Currently for Rent in Carroll Gardens
July 1, 2020 Screenshot from Apartments.com
In the past few weeks, as New York City has been dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, the sighting of moving vans here in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill has increased dramatically.
Many young families relocated to the suburbs or to Upstate New York to wait out the pandemic as soon as it became clear that residents had to quarantine.
They were followed by residents who decided to move back 'home' to be closer to family, giving up on their New York City dream.
And then, there are the many Carroll Gardeners who are committed to the neighborhood in good and bad times, but have lost their jobs and just can't afford to stay.
Friend and PMFA reader C. is currently in that situation and has the following question for you:
With rent due today, how are readers of PMFA who are apartment renters feeling about making July rent?
As you know, there are many renters in the neighborhood who have lost income because of the Coronavirus pandemic and state-wide lockdown.
In the building where I live, there are renters who have lost between 25% to 50% of their usual monthly income yet the property owners have not offered any form of Rent Relief to help their tenants. Rent is due as if life is normal.
We know of renters in other buildings in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill who have negotiated with their landlords or property managers for deferred rent or payment plans, allowing them to pay rent over installments. We know of one instance where May rent was outright forgiven.
After July 31, 2020, making the monthly rent will become an even bigger concern. That’s the week when the largest portion of the federal Pandemic Unemployment Emergency Compensation (PUEC) package is set to expire, and therefore any renters who have been able to survive through Unemployment Benefits or some form of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance that includes that weekly $600 payment will then have to do without.
Sadly, with moratoriums on evictions that were put in place in New York state due to the pandemic that have now since expired, this probably means an increase in evictions in August, and a lot more by September, October and November, 2020.
I'm not sure how we’re going to manage. How are your readers coping with this?
As you know, there are many renters in the neighborhood who have lost income because of the Coronavirus pandemic and state-wide lockdown.
In the building where I live, there are renters who have lost between 25% to 50% of their usual monthly income yet the property owners have not offered any form of Rent Relief to help their tenants. Rent is due as if life is normal.
We know of renters in other buildings in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill who have negotiated with their landlords or property managers for deferred rent or payment plans, allowing them to pay rent over installments. We know of one instance where May rent was outright forgiven.
After July 31, 2020, making the monthly rent will become an even bigger concern. That’s the week when the largest portion of the federal Pandemic Unemployment Emergency Compensation (PUEC) package is set to expire, and therefore any renters who have been able to survive through Unemployment Benefits or some form of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance that includes that weekly $600 payment will then have to do without.
Sadly, with moratoriums on evictions that were put in place in New York state due to the pandemic that have now since expired, this probably means an increase in evictions in August, and a lot more by September, October and November, 2020.
I'm not sure how we’re going to manage. How are your readers coping with this?
We would love to start a conversation about this issue. Have many people in your BoCoCa building moved lately? Will you have to move? Have you been able to renegotiating your rent with your landlord?
Above, we have included a map of currently available apartments in Carroll Gardens. There seem to be quite a lot on the market, which should mean that landlords face a lot of competition for their apartments. Perhaps this is not the time to raise the rent or to lose a good renter because of a reluctance to lower the rent.
We want to hear from you, renters, owners, real estate folks, or even business owners, since this affects you, too.
Our landlord wouldnt help but asked that we pay over three months to them for a small discount. Helps only them. Not tenants. So that’s our story.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous July 02, 2020 6:04 AM - That's crazy. I believe you but that's a shady move on the part of the landlord, which suggests that their finances are not in order. I hope you are taking steps to protect yourself.
ReplyDeleteI also wonder if that's even ethical, what they've asked you to do.
Our landlords have offered no help. They have zero F's to give about the pandemic and the lockdown and behave accordingly.
Those of us with young children had to leave. It's just not tenable: how can we be expected to work while our kids are at home with us? And I'm a life-long New Yorker, born and raised in Manhattan, been in Brooklyn for 12 years. Waiting it out in the Hudson Valley where it seems as if our 5 year old will have some semblance of normal kindergarten instead of virtual classes, which are horrible for young kids, two out of every three days.
ReplyDeleteBen, moving trucks are pulling up here every day. I imagine everyone with kids is reassessing NYC life at the moment
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