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Attorney Christina Smyth will serve as one of the board’s two landlord representatives, while New York University Stern business school professor Arpit Gupta, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute,…

ByDavid Brand 5Comments

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Mar 2022

City Watch: Council’s New Housing Chair Wants Tougher Building Code Enforcement

“Although HPD and DOB are responding quickly to 311 complaints and sending out inspectors, there is a very troubling lag time and delay in terms of closure of these complaints,”…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

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Sep 2021

Housing and Homelessness Justice

Bronx Tenants Still Locked Out of Homes 18 Months After Fire

Tenants say they fear the property owners are waging a war of attrition, waiting the renters out until they give up, move on and forfeit the rent-regulated apartments.

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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Jun 2021

Economy Housing and Homelessness

NYC Rent Guidelines Board Sets Mid-Year Rate Hike for Stabilized Tenants

The board voted to freeze existing rents for six months before increasing rates for the remaining half of the year, what some members described as a compromise between what tenants…

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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May 2020

Housing and Homelessness

Rent Board’s Subtle Move Revives ‘Vacancy Bonus’

A one-word change in a preliminary document could lead to a court fight over what the 2019 rent law really said.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2020

Housing and Homelessness

Rent Freeze Moves Forward: Watch The Key Rent Guidelines Board Vote

The board voted to authorize a rent freeze on one-year leases and the first year of two-year leases, with the second year on those leases capped at 1 percent.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Apr 2020

Economy Housing and Homelessness

City’s Small Businesses Need Rent Stabilization to Survive COVID-19, Advocates Say

In 1945, near the end of the WWII, the city instituted commercial rent control as an emergency wartime measure, authorized by the state. Advocates are calling for a similar response…

ByBridget Bartolini 4Comments

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Mar 2020

Opinion

Opinion: Two RGB Members Agree with Mayor—NYC Needs a Rent Freeze Now

‘New Yorkers who live in rent-regulated units, the vast majority of whom have only low or moderate incomes, must be protected from the destructive financial impact of the coronavirus.’

ByLeah Goodridge

BySheila Garcia 8Comments

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Oct 2019

Housing and Homelessness

There Was a Dramatic Rewriting of the Rent Laws. What’s the Impact Been?

Is reality matching those predictions? Is it too early to tell? Have government agencies caught up with the dramatic reorientation of rent policies that the legislature approved?