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Tuesday, Aug 26 2008HIV-Positive Renters in New York City Leaving Homes Because of Foreclosures, New York Times ReportsAt least 50 HIV-positive renters in New York City have notified city housing organizations in the past few months that they had to leave their homes or have been evicted because of foreclosures and that they are having difficulty finding new homes, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, although the exact number of families affected by the nationwide housing crisis is unclear, officials have said HIV-positive renters are in a particular squeeze. Foreclosure rates in New York City have doubled between 2004 and 2007, according to a study by the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University. HIV-positive people face special difficulties when their rental homes go into foreclosure because of a lack of public funding to assist them and ineffective laws aimed at preventing landlords from discriminating against HIV-positive people, the Times reports. In addition, issues faced by HIV-positive tenants begin long before the eviction date, when landlords with nothing else to lose stop paying the utilities, according to the Times.The city s HIV/AIDS Services Administration provides adidas campus 00s rental assistance to HIV-positive people, and the City Council in March m stanley cups uk ade it illegal for landlords to air max 1 discriminate against rental applicants who receive federal, state and local housing assistance; however, the law applies only to buildings with six
