But tenants with excess space face a more troubling economic equation.

But all other tenants face eviction within four years and three months after the conversion is registered.

Even if those safety violations could be corrected quickly, the tenants could face a more serious problem.

There the occupancy is 94 percent, the management says, but many tenants face much higher rents as leases come due over the next five years.

The program attempts to insure that tenants facing eviction know their legal rights and receive due process of law.

The 71-year-old federation helps battered women, homeless people and tenants facing eviction.

In the past, the city's prevention efforts have been largely limited to paying the back rent of certain tenants facing eviction.

And landlords and tenants face each other with equal financial acumen.

"This will mean that more than 1.3 million private tenants face the new year with dread - facing an uncomfortable prospect of homelessness or debt."

Well, I mean, of course we recognise the difficulty that many tenants will have will face in meeting this rent increase.