Posted on June 3, 2015 by Nikita Stewart in The New York Times The New York Times, By Nikita Stewart When Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation a year ago that increased the number of older New Yorkers eligible to have their rents frozen, he called it a “godsend” and an “extraordinary lifeline” for people whose incomes could not keep pace with the cost of living. But as the rent-freeze program, which is publicly funded, expanded to include thousands of more households, the city quietly moved to purge some from the rolls, and in the process kicked out a number of poor people even though they were eligible, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the city’s public advocate and lawyers for low-income tenants.
