McKee's Media April 30, 2018

TENANT BLACKLISTINGPaula Franzese: Tenant blacklisting & the denial of opportunity (Fordham Law Journal) NYCHASamar Khurshid: Impact on city budget of Cuomo's executive  order to impose external monitor on NYCHA is unclear (Gotham Gazette) Erin Durkin: NYCHA retaliates against tenants who  complain about conditions (Daily News) ALTMAN CASE GOES FOR LANDLORDS RENT GUIDELINES BOARD NY 1 News: City rent board adopts   preliminary rent adjustments, ignoring  tenant calls for a rent freeze (VIDEO) Erin Durkin on RGB preliminary vote (Daily News) Tenant/Inquilino: RGB study shows landlords'  Net Operating Incomes have increased to  42 cents on the dollar, belying their cries of  poverty Commercial Observer on RGB preliminary vote Bedford + Bowery on RGB preliminary vote (BRIEF VIDEOS) Curbed on RGB preliminary vote (BRIEF VIDEO) TRUMP PROPOSES RAISING HUD TENANT RENTS NYTimes: Trump proposes to raise rents for poor tenants who receive  rental assistance Erin Durkin: Cuomo rips Trump's plan to increase public   housing rents (Daily News) CITY COUNCIL Tenant/Inquilino: City Council Speaker Corey Johnson  will help tenants apply pressure to Albany for stronger  rent protections Tenant/Inquilino: Three important pro-tenant bills are  stuck in Republican-controlled state senate ALBANY AND ETHICS Lisa Foderaro: Democratic blue wave did not materialize  in areas of state that are heavily Republican (NY Times) Lisa Foderaro on GOP state senators who are retiring (NY Times) Tom Precious: Prosecutors seek to introduce developers'  huge campaign contributions to Andrew Cuomo as evidence  in upcoming Buffalo Billions corruption trial (Buffalo News) NY Times: Shelly Silver faces retrial on corruption charges  beginning Monday Times Herald-Record: Assembly votes again to close  LLC loophole, authorize early voting Ken Lovett: State senate Republicans cave in fight with  Comptroller DiNapoli over improper lulu payments to vice  chairs of committees (Daily News) REZONINGPatch: Borough President Gale Brewer opposes de Blasio's  Inwood rezoning plan Abigail Savitch-Lew: Jumaane Williams & East Flatbush  residents call for contextual rezoning (City Limits) New York Post: House flipping by speculators is destroying NYC neighborhoods HOMELESSNESS New York Post: De Blasio claims $386 million will be last increase to homeless budget Ask Sam: Our landlord wants to switch our heat to  a more expensive system. Can we get a rent reduction?  (Brick Underground) Mike McKee http://www.tenantspac.org/ Copyright © 2018 TenantsPAC, All rights reserved.