McKee's Media - March 31, 2021

 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES The Real Deal: CDC extends national eviction moratorium through June  (Because NYS has its own moratorium, the CDC moratorium will apply to us only after our moratorium ends on May 1, 2021.) Don McIntosh: Interview with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democratic Left/Portside)  ALBANY AND THE BUDGET Milton Perez: A message for Andrea Stewart-Cousins & Carl Heastie: Stand up to Andrew Cuomo & finally house homeless New Yorkers like me (Gotham Gazette OpEd) Jimmy Vielkind: Democratic lawmakers & advocates push higher taxes on affluent as budget deadline looms (Wall Street Journal) Adolfo Abreu & Samelys Lopez: Best way to defend the Bronx? Start with taxing the super-rich (Riverdale Press OpEd) Denis Slattery: Cuomo's campaign gets $568K from billionaires while opposing wealth tax (Daily News) Public Accountability Initiative: Number of NYS millionaires grew rapidly after 2009 millionaires tax increase Tom Precious: State budget will be late (Buffalo News)

New York Post: Jumaane Williams, activists rip Andrew Cuomo for harming Black communities Amy Goodman: Evanston, Illinois to pay reparations to Black families harmed by decades of racist housing policies (Democracy Now!) (VIDEO) Nolan Hicks: NYS suspends housing inspector after he mails racist slur to Vietnamese tenant (New York Post)  NYC MAYORAL ELECTION New York Times: Five takeaways from NYC mayoral race Natalie Wallington: NYC mayoral candidates lay out proposals for direct cash assistance to low-income residents (City & State) Samar Khurshid: How much trouble is Scott Stringer's mayoral campaign in? (Gotham Gazette) Allison Smith: Democratic mayoral candidates outline plans for NYC waterfront & waterways (Gotham Gazette) Grace Getman: Democratic mayoral candidates discuss future of transportation in NYC (Gotham Gazette) The City: How to tell if big money Super PACs are spending dark money to influence an election Emily Myers: How to find an inexpensive apartment in NYC (Brick Underground) Amy Plitt: Real estate sales & rentals surge in Manhattan (The Real Deal) Copyright © 2021 TenantsPAC, All rights reserved.