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.
A bid in the state legislature to raise the age for criminal responsibility in New York State may be coupled with a plan to build more prisons.
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.
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.
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.
Advocates disputed media reports that efforts to reform 421-a and repeal vacancy decontrol—two priorities of Mayor de Blasio—were dead, as a report found a huge loss of affordable apartments from 2002 to 2014.
The tax break now at the center of negotiations in Albany over essential city housing policies is really rather complicated. Here are the basics.
For months tenant advocates have waited and wondered what Gov. Cuomo’s position on rent regulations would be. Now they’ve gone from wondering where the governor stands to fretting about whether he can deliver.
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 Cuomo and legislative leaders start tinkering.
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.
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