Costs Threaten New York City Mayor’s Rent Plan

Regulators Approve Small Increases for N.Y. Rent-Regulated Tenants By JOSH BARBANEL The city Rent Guidelines Board narrowly approved small rent increases for rent-regulated apartments Monday night despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s urging earlier in the …MORE Hosted by Australia for the first time, the tournament will run from 9 to 31 JanuaryThe airport looks good,…

New York 10/01/2014 by Linda Perry Barr (WBAI) “Albany, Give rent regulations back to NYC.” That’s the message from Elected Officials and Tenant Advocates at an affordable housing rally at City Hall on Tuesday. They want the 1971 Urstadt Law, which gave control of the City’s rent regulations to Albany, repealed and control returned to…

July 28, 2014 Rents have become increasingly unaffordable in New York City. NYC has been in a housing crisis for decades. A housing crisis, defined as under 5 percent vacancy rate, in NYC triggers an elaborate system of rent regulation. Rent regulation is not a subsidy program, but a system in which rents are regulated…

Deadline looms for Urban American and City Investment Fund to recapitalize or break up package March 05, 2014 04:58PM By Adam Pincus An affiliate of the property giant Brookfield Properties is the leading bidder to buy a large stake as part of a refinancing of a $1 billion apartment portfolio in Upper Manhattan and Roosevelt…

Agency Rent-Regulation System Is More Tenant Friendly, Many Say By JOSH BARBANEL The state agency that oversees New York’s rent-regulation system in New York has changed the game, by making the rules more friendly to tenants, both landlords and tenant leaders say. Katie Goldstein, director of organizing for New York State Tenants & Neighbors …MORE…