Housing Notebook

• Topics of general interest to tenants, and specifically the struggle of a longtime Brooklyn resident fighting to stay in her home. -

50 YEAR TENANT BEING EVICTED!

Fifty years of paying rent and living by the rules are not always good enough when the landlord wants you out!Scott Sommer and Saba Amare spoke with Dolores Williams, a Brooklyn senior citizen living day-to-day as she fights her eviction.

Housing Notebook is a production of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, New York's oldest tenant union. 

• Dolores Williams, Brooklyn tenant -

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