Has your Assembly Member co-sponsored the bill to repeal vacancy decontrol and re-regulate market apartments?

Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal's bill , 1865A, to repeal vacancy deregulation would 

• end landlords' incentive to oust rent regulated tenants and
• re-regulate many market rate in many buildings     

if it passes.

Section 6 of the bill says that an apartment that has been taken out of rent stabilization or rent control because the rent was too high, will be re-regulated - as long as the rent never reached $5,000. Once back in regulation, the new base rent will be either what the tenant was paying on December 31, 2014, or - if the apartment was vacant, what the last rent was just before that date. 

If your Assembly Member hasn't signed on as a sponsor, ask him or her to sign on!  Those MISSING from the sponsorship list are listed at the bottom of this email.

AND ask your neighbors to sign a petition (take the one here and adapt it for your building or group!) and bring  them to your Assembly and Senate members and then send the petitions to Governor Cuomo.  

From Michael McKee, mmckee@tenantspac.org

ASSEMBLY MEMBERS WHO SHOULD BE SPONSORS OF A1865-A:

Brooklyn

Peter Abbate                         49 AD

Charles Barron                      60 AD

Erik Dilan                               54 AD

Dov Hikind                             48 AD

Roxanne Persaud                 59 AD

Latrice Walker                       55 AD

Helene Weinstein                  41 AD

Bronx

Carmen Arroyo                      84 AD

Michael Blake                        79 AD

Marcos Crespo                     85 AD

Mark Gjonaj                           80 AD

Queens

Jeffrion Aubry                        35 AD

Edward Braunstein               26 AD

Barbara Clark                        33 AD

Michael DenDekker              34 AD

Philip Goldfeder                    23 AD

Andrew Hevesi                      28 AD

Ron Kim                                 40 AD

Michael Miller                        38 AD

Francisco Moya                    39 AD

Catherine Nolan                    37 AD

Nily Rozic                               25 AD

Michael Simanowitz              27 AD

Aravella Simotas                   36 AD

Manhattan

Guillermo Linares                  72 AD

Daniel O’Donnell                   69 AD

Dan Quart                              73 AD

Robert Rodriguez                  68 AD

Rebecca Seawright              76 AD

Staten Island

Michael Cusick                      63 AD

Matthew Titone                      61 AD

Nassau County

Todd Kaminsky                     20 AD

Michaelle Solages                22 AD

Westchester County

David Buchwald                    93 AD

Steven Otis                            91 AD

Amy Paulin                             88 AD

All these Assembly members represent districts that include rent-regulated apartments. If you have influence with any of the legislators on this list, please ask that they add their names to the bill as co-prime sponsors. The more Assembly members who sponsor the bill, the more we can look to the Assembly leadership to make stronger rent protections a priority between now and June 15.

NOTE: Carl Heastie (83 AD, Bronx) was a sponsor of this bill earlier in the legislative session, but after he was elected Speaker he took his name off all bills including this one, in order not to influence his members. Speaker Heastie has stated that winning stronger rent protection laws is one of his major priorities for the end of session.

Please let me know of any results of your efforts to recruit additional sponsors. For some of these legislators, it is simply a matter of calling this bill to their attention and asking them to become sponsors.

Michael McKee

Treasurer

Tenants Political Action Committee