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Tenants at Brooklyn’s Rutland Plaza are staging a rent strike and suing after years of neglect—black mold, broken elevators, and raw sewage plague the building despite $96 million in state funding promised for repairs. With hundreds of thousands of housing violations ignored for over a year across NYC, residents demand accountability as officials struggle with outdated systems. One tenant described living in a building where it was “literally raining inside,” while others fear eviction but refuse to pay rent for unsafe conditions. The landlord’s history of violations and the misuse of public funds have drawn scrutiny from local lawmakers, turning this into a citywide fight for safe, livable housing.

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