ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES
Affordable housing development
Jason Cohen: Developer plans to build new supportive housing in the West Bronx, + upgrade Mitchell-Lama developments & keep them affordable (Bronx Times)
Caroline Spivack: Budget cuts threaten de Blasio's affordable housing legacy (Curbed NY)
Caroline Spivack: Budget cuts threaten de Blasio's affordable housing legacy (Curbed NY)
Landlords can't go after personal finances of small business owners
Shant Shahrigian: New York City Council moves to extend law barring landlords from going after business owners' personal funds if they cannot make rent (Daily News)
Homeless in Hotels - NIMBYism (Mayor has since paused moving them out of the Lucerne)
Nikita Stewart: Caving to NIMBY protesters, de Blasio announces he will move homeless men from Upper West Side hotel back to shelters (New York Times)
Shant Shahrigian: Elected officials, UWS residents slam de Blasio over plan to move homeless men out of Lucerne Hotel (Daily News)
Janaki Chadha: De Blasio reaps public scorn, internal dissent over his caving in to NIMBY protesters (Politico NY)
Daily News: Homeless musical chairs: De Blasio boots disabled from midtown hotel to make way for men being moved from Upper West Side hotel
Janaki Chadha: Legal Aid Society to sue de Blasio over moving residents with disabilities out of midtown hotel (Politico NY)
Daily News editorial: By caving in to NIMBY protesters on Upper West Side, de Blasio makes a bad situation worse
Rent Drop in NYC (not in poor neighborhoods)
Robert Frank: Manhattan rental market plunges, leaving 15,000 empty apartments in August (CNBC)
Rachel Holliday Smith: What rent drop? Unlike Manhattan, listed prices on vacant apartments aren't budging in low income neighborhoods where COVID-19 hit hardest (The City)
Oshrat Carmiel: Manhattan rental supply soars, creating problems for landlords to find new tenants (Bloomberg News) (VIDEO)
Erin Hudson: Manhattan rental vacancy rate hits the 5 percent mark (The Real Deal)
Emily Davenport: Some NYC neighborhoods saw purchase price drops in August (amny)
Georgia Kromrei: Market-rate rental payments nationwide down to lowest rate since start of pandemic (The Real Deal)
Taxing the rich:Nikita Stewart: Caving to NIMBY protesters, de Blasio announces he will move homeless men from Upper West Side hotel back to shelters (New York Times)
Shant Shahrigian: Elected officials, UWS residents slam de Blasio over plan to move homeless men out of Lucerne Hotel (Daily News)
Janaki Chadha: De Blasio reaps public scorn, internal dissent over his caving in to NIMBY protesters (Politico NY)
Daily News: Homeless musical chairs: De Blasio boots disabled from midtown hotel to make way for men being moved from Upper West Side hotel
Janaki Chadha: Legal Aid Society to sue de Blasio over moving residents with disabilities out of midtown hotel (Politico NY)
Daily News editorial: By caving in to NIMBY protesters on Upper West Side, de Blasio makes a bad situation worse
Rent Drop in NYC (not in poor neighborhoods)
Robert Frank: Manhattan rental market plunges, leaving 15,000 empty apartments in August (CNBC)
Rachel Holliday Smith: What rent drop? Unlike Manhattan, listed prices on vacant apartments aren't budging in low income neighborhoods where COVID-19 hit hardest (The City)
Oshrat Carmiel: Manhattan rental supply soars, creating problems for landlords to find new tenants (Bloomberg News) (VIDEO)
Erin Hudson: Manhattan rental vacancy rate hits the 5 percent mark (The Real Deal)
Emily Davenport: Some NYC neighborhoods saw purchase price drops in August (amny)
Georgia Kromrei: Market-rate rental payments nationwide down to lowest rate since start of pandemic (The Real Deal)
Zack Fink: Cuomo opens door to raising taxes on the rich if Washington doesn't deliver aid (New York 1 News) (VIDEO)
Petra Kelly-Voicu: Economists urge Cuomo to impose billionaire tax (Kings County Politics)
New York 1 News: Economist Jared Bernstein explains to Errol Louis why increasing taxes on the rich is a necessary partial solution to NYS budget crisis (VIDEO)
Ross Barkan: Mike Bloomberg raised taxes to avoid NYC economic collapse. Andrew Cuomo still won't do it. We will be in trouble if he doesn't (Political Currents)
Amanda Fries: Jessica Ramos, Carmen De La Rosa push bill to tax the rich to finance an "excluded workers" fund (Albany Times Union)
Rachel Silberstein: Capital District Assembly Members call for wealth tax to fund public schools (Albany Times Union)
Cynthia Nixon: In 2 phone calls, I just learned who counts in NY. NY Times
Mihir Zaveri: Is taxing the rich the answer to NYS budget deficit? (New York Times OpEd)
Petra Kelly-Voicu: Economists urge Cuomo to impose billionaire tax (Kings County Politics)
New York 1 News: Economist Jared Bernstein explains to Errol Louis why increasing taxes on the rich is a necessary partial solution to NYS budget crisis (VIDEO)
Ross Barkan: Mike Bloomberg raised taxes to avoid NYC economic collapse. Andrew Cuomo still won't do it. We will be in trouble if he doesn't (Political Currents)
Amanda Fries: Jessica Ramos, Carmen De La Rosa push bill to tax the rich to finance an "excluded workers" fund (Albany Times Union)
Rachel Silberstein: Capital District Assembly Members call for wealth tax to fund public schools (Albany Times Union)
Cynthia Nixon: In 2 phone calls, I just learned who counts in NY. NY Times
Mihir Zaveri: Is taxing the rich the answer to NYS budget deficit? (New York Times OpEd)
Georgia Kromrei: NYC real estate industry donors back Biden over Trump; some contribute to both (The Real Deal)
Relief Funds
US News & World Report: Vermont House votes to provide stimulus checks to excluded workers
Amanda Fries: A month after deadline for applying for rent relief funds, state housing agency remains mum on whether any money has been distributed (Albany Times Union)
Emilie Munson: NYS will start paying new $300 per week unemployment benefit next week (Albany Times Union)
Josefa Velasquez: Immigrant residents in Corona lean on relief organizations -- and each other (The City)
Amanda Fries: A month after deadline for applying for rent relief funds, state housing agency remains mum on whether any money has been distributed (Albany Times Union)
Emilie Munson: NYS will start paying new $300 per week unemployment benefit next week (Albany Times Union)
Josefa Velasquez: Immigrant residents in Corona lean on relief organizations -- and each other (The City)
VOTING ON NOV. 3
Carl Campanile: New York voters will be able to deliver absentee ballots to drop-off boxes (New York Post)
Jon Campbell: Thousands of voters who applied for absentee ballots prior to August 20 claiming "temporary illness" due to COVID will have to reapply (Journal News) (VIDEO)
Michael Gormley: 221,000 New Yorkers file online applications for absentee ballots -- in one week (Newsday)
Carl Campanile: Cuomo urged to release $50 million to prevent COVID-19 election chaos (New York Post)
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Jon Campbell: Thousands of voters who applied for absentee ballots prior to August 20 claiming "temporary illness" due to COVID will have to reapply (Journal News) (VIDEO)
Michael Gormley: 221,000 New Yorkers file online applications for absentee ballots -- in one week (Newsday)
Carl Campanile: Cuomo urged to release $50 million to prevent COVID-19 election chaos (New York Post)
Candidates for NYC races
WPIX-TV: NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer formally enters 2021 mayoral race (VIDEO)
Ross Barkan: Is Scott Stringer the mayor progressives want? (Political Currents)
New York Post: NYC Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia blasts de Blasio in resignation letter, eyes run for mayor in 2021
Gloria Pazmino: Tiffany Caban launches run for New York City Council seat in NW Queens (New York 1 News)
Erin Durkin: Teamsters Union endorses Diana Florence for Manhattan District Attorney (Politico NY)
Gus Saltonstall: Assembly Member Carmen De La Rosa announces run for Upper Manhattan City Council seat (Patch)
Ross Barkan: Is Scott Stringer the mayor progressives want? (Political Currents)
New York Post: NYC Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia blasts de Blasio in resignation letter, eyes run for mayor in 2021
Gloria Pazmino: Tiffany Caban launches run for New York City Council seat in NW Queens (New York 1 News)
Erin Durkin: Teamsters Union endorses Diana Florence for Manhattan District Attorney (Politico NY)
Gus Saltonstall: Assembly Member Carmen De La Rosa announces run for Upper Manhattan City Council seat (Patch)
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