McKee's Media, Oct 23, 2018 excerpted

NYC

Eliza Shapiro: 114,659 NYC public school students are homeless (New York Times)

Daily News editorial: Unfair real property tax system hurts New Yorkers who rent

Jim Brennan: NYC's residents & economy generate increasingly large share of state revenues (Gotham Gazette OpEd) (MUST READING)

New York Times interactive: How a garden for the poor became a playground for the rich

Queens Gazette: Scott Stringer holds Long Island City town hall, calls for new Mitchell-Lama program

WINS Radio: Brooklyn tenants protest poor conditions & harassment (VIDEO)

New York Post: De Blasio opposes City Council bill to give lease renewal protections to small businesses

Samar Khurshid: Gale Brewer forming group to oppose charter commission proposals, including term limits for community board members

RENT REGULATION - NYC AND NATIONALLY

New York Times: Why rent control is a lightning rod: does it ease or compound shortage of affordable housing?

Naomi Jagoda: Affordable housing will become big issue in 2020 presidential campaign (The Hill)

Henry Grabar: Rent control is back, & economists reconsider their opposition (Slate)

New York Times: California tenants take rent control to the ballot box

Portside: California NAACP leader opposes rent control measure while receiving $800K in real estate money 

NYCHA

Greg Smith: NYCHA consistently violated Open Meetings Law by holding secret votes to spend $27 million on outside law firms (Daily News)

Sally Goldenberg: Ex-NYCHA chief Shola Olatoye gets job at national real estate firm (Politico NY)

 

ALBANY ELECTIONS

Journal News: Andrew Cuomo's campaign coffers are stuffed with donations from conpanies with business before the state, exploiting LLC loophole

Gothamist: State senate campaign of Queens GOP candidate Vickie Paladino courts Proud Boys & neo-Nazis

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