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(Photo by the Flatbush Tenant Coalition / Facebook)For the second consecutive year, the Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to approve a rent freeze on one-year leases for over one million tenants in rent stabilized housing. The news was bittersweet for local tenants rights advocates, who were fighting for more
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(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Do you have a rent-stabilized lease? Are you concerned about a rent increase? Testimony from the public is now being accepted regarding the proposed rent increase guidelines for rent stabilized apartments, lofts, and hotel units with leases renewing between October 1, 2016 and September 3,
rent regulation
Photo by Clare [/back-by-popular-demand-rainbows/]For the first time in New York City’s history, the Rent Guidelines Board [http://www.nycrgb.org/html/guidelines/guidelines2015.html] voted Monday night to green-light a rent freeze for the city’s approximate two million residents living in rent-stabilized homes, eliciting cheers of approval
Census
via Community Service Society [http://www.cssny.org/news/entry/as-albany-debates-rent-regulation-css-analysis-shows-rapidly-rising-rents-i] According to the Community Service Society [http://www.cssny.org/news/entry/as-albany-debates-rent-regulation-css-analysis-shows-rapidly-rising-rents-i] , rents in our neighborhood have gone up 41-52 percent since 2002, when adjusted for inflation. That’s even more than the average of 32 percent for
bensonhurst housing
Image via nyc.gov [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/benefits/tenants-scrie.page] If you’re 62 or older, living in rent-regulated Bensonhurst housing (or housing elsewhere in the five boroughs), and facing rent increases by the year, there’s hope to stop them — and an event this week [http:
employment
In the above video clip, taken from of a segment of Albany news program Capital Tonight, Senator Marty Golden discusses protests; as well as employment, gridlock in Albany, mandate relief, property tax caps, rent control and same-sex marriage. State Senator Marty Golden represents District 22, which includes Bay Ridge, Dyker