Bringing it Home: The Affordability Battles of 2015
Foiled in Albany, Tenant Advocates Win NYC Rent Freeze
Jarrett Murphy |
Read the order that will affect rents on nearly a million stabilized apartments in New York City.
Affordable Housing
A Brief History of Rent Guidelines Board Decisions
Jarrett Murphy |
The RGB’s annual decision on rent increases for nearly a million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City comes amid talk of a first-ever rent freeze or rollback. Here’s a quick look at the hikes the panel has approved since 1968.
Bringing it Home: The Affordability Battles of 2015
Does Albany’s 2015 Ending Mean Progressive Window is Closed?
Jarrett Murphy |
The failure to achieve substantial rent reform, a higher minimum wage and other priorities of the left make some wonder if a brief opening for progressive legislation has slammed shut.
Housing and Homelessness
Calls for NYCHA Head’s Ouster Say de Blasio is to Blame
Batya Ungar-Sargon |
A group of NYCHA residents and advocates say the mayor has been slow to address NYCHA’s problems and want the authority’s chairwoman ousted so the mayor can run the authority personally. But others leapt to chair Shola Olatoye’s defense.
Age Justice
Seniors’ Housing Needs are a Special Challenge
Suzanne Travers |
Rents are rising for seniors as they are for everyone else. But a fixed income, vulnerability to harassment and age-related physical impairments raise the housing stakes for elder New Yorkers.
Bringing it Home: The Affordability Battles of 2015
Tenant Groups Detest Rent Law Deal, Unions Praise 421-a Move
Jarrett Murphy |
Mayor de Blasio saw hopes for permanent mayoral control of schools dashed at the state capitol, while tenant leaders decried Gov. Cuomo’s lack of action on their behalf.
Bringing it Home: The Affordability Battles of 2015
Passing Rent Laws is One Thing. How About Enforcing Them?
Jillian Jonas |
Some advocates believe that whatever rent regime is ultimately approved by state legislators, the state agency charged with enforcing them will need more resources to do so.
Bringing it Home: The Affordability Battles of 2015
Timeline of Failure: How NYS Got to a Rent Laws’ Lapse
Jillian Jonas |
As of now, New York State has no rent regulations. But it has plenty of blame to go around.
Bringing it Home: The Affordability Battles of 2015
Reform, Interrupted: Study Up for Round 2 of Debate Over 421-a
Jillian Jonas |
Ambitions to kill it are dashed. Hopes to reform it are faint. The smart money is now on legislators renewing 421-a as is for a very short spell. Here’s a preview of what we’ll be arguing about in, say, December.
Albany
Where is Jeff Klein in the Rent Regulations Debate?
Jillian Jonas |
Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo, Speaker Heastie and others have made their positions on rent regulations and 421-a known. Now we hear from the head of a breakaway Democratic faction.
