A tight-knit group of neighbors in Haverstraw is being pulled apart, as a real estate firm is planning a massive housing upgrade in the community.

Now, neighbors of the Oak Tree Lane bungalows are protesting. Their main demand from their landlord? More time to find a new home.

Tenant Sharon Sierra is not sure where her 8-year-old daughter will go to school next year because she is still unsure where the family will be living in next year.

Sierra displayed a formal notice she said she and other tenants received from their landlord — Alexander Properties — stating that tenants must leave the bungalows by Nov. 30.

Sierra has been struggling in her search for a new rental home. She said she has found available units in Orange County, but not within 20 miles of Haverstraw.

“I have three papers I just handed over to my Section 8 worker,” she said. “Most of them are already taken, or too much money that I can’t fit it in my budget.”

Town officials said Wednesday the firm is planning to tear down the deteriorating bungalows and build market-rate rental homes.

Tenants said the landlord has been helpful in many aspects, offering cash payments, assistance in their searches and credit counseling. Neighbors appreciate the offerings, but said their greatest need is permanent housing, of which there is a crisis-level shortage in Rockland County.

Sierra, her neighbors, legal experts and Sen. James Skoufis gathered at the bungalow colony to protest Alexander Properties’ notices to tenants. Skoufis said the firm is not obeying by the state’s eviction moratorium by telling tenants to leave by Nov. 30, while the moratorium runs through Jan. 15, 2022.

“This made-up order is in direct violation of New York State law so long as a tenant has signed a COVID hardship declaration,” Skoufis said.

Many tenants, including Sierra, have already filed hardship declarations.

Town Supervisor Howard Phillips said Wednesday he had been told by the property manager that it could take up to a year to place all the remaining 18 tenants in new homes.

Phillips said about 50 tenants have already been placed in new homes through a concerted effort by the landlord. Several of the remaining tenants said they were only told to leave by Nov. 30 through the notices.

The property manager was not immediately available for comment Wednesday.