City Council proposing 18 bills to crack down on landlords

NY TIMES: 18 Bills with One Goal: Cracking Down on Predatory Landlords

By Grace Ashford and Kim Barker

Nov. 28, 2018

EXCERPT:

The City Council speaker is introducing a raft of bills on Wednesday aimed at stopping landlords from harassing rent-regulated tenants to force them out of their apartments.

The speaker, Corey Johnson, said the package of 18 bills is intended to close loopholes and address abusive practices identified in The New York Times’s recent series, “Unsheltered,” which showed how some large landlords exploit New York’s fragmented regulatory system to push apartments out of regulation.

3 OpEds: We need stronger rent protection, and here's how to win them

Judi Kende, Jolie Milstein, Judith Goldiner: Developers & tenant advocates demand three rent reforms: End Vacancy Decontrol, restore preferential rent protections, & curb vacancy & capital improvement rent hikes (Daily News Op-Ed)

  

Pete Harrison: What the New York fight for universal rent control can learn from Prop 10's defeat in California (Shelterforce)

  

Michael McKee: It is time for real rent-regulation reform across New York State (City Limits OpEd)

What NY can learn from California's Prop 10 defeat

What the Fight for Universal Rent Control in New York Can Learn from Prop 10’s Defeat in California - Shelterforce

By PETE HARRISON, November 24, 2018

McKee's Media, Nov. 23, 2018

NYCHA LEAD PAINT

New York Times: Kids poisoned because NYCHA's response to Dept. of Health lead inspections was to challenge the reports, not correct the condition

Daily News: De Blasio claims he was unaware that NYCHA had challenged DOH lead paint inspection results, which The News exposed in 2015

NYCHA CONTROL

New York Post: City to place 62,000 public housing apartments under private management

Sally Goldenberg: De Blasio plans to expand private development on NYCHA land (Politico NY)

Greg Smith: De Blasio opposes federal receivership for NYCHA (Daily News)

Sarah Jones: Under a different president, federal receivership for NYC public housing might make sense, but not with Trump & Ben Carson (New York Magazine)

Daily News: NYCHA tenants on LES without heat or hot water since last week's snowstorm

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-nycha-heat-20181120-story.html

 

ALBANY

Carl Campanile: Cuomo says he will sign bill to repeal Vacancy Decontrol, but one of his lieutenants talks about raising threshold (New York Post)

Vivian Wang: New York Democrats vowed to get big money out of elections. Will they deliver now that they are in control of state government? (New York Times)

Casey Seiler: Last days for the LLC loophole? (Albany Times Union OpEd)

AMAZON DEAL

David Goodman: Instead of victory lap, Cuomo & de Blasio reel from backlash over Amazon deal (New York Times)

Jarrett Murphy: The scam at the heart of New York's Amazon deal (The Nation) (MUST READING)

Rex Smith: Amazon deal another example of government using tax subsidies to take care of the political donor class (Albany Times Union OpEd)

Dana Rubenstein: Ocasio-Cortez takes on the Amazon deal (Politico NY)

Carl Campanile: State legislature might have leverage to throw a wrench into Amazon deal (New York Post)

Daily Mail: Two Amazon execs snapped up LIC condos days before Amazon announcement sent real estate prices soaring

Daily News: State senator Jose Peralta dies suddenly at age 47

Shelterforce: The two vacancy crises in American cities

 

Shelterforce: A community-centered perspective on displacement

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McKee's Media, Nov. 16. 2018

ALBANY TENANT PROTECTION

Rachel Silberstein: Tenant advocates push for statewide rent protection laws (Albany Times Union)

Ken Lovett: Landlord lobby group RSA blasts affordable housing developers for supporting stronger rent protection laws (Daily News)

Gothamist: Tenants hit the snowy streets for stronger rent laws (PHOTO ESSAY)

Democracy Now: Tenants march through snow for universal rent control

NYCHA 

New York Times: Federal judge rejects deal for NYCHA monitor, suggests HUD take over as receiver

Greg Smith: Federal judge shoots down NYCHA outside monitor, finds deal too vague to trigger actual reform (Daily News)

INWOOD DEVELOPMENT

Patch: Brooklyn developer buys Inwood site for $55 million, plans 272-unit apartment building 

AMAZON DEAL:

New York Times editorial: Cuomo's Amazon deal is a bad bargain for New York
Politico NY: Amazon deal will cost NYC 1,500 units of affordable housing

McKee's Media - Nov. 13, 2018

Zach Williams: Community Service Society offers new online tool showing where different kinds of housing are located throughout NYC (City & State)

Roshan Abraham: New York's rent laws poised for major reforms after Democratic wins in state senate (Curbed NY)

 

Jeff Coltin: Real estate lobby fears the worst as Democrats make stronger rent laws a top priority (City & State)

 

Jillian Jorgensen: NYC elected officials have rent reform & election reform at top of Albany to-do list (Daily News)

 

New York Times: Democrats finally control power in Albany. What will they do with it?

 

Dems win control of NYS Senate!!

The Democrats have won control over NY State's Senate.  That gives Democrats control over the Assembly, the Senate, and the Governor's mansion.  Now it's time to see whether they will enact the bills they have safely endorsed over the years (knowing they wouldn't be passed).  

NYC's rent laws poised for major reform after Democratic wins in state Senate

Curbed NY - Tenants in Janel Towers, a former Mitchell-Lama, are pleased.

New York City elected officials have rent regulations and election reform at top of wish list for new State Senate, NY Daily News

Why rent regulation is fundamentally fair

Ben Dulchin: Rent regulation is fundamentally fair: Don't swallow the line that some tenants lose because others win (Daily News OpEd)