Dec. 3, 2019 - Tenants PAC celebration

Dance The Night Away to the music of The Love Handles. Join Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Corey Johnson to celebrate the great tenant victory in Albany earlier this year, and to wish Michael McKee a happy 80th birthday. Tickets start at $80, more if you can afford it. Click on the button below to buy a ticket, or to make a contribution if you cannot attend. All proceeds will be used to support pro-tenant candidates in next year's crucial elections, and to fight for even stronger rent laws in Albany. Tuesday, December 3 6:30 - 9:00 pm The Cutting Room 44 East 32nd Street (between Madison & Park Avenues)

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McKee's Media - Nov. 29, 2019

LANDLORDS UPSET AT NEW HOUSING LAW
John Leland: Real Estate thought it was invincible in New York. It wasn't. How the industry plans to rebound after a tough year (New York Times)
Josh Barbanel: NYC evictions are plunging under new rent control law (Wall Street Journal)
Georgia Kromrei: National landlord groups fund RSA/CHIP lawsuit against New York State rent law (The Real Deal)
Kathryn Brenzel: REBNY's new president James Whelan promises more aggressive effort to fight tenant protections (The Real Deal)
Middletown Times Herald-Record: New Windsor manufactured homes tenants protest upcoming rent hike
Elizabeth Kim: Met with unrelenting tenant opposition, landlord of Atlantic Plaza Towers backs down on installing facial recognition technology (Gothamist)

NEW RENT LAW:  STATEWIDE AND MOBILE HOME PARKS
Anna Gronewold: City of Albany moves towards opting into state rent control law (Politico NY)
Jeremy Moule: Rochester takes first step toward rent stabilization as mayor agrees to conduct vacancy survey (Rochester City Newspaper)


CITY DOESN'T COLLECT LANDLORD FINES / LANDLORDS ASK FOR $$
Gothamist: NYC fines landlords for lead but rarely comes to collect
Kathryn Brenzel: REBNY asks City to help landlords pay for lead abatement (The Real Deal)
NYCHA
Greg Smith: NYCHA monitor being paid $600 per hour (The City)

HOMELESS
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Jehovah's Witnesses DUMBO hotel will become housing for formerly homeless New Yorkers

DISCRIMINATION AND DISPLACEMENT
Newsday: Black homebuyers & renters face discrimination from Long Island real estate brokers 
David Cruz: Special report: The vanishing Bronx homeowner (Norwood News)
New York Times: As Newark rebuilds, could black residents be pushed out?
Michael Kimmelman: Essex Crossing is the anti-Hudson Yards (New York Times)
New York Times: Surging rents, housing shortage leave working-class Californians at risk of displacement  

McKee's Media 11/08/2019

ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES:

MCI RULES RETROACTIVE

Kathryn Brenzel: In a blow to landlords, state housing agency says new MCI rules are retroactive (The Real Deal)

AIRBnB

Luis Ferré-Sadurní: Massive defeat for Airbnb as Jersey City voters overwhelmingly approve stricter regulations on short-term rentals (New York Times)  

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/nyregion/airbnb-jersey-city-election-results.html  

Daily News editorial: NYC needs to crack down on Airbnb for illegal short-term rentals

The Real Deal: Airbnb lost by a landslide in Jersey City. What went wrong?

REBNY unhappy with new rent laws

Commercial Observer: https://commercialobserver.com/2019/11/what-will-rebny-do-after-losing-the-rent-reform-battle/  

Josh Barbanel: Bowing to real estate pressure, state tax officials reverse policy, will allow LLCs to purchase condos without disclosing names of owners (Wall Street Journal)

Georgia Kromrei: Big developers pitched alternate rent plan to Albany before passage of 

June law, might try again for new legislative session (The Real Deal)

American Apartment Owners Assn.: Rising rent control is slowing development & investment

NEW YORK CITY

Samar Khurshid: Re-elected Public Advocate Jumaane Williams will keep pushing de Blasio on housing, policing (Gotham Gazette) 

Patch: Council Member Mark Levine faces ethics probe for failure to report rental income from condo he owns with his wife