Articles on Three-Quarter Houses

Kim Barker, Operator of Notorious Flophouses Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Fraud, New York Times, February 15, 2018

Naeisha Rose, Attorney General: Kickback Scheme Puts Tenants at Risk, Queens Times Ledger, September 7, 2017

Chelsia Rose Marcus & Stephen Rex Brown, Closing of Crooked Drug Rehab Chain’s Clinics Leaves Many Addicts in Limbo, NY Daily News, July 31, 2017

Tom Valentino, Laws Boost Protections for Three-Quarter House Tenants, Behavioral Healthcare Executive, March 22, 2017

Kim Barker, City Council Passes Bills to Protect Three-Quarter House Residents, New York Times, February 1, 2017

Daryl Gates, Three Quarter House Residents Demand Basic Right to Choose Their Own Health Care, Gotham Gazette, October 6, 2016

Kim Barker, NYC Council to Review 5 bills Reining in ‘Three-Quarter’ Homes, New York Times, April 18, 2016

Ben Bedell, Judge Bars Landlord From Harassing Three Quarter House Tenants, New York Law Journal, February 18, 2016

Graham Kates, Narco Freedom Residents to Get New Providers, CBS/AP, September 16, 2015

Kim Barker, Three Quarter House Operator Faces Criminal Charges, New York Times, August 10, 2015

Jake Bernstein, Inside a New York Drug Clinic Allegations of Kickbacks and Shoddy Care, ProPublica, September 9, 2013

Jake Bernstein, In Turnabout, N.Y. Moves to Shut Troubled Rehab Clinic, ProPublica, May 1, 2014

Patrick Arden, Deep Concerns About ‘Three-Quarter’ Housing, City Limits, March 7, 2012

Rosalind Adams, Sobering Conditions at Narco Freedom’s Three-Quarter Houses, Al Jazeera America, October 27, 2014

Maura Ewing, The Dangerous Zone Between a Halfway House and Freedom, Al Jazeera America, February 23, 2014

Lore Croghan, Three-Quarter House’ Operator Yury Baumblit Driving Us Out of Bed-Stuy Building, Tenants Charge, Daily News, January 3, 2012

Chris Glorioso, Addiction Clinic Accused of Inflating Medicaid Bills, Again, NBC New York, October 9, 2013

Lisa Riordan Seville and Graham Kates, Bleak Housing Options for Parolees and Recovering Addicts, Salon.com / The Crime Report, July 9, 2013

Lisa Riordan Seville and Graham Kates, The Narco Freedom Case: Who’s Watching the Caregivers?, The Crime Report, January 5, 2015

Ben Kochman and Stephen Rex Brown, Cops Arrest Executives at City Rehab Chain Narco Freedom on New Charges, Daily News, March 18, 2015

Rick Bockmann, City Shuts Illegal Boarding House, Times Ledger, April 26, 2012

 Rick Bockmann, Landlord Admits Misdeeds, Times Ledger, April 15, 2012

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