NYC housing courts are heavily biased toward the tenant. I discovered this long ago as a landlord. It is an extremely lengthy difficult and expensive process to evict bad tenants, even those who do not pay rent for months. For this reason NYC landlords insist on good credit and some of my fellow NYC landlords have become obsessed with perfect 700+ credit scores for would be tenants. Landlords relying on one or a handful of tenants to pay mortgages can run into serious financial trouble fast if a tenant stops paying rent. This in itself has perpetuated the homeless crisis in NYC. Landlords do not want to take the chance on ‘voucher’ tenants who do not work and have terrible credit. Programs like FEHPS have proven not to pay rent on time and stop paying the rent for many months. These voucher programs are contributing to the cycle of evictions and homelessness. D. Feeney