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Hundreds head out for tenant rally
Tenants carry signs at a rally for stronger rent laws. (Photos by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot On Thursday night, hundreds of tenants and housing activists and numerous politicians gathered to rally...
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Letters to the Editor, June 4
Cartoon by Jim Meadows Garodnick: How rent laws in current state have been used to raise rents in ST/PCV The following is an open letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo from Council Member Dan Garodnick. Dear...
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Letters to the Editor, June 11
Cartoon by Jim Meadows Tenants Assoc. to Cuomo: Loopholes in rent laws are eroding Stuy Town’s stability Dear Governor Cuomo, I’m writing on behalf of the 25,000 residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter...
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Rent regs expire with no hint of progress in Albany
ST-PCV Tenants Association Chair Susan Steinberg and other tenants at a vigil on Sunday outside the midtown Manhattan office of Governor Cuomo. (Photo by Anne Greenberg) By Sabina Mollot It wasn’t...
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Tenants blast ‘framework’ deal for rent regulations
Assembly Member Carl Heastie, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (Photo via Governor Andrew Cuomo Flickr) By Sabina Mollot On Tuesday afternoon, the rent regulations, over a...
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After ‘Big Ugly’ tenants focused on 2016 NY elections
Assembly Member Carl Heastie, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (Photo via Governor Cuomo Flickr) By Sabina Mollot Last week’s deal on the rent laws and other major issues,...
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Council calls for stronger rent regs
Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association President Susan Steinberg (at right) waits to give testimony about why rent regulations are needed. (Photo by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria...
View ArticleOpinion: Same fight, different jersey
By Assembly Member Harvey Epstein In the ‘90s, New York’s legislature sold out tenants and tipped the scales in favor of big landlords by passing the Rent Regulation Reform Act. This piece of...
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Cuomo says he’d end vacancy decontrol
Governor Andrew Cuomo By Sabina Mollot Call it the Cynthia Nixon effect. Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has frustrated housing advocates in recent years for not pushing harder for strengthened rent...
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Assembly taking aim at MCIs, IAIs, vacancy de-control
Assembly Member Harvey Epstein during a recent tenant lobbying day in Albany (Photo by Sidney Goldberg) By Sabina Mollot With the rent regulations set to expire on June 15, the New York State Assembly...
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