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Friday, January 31, 2020

McKee's Media - Jan. 31, 2020


STATE TENANT PROTECTION LAWS
The Real Deal: Rent overcharge cases pile up as new rent law increased potential liabilities for landlords
Georgia Kromrei: Support grows in state legislature for bill to bar no-fault evictions; majority of Democrats in both houses sign on as sponsors (The Real Deal) 
Georgia Kromrei: Landlords deal with the rent law aftershocks (The Real Deal) 
The Jersey Journal: City Council in Jersey City proposes to strengthen rent control law 
Denis Slattery: New poll finds most New Yorkers support taxing the rich (Daily News)
Qns.com: Carl Heastie appoints Mitchell-Lama housing working group
Matthew Haag: Facades on 1,400 NYC buildings are dangerous to pedestrians, as landlords flout law, ignore enforcement & $31 million in fines (New York TImes)

HOUSING SHORTAGE
Daily News editorial: The only way to address the housing shortage in NYC is to build more market-rate housing
New York Post editorial: New rent law is harming New York City's housing stock
Historic.ly: Debunking Traditional Economics Arguments Against Rent Control
Michael Kimmelman: Everything you think you know about housing is probably wrong; "density" a misunderstood concept (New York Times) (MUST READ)

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Thought-Provoking Articles


The Geography of Rent Regulation and Legislative Districts by Tom Waters, Community Service Society of New York, October 2014

Reinventing the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program Tom Waters and Victor Bach, Community Service Society of New York, April 2015

Debating Privatization: Southbridge Tower Votes, by Chris Chawaldo, the Architectural League’s Urban Omnibus, The Culture of City Making, Sept. 17, 2014

Let’s Slam the Door on 80/20 Neighborhoods by Moses Gates, Association of Neighborhood & Housing Development

The Case for a Rent Rollback by Kenny Schaeffer, Met Council on Housing

The RGB and Small Landlords by Tom Waters of the Community Service Society

How NYC Can Solve Its Affordable Housing Crisis by Steve Wishnia, the Gothamist.

What New Yorkers Want from the New Mayor: An Affordable Place to Live by Thomas J. Waters, Victor Bach, published by the Community Service Society.

Strengthening New York City's Public Housing: Directions for Change by Victor Bach, Thomas J. Waters, published by the Community Service Society.

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