Save Affordable Housing: 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

PROSECUTION OF TENANT ADVOCATES

Georgia Kromrei: Criminal trial of Rochester organizer Ryan Acuff puts tenants' rights to organize at risk (The Real Deal) - Charges now dismissed

Christine Chung: Sanitation Dept. targets Ridgewood Tenants Union for flyering last winter against Amazon, RTU fights back (The City)

NYCHA

Nolan Hicks: Plan to spend $450 million in state aid to replace faulty boilers & elevators in NYCHA buildings moves forward -- at long last (New York Post)

Michael Gartland: Cuomo will release $450 million to NYCHA, finally (Daily News)

Joe Anuta: Long-sought labor concessions backfire at NYCHA complexes (Politico NY)

LONG ISLAND SENATORS ???

Zack Fink: Progressives target Long Island Six, branding these Democratic state senators "the new IDC" (New York 1 News) (VIDEO)

Nick Reisman: State senate Democrats defend their Long Island colleagues (NY State of Politics)

Yancey Roy: Andrea Stewart-Cousins & Liz Krueger defend Long Island Six, saying that unlike the IDC they support Democratic control (Newsday)

LOCAL ELECTIONS AND EFFECTS

Newsday editorial: A.G. Tish James sides with Albany politicians on salary bump & restrictions on outside income

Nick Reisman: Four takeaways from Tuesday's election (NY State of Politics)

Politics Brief: NYC is getting ranked-choice voting. Here's what this means.

The City: Amazon slayer Mike Gianaris gets primary challenge from ex-Republican who criticized him for pushing stronger rent protections

New York Times editorial: Don't let party hacks hijack election reform; public financing commission is poised to squander a chance at needed reforms

Georgia Kromrei: Tenant activist Phara Souffrant challenges Assembly incumbent Walter Mosley in 2020 primary (The Real Deal)

Sally Goldenberg: Diaz family divide in the spotlight as father & son both seek higher office (Politico NY)

Nick Reisman: State senator Bob Antonucci ahead in Supreme Court Judge race; if he wins it creates a vacancy in Syracuse-area seat (NY State of Politics)

Nick Reisman: Cuomo says he would consider calling special election if Antonacci senate seat becomes vacant (NY State of Politics)

Jimmy Vielkind: State writes down value of upstate economic developments by $1.2 billion, including Tesla solar panel factory, centerpiece of Cuomo's "Buffalo Billions" project

The Real Deal: With change of primary residence, Trump could use Florida real estate law to protect himself from creditors

ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT

Eddie Small: Some builders upset at NYC voter-approved change in ULURP process, giving community boards & boro presidents more time to review projects (The Real Deal)

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Sunset Park leaders demand City Hall meeting as deadline for CB7 vote on Industry City approaches

Globe St: "Chocolate Factory" lofts in north Brooklyn converted to market-rate housing upon expiration of J-51 subsidy

Eddie Small: Some builders upset at NYC voter-approved change in ULURP process, giving community boards & boro presidents more time to review projects (The Real Deal)

Conor Dougherty: Why $4.5 billion from Big Tech won't end California's housing crisis (New York Times)

Mike McKee

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