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Mayor Bill de Blasio joined Rev. Al Sharpton and a host of other Democratic politicians at a demonstration calling for the State Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign off on a package of proposals to maintain and strengthen the city’s rent laws.
The event, held outside the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building in Harlem and emceed by Assembly Housing Chair Keith Wright, drew a modest crowd of a few dozen people. Mr. de Blasio warned that only days remain before the end of the legislative session—and before New York City’s rent stabilization and rent control laws expire, which could leave roughly one million regulated apartments open to becoming market rate.
“Let’s be clear what’s happening: in the next two weeks in Albany, a decision that will affect well over 2 million New Yorkers who live in over a million apartments. This is the magnitude of what we face,” he said, warning of a potentially dire outcome. “If they do the wrong thing, they will damn thousands and thousands of New Yorkers to be displaced and not have an affordable place to live.”
Mr. de Blasio stressed that he would not be satisfied with a simple extension of the existing regulations, but called for preventing landlords from removing vacant apartments from the rent control program and from increasing the rent 20 percent on stabilized apartments once they become unoccupied. He also demanded new regulations making charges for major capital improvements a temporary, rather than permanent, add-on to a tenant’s rent.
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Upwards of 600,000 New Yorkers are now paying more than 2 weeks income on rent. this is the direct result of the 1997 weakening of Stabilization.
Where one or two might live in a one bedroom apt, there are now three, and still paying half their income to some slug who bought the building with other people's money.
Housing cost is the fundamental reason we are becoming a city of rich vs. poor.
A working person who votes for "business friendly" politicians (republicans) is stabbing himself in the back.
Oh brother. If you think the Democrats care about affordable housing instead of lining some developer's pocket, then you are one dumb voter.
So, how come the headline isn't DeBlasio and Wright.... or DeBlasio and Rangel... or DeBlasio and Kavanaugh... Making it seem like DeBlasio and Sharpton were the co-hosts of the event, when they were just both speaking at it.
It's amazing that Sharpton is still such a public figure.
Go figure!
It would behoove a guy with a 32% approval rating among white voters to stay the hell away from Sharpton.
The'so Der maybe Wilhelm trying to cozy up to a jive hustler like Sharpton to secure the Black vote that mayor De Blah has already lost by lying to them. Hey, what the hell, promise them anything but give them the shaft. Isn't that's what campaign promises are for?
At one time, tenants had a choice of one, two, or three-year leases. Under Mario Cuomo, in 1983, the law was changed to give tenants the choice of only one or two-year leases.
The Blaz must be kidding himself and everyone present at that "rally", what a performance, he's practically a vanilla sasquatch version of Cesar Chavez. Besides, all these people that will be disenfranchised and displaced will be taken care of with all these samaritan villages and hotel cum shelters that are spreading throughout our beloved boro of Queens with the same effect as the pandemic scourge of tumor towers sprouting in the unregulated market rate inflated sections of Brooklyn, LIC, and the billionaire/hipster/rube tourist theme park of Fun City Manhattan.
These are truly the New Bad Days.
What does All Sharpton know that he can get away with tax evasion,slander and arson,remember both his office buildings cought fire and burned all his tax records,luckily no firefighters died
Sharpton is the black community's All Capone with his own key to the Whitehouse doors
Just because Sharpton is an FBI Rat snitch does not exempt him from prosecution.
Every time I see a picture of these 2 I start humming the song Mr Bojangels.....dance.
DeBlasio: sooooooo unqualified in so many respects to be Mayor of New York City. He can't even make it to his conferences on time. It is truly pathetic that we have to live out the term with him in Office. You know and I know and he has to know that after this stint his political career probably is over.
Hard to believe this dept. which wad known as Rent control back in the late 50s is still around. At that tie it was under the state. I worked for them 56-60 straight out of h.s. Then they were located at 89-09 Sutphin Blvd.
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/5/from_occupying_banks_to_city_hall
I suggest everyone about to lose their homes move to Barcelona, this woman knows who the culprits are. If Mayor Big Slow had the balls, make that the ovaries of this woman, he wouldn't be talking shit about the lack of affordable apts. and then eating the shit of developers and the lobbyists of REBNY.
Faith in our elected officials is pretty scarce, as well it should be.
Oh, were there any sign holding zones out of sight of Billy's dead eyes at the town hall meet?
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/5/from_occupying_banks_to_city_hal
Here is a mayor who gets it. This woman knows who the culprits are and is calling them out as sociopaths displacing people from their homes with the same sneaky tactics employed by the scumbags running buildings and the predators robbing the city of its properties. If our Mayor had even the ovaries of this woman, maybe he wouldn't be talking shit about the desperate need for housing for the way more than 20% of people who need decent apts. but eating the shit of the developers and the lobbyists of REBNY.
Oh, and where there any sign holders penned 100 feet away from our Mayor's dead eyes at this dog and pony show?
Where does this line of thinking come from? We want the government to tell private property owners what they can charge to rent their private property to other private individuals, so that people who cannot afford to live in the most expensive place in the country will still be able to stay here on someone else's dime. If we think it's a good idea to control rent then why not also control food prices and gasoline prices and clothing prices and dental care prices and cable prices and new auto prices and on and on and on. All of the people who want rent control would never agree to allow some political hack to control the prices of their product or service or salary. Open your eyes folks this is socialistic madness and it will become our undoing as a successful society. I do not own any rental property but I know this is madness.
A working person who votes for "business friendly" politicians (republicans) is stabbing himself in the back.
Yeah! Because 48 out of 51 members of the City Council belong to the party that favors the "working person" - the Democrats!
So, obviously, the solution is to vote out those 2 Republicans in Staten Island and that one Republican in Queens.
Once we have 51 Democrats on the NY City Council, the trains will all run on time, no one will go hungry, every kid in public schools will be above average and take AP Physics and AP Calculus classes, crime will be eliminated in poor neighborhoods, and we'll have a cure for cancer!
Whatever happened to "separation of Church and State?" Sharpton has no business being there..... Alf
Reverund Al looks like a starving Ethiopian refugee
A "mayor who get's it?" WTF are you talking about? Since when should government get into the real estate business. If the city wants to provide "affordable housing," let the city build it. Private property owners should be restricted from raising their unit's rent when a rent controlled unit is vacated by the tenant. The private property owner should be able to charge whatever the market will bear. When did this city become so socialist? -Alf
when a state government building in Little Rock, Arkansas was torched in the late 1980's , all of the bill/Hillary Clinton financial records were burnt , except for the file that was found on the hallway table in the Clinton white house, in the 1990's.
was a Mossad mole recording the White House phone conversations between W.J.C. and Monica in the 1990's ? read Gideon's Spies.
Uh, Gramps is at it again.
"A "mayor who get's it?" WTF are you talking about?"
Sorry for the double posts, Wifi problems. I thought I lost one of them.
I was referring to the mayor in Barcelona on the link I pasted, it was not meant as praise for Mayor Big Slow aka The Blahz. And the only socialism he seems to support is welfare for tumor tower developers, property pimps and predatory investors.
Sure it's socialism and there should be concern, but our precious capitalist system has collapsed in part of immoral sociopaths elected to office, an unregulated housing market, and the tolerated criminality of bankers taking advantage of laws written by their lobbyists and the hopes and dreams of working people wanting to own a place to live.
Spain sounds nice right now. Especially now killings are up here.
Dumb and Dumber. Your choice as to which is which!
Some good interracial political 69ing is always fun to watch.
A pair of Black and White hustlers, supreme. What a soap opera.
Black&White cookies very good
Black&white politicians very bad
do you think that Sharpton and Wilhelm will have a villa ,with Joanne Chesimard SHAKUR( B.L.A. cop killer 1970, and Willie Morales ,FALN bomb maker ,Fraunces Tavern murders )in Gitmo ,Cuba soon ????
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