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) Bernadette Hogan: Speaker Heastie says state  should raise taxes to close $6 billion budget gap  (New York Post) Tom Precious: Albany talks of taxing the rich to close  $6 billion budget gap (Buffalo News) Nick Reisman: Andrea Stewart-Cousins says "first  fallback" to close deficit won't be raising taxes (NY  State of Politics) Denis Slattery: Protestors crash Cuomo's birthday  bash, demand that he make billionaires pay fair taxes  (Daily News) Jimmy Vielkind: Cuomo praises campaign finance  reforms, then holds $25,000 fundraiser (Wall Street  Journal) Gotham Gazette: State senate looks ahead to  complicated task of property tax reform CAMPAIGN FINANCE "REFORM" Gothamist: Big donors need not worry about the  new Albany campaign finance "reforms" Daily News OpEd: Six state legislators reject  campaign finance commission recommendations,  propose legislative fix Jeff Coltin: The Year of Tish: Attorney General  Letitia James made a name for herself going after T rump. But is she "Cuomo's A.G."? (City & State) HOMELESS  Michael Gartland: Operators of homeless hotels double dip, get direct subsidies from city + tax breaks (Daily News) New York Times: Hundreds sleep in Times Square to call attention to the problem of homelessness NYCHA New York Post: De Blasio's lead czar at NYCHA had toxic record at HPD, failed to force private landlords to inspect their apartments  AIRBnB Malibu Times: Malibu proposes Santa Monica style restrictions on Airbnb Jeffery Mays: WFP, DSA move to strengthen alliance (New York Times) Copyright © 2019 TenantsPAC, All rights reserved.