McKee's Media, Nov. 16. 2018

ALBANY TENANT PROTECTION

Rachel Silberstein: Tenant advocates push for statewide rent protection laws (Albany Times Union)

Ken Lovett: Landlord lobby group RSA blasts affordable housing developers for supporting stronger rent protection laws (Daily News)

Gothamist: Tenants hit the snowy streets for stronger rent laws (PHOTO ESSAY)

Democracy Now: Tenants march through snow for universal rent control

NYCHA 

New York Times: Federal judge rejects deal for NYCHA monitor, suggests HUD take over as receiver

Greg Smith: Federal judge shoots down NYCHA outside monitor, finds deal too vague to trigger actual reform (Daily News)

INWOOD DEVELOPMENT

Patch: Brooklyn developer buys Inwood site for $55 million, plans 272-unit apartment building 

AMAZON DEAL:

New York Times editorial: Cuomo's Amazon deal is a bad bargain for New York
Politico NY: Amazon deal will cost NYC 1,500 units of affordable housing

McKee's Media - Nov. 13, 2018

Zach Williams: Community Service Society offers new online tool showing where different kinds of housing are located throughout NYC (City & State)

Roshan Abraham: New York's rent laws poised for major reforms after Democratic wins in state senate (Curbed NY)

 

Jeff Coltin: Real estate lobby fears the worst as Democrats make stronger rent laws a top priority (City & State)

 

Jillian Jorgensen: NYC elected officials have rent reform & election reform at top of Albany to-do list (Daily News)

 

New York Times: Democrats finally control power in Albany. What will they do with it?

 

Dems win control of NYS Senate!!

The Democrats have won control over NY State's Senate.  That gives Democrats control over the Assembly, the Senate, and the Governor's mansion.  Now it's time to see whether they will enact the bills they have safely endorsed over the years (knowing they wouldn't be passed).  

NYC's rent laws poised for major reform after Democratic wins in state Senate

Curbed NY - Tenants in Janel Towers, a former Mitchell-Lama, are pleased.

New York City elected officials have rent regulations and election reform at top of wish list for new State Senate, NY Daily News

Why rent regulation is fundamentally fair

Ben Dulchin: Rent regulation is fundamentally fair: Don't swallow the line that some tenants lose because others win (Daily News OpEd)

McKee's Media, Oct 23, 2018 excerpted

NYC

Eliza Shapiro: 114,659 NYC public school students are homeless (New York Times)

Daily News editorial: Unfair real property tax system hurts New Yorkers who rent

Jim Brennan: NYC's residents & economy generate increasingly large share of state revenues (Gotham Gazette OpEd) (MUST READING)

New York Times interactive: How a garden for the poor became a playground for the rich

Queens Gazette: Scott Stringer holds Long Island City town hall, calls for new Mitchell-Lama program

WINS Radio: Brooklyn tenants protest poor conditions & harassment (VIDEO)

New York Post: De Blasio opposes City Council bill to give lease renewal protections to small businesses

Samar Khurshid: Gale Brewer forming group to oppose charter commission proposals, including term limits for community board members

RENT REGULATION - NYC AND NATIONALLY

McKee's Media - Sept. 30, 2018

ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES

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Daily News editorial: The road to tenant hell: City needs to enforce laws preventing landlords from using construction to force rent-protected tenants to vacate

New York Times: U.S. housing market slows as rising prices outpace wages

The Intercept: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth introduces bill to build 3.2 million apartments affordable to low & middle-income families & dismantle racist zoning practices

Ken Lovett: Harlem building (Lakeview) on Central Park leaving Mitchell-Lama program; deal for Section 8 subsidy will protect tenants for 40 years (Daily News)

Tenant/Inquilino: Ossining opts into Emergency Tenant Protection Act, first major expansion of rent stabilization in suburbs since 1981

Patch: Stringer admits that a math mistake in report caused inflation of loss of low-rent apartments

Ask Sam: My rent-stabilized building is being sold. How do I protect myself from being pushed out? (Brick Underground)

Tenant/Inquilino: Chinatown tenants return home after seven months

WNYC: De Blasio administration finances DUMBO project that will provide 300 units of supportive housing

Patch: City Council passes Central Harlem Historic District designation

Crain's: De Blasio supports some parts of 25-bill City Council package to fight childhood lead poisoning, landlord group RSA says they are unnecessary

Daily News: Corey Johnson blasts NYCHA, HPD & Health Dept. over childhood lead poisoning failures

NY Times Calls for Stronger Rent Laws and other articles - Sept. 12, 2018

ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO TENANT ADVOCATES:

  

New York Times editorial calls for stronger rent protection laws: Voters should flip state senate to Democratic control, in order to close loopholes in rent regulation system & stop the loss of affordable apartments

Sam Roberts: A history of home rule: why New York City needs Albany's permission to do just about anything (New York Times)

New York Post: Ritchie Torres introduces "property tax transparency" bill

Daily News: Residents decry gentrification of Lower East Side as new Marshalls department store gets ready to open next to Katz's Delicatessen

PRIMARY ELECTION SEPT. 13 - GUIDES

Gotham Gazette: Last-minute guide to tomorrow's primary election

City & State: List of all candidates running in New York State in 2018

Ken Lovett: Roundup of tomorrow's Democratic primary races (Daily News)