Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill Monday that extends the city's rent stabilization laws for another three years.
The mayor implored Albany to also follow the city's suit as the Urstadt Law of 1971 comes up for renewal this June. The city extension will only stick if the state renews the law.
The city's 2014 Housing Survey found that the rental vacancy rate is 3.45%, indicating a housing emergency.
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Who the Hell do you think you are just because you saved the money to buy a multiple dwelling and expect me a loser who can't even afford to live to charge me Market Rent you capitalistic Swine.
If you want rent protection move into a Project, Blame yourself if you missed the boat because you were too busy getting stoned and laid protesting Vietnam or occupy wall st and raising 3 kids with no Daddys,why does every loser think society Owes Them Cuba has free rent so why not Move the fvck out already. I was born in a basement in the Bronx and fought to get out of the poverty I was born into. The only thing losers take pride in is what they can Steel from a working man.
When the rent reaches legally a certain rate, whether occupied or not, it can be decontrolled. In this way, hundred of thousands of apartments have been decontrolled in the past few years, and eventually, they will all be.
Note that when a new renter signs a lease where the landlord has illegally decontrolled it, the renter has only four years to appeal before losing the right to do so.
He' already cut his throat with his ultra liberal commie positions . He would cut his own nuts off if he bucked keeping rent controls. I guess he is learning to count the votes he might lose.
What does his "First Lady" think? LOL! Maybe sonny boy Dante can run his re-election campaign.
The fact of the matter is that the middle class is shrinking as we are expected to compete with people who are willing to do the same work for less money. Competition for rental space is increasing as you let everyone in.
The other point is that wealthy people are subsidized by taxes policies and tax breaks.
Don't force the little guy against the wall. At some point they will push back. And there is a hell of a lot of little guys out there - and their ranks are growing each year.
I am grateful for the extension of the rent stabilization regulations. I am employed by this fine City and it's the only way I can afford to live here, even if only in an "outer borough." I am old enough to remember when all 5 boroughs comprised 1 amazing City. I am sad that I feel forced to leave to retire comfortably.
Cuomo and the other thieves in Albany just passed a budget bill to cut sales tax on luxury yachts and private planes,so who do you think they are looking out for. Rent regulations for owner occupied 2 or 3 family houses seems unjust but for large apartment buildings, why not? Should big money be the only ones who catch a break?
"Competition for rental space is increasing..."
Last evening I was walking south on Bell Blvd. in Bayside and counted eight empty stores between the 7-11 and VIPizza.
The landlords are forcing out all the old neighborhood businesses and renting to trendy food joints that cater to the invading hipsters.
Fifteen dollar burgers??? No Thanks.
"Trendy" restaurants maybe , but certainly not for hipsters, who wouldn't be caught dead in Bayside. You get the hard-drinking, raucous Queens crowd there .
Take a walk on Bedford or Driggs Ave. in the north side on a Friday or Saturday night during the warm months and you'll see hipsters drinking hard and being raucous.
Do it in Astoria and Bushwick and you'll see the same.
Hipsters are still youngsters who drink hard and party hard no matter the 'hood.
It's the 72 year old housing emergency.
Does it make sense to anyone that how much you pay in rent depends on how you are related by blood, marriage, partnership, etc. to someone living in an apartment in Manhattan on March 1, 1943 when "temporary" rent controls were deemed necessary?
It's an emergency that will never end.
Who is that real estate industry shill who is anti rent control? Your disguise is thin, last poster.
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