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Just to clarify a confusion8/31/2023 ![]() ![]() “It’s going to snowball at some point and it’s going to start rolling down the hill. “When you see that line stretch down the block and wrap around the corner, you’ll know things are back to normal,” Auwarter said. On Monday morning, there were never more than 10 people waiting to enter and speak with a clerk. Prior to the pandemic, hundreds would queue up along Grand Concourse to enter the court and judges held hearings in elevator bays. “It will be a gradual uptick,” said BronxWorks Assistant Executive Director Scott Auwarter, whose office overlooks the line outside Bronx Housing Court. But they say it will likely lead to an uptick in new filings and force more and more tenants to visit court in-person. Housing experts say the ruling cut to the core of the eviction ban, but is not likely to fuel an immediate surge in evictions because cases take months to resolve, and housing courts are already strained. 12 specifically struck down a provision in the state law that allowed tenants to use “financial hardship declaration forms”-sworn statements that they were financially impacted by the COVID crisis-as an automatic defense against eviction. The decision has added another layer of fear and frustration for tenants, landlords and their representatives as they contend with the state’s ongoing eviction rules. Supreme Court blocked a key piece of New York’s eviction moratorium, giving property owners a chance to argue their cases against tenants who owe back rent in housing court. ![]() Ortiz’s notice arrived two days after the U.S. “I don’t want them to drop me out of the apartment.” The property owner and management company did not respond to requests for comment. Ortiz said she thought she had done everything right to avoid eviction and make her landlord whole. On Saturday night, however, she received a notice from her LLC landlord informing her that they planned to start eviction proceedings. She, like many others who applied for the rent relief, is still waiting. Her employer cut her hours and she has struggled to catch up on her arrears, she said, but she filed for aid through the state’s $2.2 billion Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) in early June. Ortiz said she owes about $3,000 in rent dating back to late last year, when she fell behind after missing a month of work because she had COVID-19. Monday clutching two bags of housing documents, including her rental assistance application number and email print-outs proving her correspondence with the management company that runs her building. Nursing home aide Ruth Ortiz stood outside Bronx Housing Court at 9 a.m. 16, days after the Supreme Court struck down a central part of New York’s COVID eviction moratorium. More so, certainly, than telling the world that you use the wrong “their” there.Īs Dorsey notes, however, “Not saying that we are going to launch that but those are the sorts of questions we are going to ask.David BrandBronx Housing Court on Aug. ![]() It could be an interesting feature for news outlets, not to mention all of the now-famous folk who might have tweeted something questionable back in the day. Think of it like a quote retweet, albeit one that’s permanently attached. Users then would only be able to retweet the clarification. The idea is to add context that would be lost in all of the retweeted screencaps that went out after the original was deleted. To clarify the clarification (which, one imagines, would get a slightly punchier name ahead of launch), the feature would essentially add a permanent addition to the original problematic tweet. “There’s no credible way to kind of go back and clarify or even have a conversation to show the learning and the transition since.” “The other thing that we’re seeing more broadly within the culture right now in this particular moment is people quote-unquote ‘being cancelled’ because of past things that they’ve said on Twitter or various other places in social media,” the executive said in quote reported by Recode. ![]() The feature, it seems, is less aimed at the typo part of the equation than the whole ongoing thing with people living to regret some horrible thing they said to the world years prior. Fittingly, there’s a bit of confusion around the longstanding suggestion that the service could add an “edit” button in order to save users from silly typos and, well, much, much worse.Īt a Goldman Sachs event this week, Jack Dorsey clarified that, rather than adding a controversial edit function, Twitter might just let people “clarify” earlier statements. Clarification hasn’t always been Twitter’s strong suit. ![]()
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