators and unsafe balconies. The former tenants filed their lawsuit Tuesday morning in Denver District Court.…

Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Low-income families already face an uphill battle in the housing market, but a recent study from a pair of public policy researchers at Northeastern suggests the hill might be even steeper. …