McKee's Media, 5/20/2019

Sophia Kasakove: The Tenants’ Rights Movement Is Expanding Beyond Big Cities (The New Republic)

Tim Williams: Podcast: Michael McKee of Tenants PAC weighed in on what he hopes to see in a final compromise Capitol Pressroom)

Lizeth Beltran: Landlords rally ahead of first rent-regulation hearing (Crain's New York Business)

Diego Mendoza-Moyers: Nearly half of all New York renters burdened by housing cost (Times Union)

Emma Whitford: Fed-Up Tenants Demand Significant Rent Reforms from Albany (Gothamist)

James Brown: With “rent burdens” on the rise, advocates urge changes to state laws (WXXI News)

Georgia Kromrei and Kathryn Brenzel: Landlord Featured in REBNY Campaign Deregulated Units (The Real Deal) 

Eddie Smalls: Targeting Loophole of Super Tall Developers (The Real Deal) 

Jay Martin: Opinion: Tightening Rent Regs Won’t Ease the Housing Crisis, But These Steps Would (City Limits)

Kathryn Brenzel: Senate Housing Committee Chair Talks Rent Regulation Reform (The Real Deal)

If you have not yet signed the petition for Universal Rent Control, please do so now. And forward to your friends & neighbors to ask them to sign. Click here.

 

Georgia Kromrei: Controversial Landlord ramps up in Hudson Valley (The Real Deal)

Karen Dewitt: Advocates urge extending rent rules to upstate New York (NCPR)

State of Politics: Assembly Hearing Considers Upstate Rent Control Expansion

Lincoln Anderson: How much can tenants win in expanding tenant protections? (The Villager)

Kathryn Brenzel: City Council approves package of tenant protection bills (The Real Deal)

Cameron Orr: Tenants give 30-day notice to landlord-tied lawmakers in Albany (People’s World)

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Protest landlords who abuse housing court - Wed., May 8 at noon

The Right to Counsel Coalition has organized a rally to protest Stellar Management as one of the "worst evictors" :  taking hundreds of tenants to court in the zip codes that have Right to Counsel for low-income tenants.  This includes our zip code: 10025.  

Because tenants were generally represented, the majority were not evicted.  Bringing hundreds of cases that Stellar could only win if tenants were NOT represented suggests an abuse of the Housing Court system. 

THE RALLY IS 

THIS WEDNESDAY,  MAY 8, 2019 

at NOON 

in front of Stellar's main office at 156 William Street 

in lower Manhattan.

Take any train downtown to the Fulton Street station in Manhattan. 

William Street is one of the exits from the station. 

Tell Albany: End MCIs and Protect ALL Tenants

MAY 14, 2019 - Take a free bus trip to Albany to let them know:  we need 

• an end to inflated apartment improvement and "major capital improvement" building increases and 
• protection for all tenants, not just those lucky enough to be rent stabilized. 

Make your voice heard!  The rent laws expire on June 15th, and Governor Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Heastie, and Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins need to hear from each of us.  (Click here for a draft letter.)