Teachout: I’d repeal Urstadt Law, support retail diversity
Zephyr Teachout(Photo courtesy of campaign) By Sabina Mollot Despite allegations that the Cuomo administration compromised the governor’s own corruption watchdog panel and despite the fact that Cuomo’s...
View ArticlePols tell tenants their stories are needed in rent law fight
Over 400 people listen as local state elected officials brief them on the uphill battle over the rent laws coming in June. (Photo by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot On Saturday, over 400 residents of...
View ArticleHundreds head out for tenant rally
Tenants carry signs at a rally for stronger rent laws. (Photos by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot On Thursday night, hundreds of tenants and housing activists and numerous politicians gathered to rally...
View ArticleRent regs expire with no hint of progress in Albany
ST-PCV Tenants Association Chair Susan Steinberg and other tenants at a vigil on Sunday outside the midtown Manhattan office of Governor Cuomo. (Photo by Anne Greenberg) By Sabina Mollot It wasn’t...
View ArticleAssembly taking aim at MCIs, IAIs, vacancy de-control
Assembly Member Harvey Epstein during a recent tenant lobbying day in Albany (Photo by Sidney Goldberg) By Sabina Mollot With the rent regulations set to expire on June 15, the New York State Assembly...
View ArticleIAIs were inflated at hundreds of NY apts. suit says
Attorney General Letitia James By Sabina Mollot A property manager is being accused of lying about the costs of hundreds of apartment renovations in order to have the rents reach the threshold where...
View ArticleEditorial: Landlords scared and should be
The fact that the power has shifted drastically in Albany has been missed by no one, in particular landlords, who for many years could rely on the Republican-controlled State Senate to kill any bill...
View ArticleAlbany passes strongest rent regulations ever
Tenants in Albany on Friday (Photos courtesy of Housing Justice for All) By Sabina Mollot On Friday, the governor signed the most tenant-friendly package of rent regulations the state has ever seen,...
View ArticleCould a lawsuit really undo the rent regs?
Blaine Schwadel By Sabina Mollot Ever since the new rent regulations — all 74 pages of them — were signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday, real estate attorneys have been scrambling to...
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