Video: NY Tenants Respond to COVID-19 Housing Crisis with Call to Cancel the Rent

By Hayley Vaughn, M.S. ’20

April 1, 2020 — With coronavirus forcing New Yorkers inside and out of work, many people are wondering how they’ll pay the rent. Hayley Vaughn talks with New York tenants and landlords about the growing housing crisis and what can be done to help.

Hayley Vaughn is an M.S. student in the Class of 2020 at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She produced this story for Video Newsroom, a production seminar at the school.