This Brooklyn landlord with diabetes is clashing with tenant over 1st-floor unit, unpaid rent — but tenant is going nowhere and accuses him of harassment. Who’s right?

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A landlord-tenant showdown is unfolding in Borough Park, and it’s raising questions about housing rights, health needs and who gets to decide who stays and who goes.

Landlord Aneiello DeGiuda, a diabetic homeowner in a multi-family building, says climbing the stairs has become too much for him. He wants to move into the more accessible first-floor unit — but it’s already occupied by his tenant, Kenyatta Blakely…

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