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Citing a need to address the looming problem of preferential rents without harming landlords who operate as small businesses, the Bronx borough president backs a law to prevent sudden rent…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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May 2018

Government Housing and Homelessness

Nixon Calls for Sweeping Reform of Rent Regulations

Hoping to broaden an issue that often is targeted only to residents of the five boroughs, the Democratic challenger proposed expanding the number of stabilized apartments statewide.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2018

Housing and Homelessness News

Alcántara on the Inwood Rezoning, Fixing Rent Regulations, and the IDC

As her neighborhood faces rezoning and she faces a primary challenger, we sat down with State Senator Marisol Alcántara for a Q&A.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 10Comments

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Dec 2017

Housing and Homelessness News NYCHA

Upstate, Downstate Call on Cuomo for Housing Reforms

A new statewide coalition has formed with the intention to push Cuomo and the state legislature for rent reforms, funding for public housing and more.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Jun 2016

Government

Unsettled Housing Issues Dog End of Albany Session

Gov. Cuomo’s $20 billion housing plan remains undefined, 421-a is still dead and proposals to alter rent regulations or repeal a cap on building height look unlikely to move.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Jun 2016

Economy

Trepidation Around Proposal for Regulating Store Rents in NYC

The Small Business Jobs Survival Act, which would establish a right to commercial lease renewal, has been kicking around City Council for three decades. Then as now, worries about economic…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 10Comments

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May 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Rent-Regulated Tenants in Limbo After East Village Gas Explosion

In the aftermath of the deadly March 26 blast, rent-stabilized tenants whose apartments were destroyed may have a right to return—depending on what happens at the site and who’s deemed…

ByHeather Dubin 6Comments

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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

Tenant Groups Push Assembly to Back Rent-Regs Bill

Tenant organizers are putting the pressure on Democrats who have yet to back a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal to repeal a mechanism blamed for stripping tens of thousands…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Mar 2015

Housing and Homelessness

NYC’s Endangered Species: A Rent-Controlled Apartment

Myth: Rent-controlled tenants get an unbelievable deal. Reality: They can be hit with huge annual rent increases. That’s why advocates want the shrinking number of rent-controlled apartments added to Albany’s…

ByKen Thorbourne 134Comments

Diaz Suggests Landlord Tax Break in Exchange for New Rent Curbs

Nixon Calls for Sweeping Reform of Rent Regulations

Alcántara on the Inwood Rezoning, Fixing Rent Regulations, and the IDC

Upstate, Downstate Call on Cuomo for Housing Reforms

Unsettled Housing Issues Dog End of Albany Session

Trepidation Around Proposal for Regulating Store Rents in NYC

Rent-Regulated Tenants in Limbo After East Village Gas Explosion

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

Tenant Groups Push Assembly to Back Rent-Regs Bill

NYC’s Endangered Species: A Rent-Controlled Apartment

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