News — Rents

“Having a roof over your head and starving to death makes no sense” By Caroline Spivack   Shuttered stores and boarded up apartment windows on an East Village block in Manhattan.  One evening in late April, seated on the bed in her Brooklyn apartment, Melanie Wang shouted instructions into her cellphone on how to join a conference call to older tenants of a Manhattan building in Chinatown. After a flurry of phone calls, Wang wrangled just shy of a dozen residents onto the call, and in an instant, the chaos of coordinating a digital tenants meeting was replaced with a burst of...