McKee's Media - Sept. 30, 2018

ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES

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Daily News editorial: The road to tenant hell: City needs to enforce laws preventing landlords from using construction to force rent-protected tenants to vacate

New York Times: U.S. housing market slows as rising prices outpace wages

The Intercept: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth introduces bill to build 3.2 million apartments affordable to low & middle-income families & dismantle racist zoning practices

Ken Lovett: Harlem building (Lakeview) on Central Park leaving Mitchell-Lama program; deal for Section 8 subsidy will protect tenants for 40 years (Daily News)

Tenant/Inquilino: Ossining opts into Emergency Tenant Protection Act, first major expansion of rent stabilization in suburbs since 1981

Patch: Stringer admits that a math mistake in report caused inflation of loss of low-rent apartments

Ask Sam: My rent-stabilized building is being sold. How do I protect myself from being pushed out? (Brick Underground)

Tenant/Inquilino: Chinatown tenants return home after seven months

WNYC: De Blasio administration finances DUMBO project that will provide 300 units of supportive housing

Patch: City Council passes Central Harlem Historic District designation

Crain's: De Blasio supports some parts of 25-bill City Council package to fight childhood lead poisoning, landlord group RSA says they are unnecessary

Daily News: Corey Johnson blasts NYCHA, HPD & Health Dept. over childhood lead poisoning failures

Tenant/Inquilino: IDC wiped out! Six of eight turncoat state senate Democrats go down in Sept. 13 primary 

Nick Reisman: David Valesky drops bid for re-election to state senate (NY State of Politics)

Daily News: Make the Road/CPD staffer Ana Maria Archila takes center stage in elevator showdown with U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (VIDEO)

 

Ask Sam: My rent-stabilized building is being sold. How do I protect myself from being pushed out? (Brick Underground)

Nick Reisman: Labor unions back Democratic candidates for state senate (NY State of Politics)

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2018/09/labor-plans-targeted-state-senate-push-for-democrats/

 

Jeff Coltin: Interview with Zellnor Myrie, new state senator-to-be from central Brooklyn (City & State)

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/personality/interviews-profiles/zellnor-myrie-interview.html

 

New York Post: John Sampson back in court facing additional charges; asks judge to release him from jail so his family can drive him to next hearing

https://nypost.com/2018/09/27/john-sampson-asks-to-ride-with-family-to-next-court-appearance/

 

 

Ryan Whalen: Buffalo political macher Steve Pigeon pleads guilty to bribery (NY State of Politics) NOTE: Pigeon masterminded the 2009 state senate "coup" when Pedro Espada & Hiram Monserrate formed an alliance with the GOP to give them a temporary majority

Bill Mahoney: Steve Pigeon's guilty plea follows years of investigations (Politico NY)

Ken Lovett on Cuomo pal Steve Pigeon's guilty plea (Daily News

Bob McCarthy: For Steven Pigeon, a lonely plea caps decades of political ambition (Buffalo News) (The most complete report on this matter)

  

ProPublica: How well are your elections run? (National turnout 2016 by county)

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