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  • Medical Treatment Should Be My Choice, Not My Landlord’s

    Gotham Gazette: Treatment

    A rally by Three-Quarter House Tenant Organizing Project


    The landlord gave him a choice: go back to using heroin or be kicked out onto the streets. “Do what you do,” the landlord told him. So to keep a roof over his head, after nine months clean and sober, he got high. The landlord let him stay. Strange as this may sound, it was routine where I used to live, and for thousands of tenants across New York City.

    I used to live in a “three-quarter house.” These are private, for-profit buildings, where as many as ten tenants may

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