In New York City, working-class tenants and homeowners are often victimized by predatory landlords and real estate developers. These horror stories are the result of treating housing as a wealth-building commodity rather than a basic human need.

The storylines in Slumlord Millionaire, the documentary about the struggle of New York City tenants and homeowners confronting predatory real estate interests’ fast-gentrifying neighborhoods that is opening in theaters in New York today, are disturbing.

The youngest son of the Bravo family in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, struggles with asthma, like over 300,000 other New York children, his condition deeply connected to the mold and rodent droppings that the landlord has refused to remedy. The residents of Chinatown, one of the last working-class neighb

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