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The panel that decides how much landlords can hike the rent on nearly a million stabilized apartments has four hearings coming up. But you don’t have to show up to…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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May 2015

Housing and Homelessness

The Lessons of the Tall Guy: Closing Chapter Nears for Housing-Agency Scandal

A former HPD official referred to as “the Tall Guy” in court papers is due to be sentenced soon for his role in a major Bloomberg-era bribery scandal. With a…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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May 2015

Opinion

A Call to Ban Landlords’ Non-Rent Fees to Tenants

Fees for appliances like washing machines or air conditioners, legal fees, and other miscellaneous charges are confusing to tenants, often unexplained or unjustified and above all unaffordable.

ByJoseph Cepeda and Erin Markman 0Comments

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May 2015

Opinion

New York’s Rent-Reg Reforms Must Go Further

A tenant praises the mayor’s stance against vacancy decontrol and other aspects of the current system. But she argues that problems with preferential rents must also be addressed when Governor…

ByNatasha Creese 5Comments

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May 2015

Housing and Homelessness Investigations NYCHA

Tenants’ Voice Lacks Power as NYCHA Faces Crucial Chapter

The Housing Authority’s Tenant Associations are supposed to rally residents to fight for their interests. But while some leaders (like Jonathan Gardenhire, above, the vice president of Smith Houses’ TA)…

ByBatya Ungar-Sargon 4Comments

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May 2015

Housing and Homelessness

De Blasio Announces Wish-List of Rent Regulation Reforms

The mayor wants to end vacancy decontrol and vacancy bonuses and limit the rent hikes a landlord can impose when a major capital project or individual apartment improvement is completed.

ByJarrett Murphy 9Comments

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May 2015

Opinion

Why We Must End Vacancy Decontrol to Save Rent-Regulated Housing

A Manhattan Assemblywoman explains why she’s authored the bill that would end the mechanism through which apartments that reach a certain rent exit the rent-stabilization system.

ByLinda Rosenthal 5Comments

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Apr 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Report: New Middle-Class Housing Program Possible

But a second-generation Mitchell-Lama program would have to reconcile some problematic rhetoric around class and resolve some of the flaws that have stripped affordability from tens of thousands of units…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Apr 2015

Housing and Homelessness Video

Key Housing Group Looking Past the Budget

The leader of the New York Housing Conference weighs in on wins and losses in Albany and what’s next on 421-a and rent regulations.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Apr 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Action Stalls on Bill to Provide Lawyers in Housing Court

A bill to create a right to counsel for many tenants in housing court has the support of most Council members and appears aligned with the mayor’s and speaker’s agendas.…

ByKate Pastor 0Comments

The Rent is Too Damn Nigh! When, Where and How to Testify to the City’s Rent Board

The Lessons of the Tall Guy: Closing Chapter Nears for Housing-Agency Scandal

A Call to Ban Landlords’ Non-Rent Fees to Tenants

New York’s Rent-Reg Reforms Must Go Further

Tenants’ Voice Lacks Power as NYCHA Faces Crucial Chapter

De Blasio Announces Wish-List of Rent Regulation Reforms

Why We Must End Vacancy Decontrol to Save Rent-Regulated Housing

Report: New Middle-Class Housing Program Possible

Key Housing Group Looking Past the Budget

Action Stalls on Bill to Provide Lawyers in Housing Court

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