Articles of Interest to Tenant Advocates - 2/4/2018

TENANT ACTION

The Nation: All over the U.S., tenants organize

 for rent & eviction protections; real estate lobby 

is worried

Brooklyn Eagle: Williamsburg tenants demand 

city help them return to their lofts after 3-year l

ockout

HOMELESSNESS

Albany Times Union: With 90,000 people in shelters 

statewide, advocates say Cuomo is not doing 

enough to help homeless, demand he support 

rent supplement legislation

CUOMO

Real Estate Weekly: Landlord Farkas brought 

Andrew Cuomo into negotiations with West 

VIllage Houses tenants to persuade them not t

o sue to stop 2006 conversion to coop; 

non-purchasing tenant now facing eviction, 

demolition of historic complex is threatened

Tenant/Inquilino: What will it take to force Andrew

 Cuomo to strengthen rent protections?

FEW AFFORDABLE VACANCIES

amNY: 2017 citywide net vacancy rate was 3.63 

percent, per Census Bureau; Speaker Corey 

Johnson will renew city rent laws, & will demand 

Albany close loopholes

Crain's: Comptroller Stringer says City is still 

sitting on vacant lots that could be used for 

housing construction

NYCHA

Michael Gartland: City Council members want 

Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen to testify about NYCHA 

failures (New York Post)

New York Times: Legal Aid Society threatens to 

sue NYCHA unless it refunds $15 million to 

tenants who have been without heat

Daily News: Health Dept. to study impact of 

NYCHA lead paint failures

New York Post: Public housing tenants protest 

outside de Blasio's State of the City speech

Patch: Trump's budget would slash funding for 

NYCHA

AIR BnB
Jonathan Westin: Airbnb profits from removing 

units from rental housing stock, fuels gentrification 

(Crain's Op Ed)

ALBANY

Tenant/Inquilino: The case against Jeff Klein & 

the IDC

Kendra Allenby: How the IDC keeps your rent 

high (Tenant/Inquilino) (CARTOON)

  

WNYC: Reclaim New York, funded by the same 

right wingers who helped elect Trump, seeks to 

upend local New York governments

Mike McKee

http://www.tenantspac.org/