Sentences with phrase «against rent control»

In the end, the strongest argument against rent control is that there are better ways to protect vulnerable renters.

Not exact matches

But with an economy still struggling to recover, rent control laws due to expire in New York City and a tax cap wanted by a large portion of the public, Senate Democrats may be trying to swim against the tide on the issue.

While some tenant advocates have been critical of the final rent control agreement, the criminal complaint against Silver mentions a document prepared by real estate interests that says Cuomo was more favorable to stronger rent laws than the speaker.

The charges against Skelos allege that the senator asked the developer to steer money to his son in exchange for his support on issues like rent control.

This is the type of stupidity that led to the democrats voting against the rent - control extension bill last spring.

He'll now have an even larger say on issues like extending rent regulations and mayoral control of public schools, things that he hinted will be balanced against some eternal suburban concerns.

He also put forward a bold manifesto for change, including stringent rent controls to protect the poor against money - grubbing landlords and called for an industrial strategy which would embrace the public ownership of the railways and the Royal Mail.

@ Joe Roberts I sympathise with some of the concerns (though, they are not from the right of the Conservative leadership seeing as I remember Rob Marchant backing rent controls on LabourList), and I would warn against Atul Hatwal pretending that the party is in a very bad state when in fact we are doing quite well, but having an alternative does not mean lurching to the left which is what you are seeming to suggest.

If we give her another for years she will fight against the landlords and and save rent control.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

Last month the New York Times reported Rangel currently leased four rent control apartments in the Harlem area, including one that was used for a campaign office - against regulations stipulating rent - control apartments must be used for primary residences.

«It is these investors who are up against rising interest rates and now rent controls that create some vulnerabilities for the market,» said Hildebrand.

While it was intended to protect tenants against large rent increases, once introduced, it had the well - observed effect of drying up the stock of rental housing over time, as investment funds that would have been used to build new apartment buildings went into other projects that produced financial returns that were not similarly controlled.

City officials in Los Angeles say they are filing criminal charges against landlords who are evicting tenants from rent - controlled units in order to list the units on Airbnb or similar sites to make a quick profit.

There is a big political out lash against landlords trying to force tenants out of rent controlled housing.

Rent control failed to pass in Orange County due to heavy lobbying by apartment owners who duped the public into voting against their best interests.

Wedged into a rent - controlled two - bedroom apartment near San Francisco's famed Haight - Ashbury neighborhood and already overrun by their son's toys, Kari Droller and her husband weighed having a second child against the skyrocketing costs of a larger home nearby.

Tenants in rent - controlled buildings have strong protections against eviction to ensure landlords can't kick them out to charge higher market rents.

Owners in neighboring areas, who would otherwise tend to side with those in the jurisdiction considering rent control, due to the similar threat posed against them, can be bribed away because the reduction of housing supply «next door» increases their demand and raises their rents.