McKee's Media - 12/20/2019

ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES

HEAT SENSORS TEST

Shant Shahrigian: HPD will install heat sensors in the 50 residences with the most heat & hot water violations, under new City Council bill (Daily News)

WAREHOUSING VACANT STABILIZED APARTMENTS / TENANT ACTION
Josh Barbanel: NYC landlords slow-walk apartment upgrades, blame new rent law (Wall Street Journal)

Sabina Mollot: More tenants asserting rent overcharge claims as landlords delay filing non-payment cases in NYC Housing Court (Real Estate Weekly)

REZONING

Elizabeth Kim: In huge defeat for de Blasio, judge knocks down Inwood rezoning (Gothamist)

Daniel Geiger: Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer rejects plan to rezone Lenox Terrace apartment complex (Crain's)

MCIs
Georgia Kromrei: Tenants call for moratorium on MCI rent increases until DHCR issues new regulations to implement 2019 reforms (The Real Deal)

McKee's Media - 12/10/2019

ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES: ZONING / DISPLACEMENT Shelterforce: Blame zoning, not transportation,  for displacement Caroline Spivack: 7 unfinished NYC infrastructure  projects poised to change the city in the 2020s  (Curbed NY) NEW STATE CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR  HARASSING LANDLORDS Georgia Kromrei: Cuomo signs bill to increase  criminal penalties for landlords who harass  tenants (The Real Deal) DEM. CANDIDATES' HOUSING POLICY Shelterforce: Comparing housing platforms  by Democratic candidates for president TAX BREAKS FOR BIG DEVELOPERS Neil Demause: New School study uncovers  another $1 billion in subsidies to Hudson Yards (Gothamist) WHO'S GOT THE POWER IN ALBANY? Albany Times Union: Landlords form new advocacy  group to lobby for watering down historic 2019 rent law Albany Business Review: Landlords, business groups  banding together to push back on new state rent law Joe Mahoney: More bad news for state senate  Republicans (Lockport Union-Sun & Journal) Nick Reisman: Power flows to tenants group  (NY State of Politics) Zach Williams: A list of the GOP state senators  who are not running for re-election (City & State) TAX THE RICH IN ORDER TO. . . . Michael Gartland: Affordable housing advocates call  on Albany to end  tax breaks for luxury developers &  redirect money to fix public housing (Daily News)