Sentences with phrase «eliminating vacancy decontrol»

This might come as bad news for housing advocates who were hoping Democratic control of the senate would push forward new housing legislation, including eliminating vacancy decontrol for rent - stabilized units.

But the governor has not yet committed to a specific proposal or eliminating vacancy decontrol, which allows landlords to move apartments from regulation once rents reach $ 2,000.

The bill, which Wright sponsored, would tweak current laws and extend them until June, 2019, and would eliminate vacancy decontrol, which allows landlords to raise rents when an apartment is vacated or when the monthly charge reaches $ 2,500.

«We must eliminate vacancy decontrol or at the very least significantly raise vacancy decontrol thresholds,» he wrote in an opinion piece in the Daily News.

De Blasio wanted to eliminate vacancy decontrol where an apartment can be removed from regulation once it reaches $ 2,500 per month.

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De Blasio, who had previous been somewhat vague about he wanted changed, told state lawmakers in Albany on Wednesday that vacancy decontrol should be eliminated.