Everyone knows that New York City is an expensive place to live, but recently it has been getting even worse. It is starting to get impossible for families who have been living in New York City for decades to continue living there. According to an ongoing report by Cezary Podkul for ProPublica, some landlords in NYC are supporting gentrification in the city by using leasing law loopholes to hike up their tenant’s rents considerable amounts for no discernible reason. Not all landlords are running middle-class families out of the city, though. Dimitrios Paliouras, a landlord in the city says he will not use that loophole to make more money for himself because he is happy as long as his tenants continue to pay their agreed upon rent amount every month.