Sentences with phrase «ending vacancy decontrol»

An increase in the rent threshold at which apartments become market - rate, indexed to rise each year, is a step forward, but it only slows the bleeding — and is well short of de Blasio's target, ending vacancy decontrol completely.

Cuomo in an op / ed over the weekend backed ending vacancy decontrol or at the very least modifying it.

If elected Mr. van Bramer wants to focus his energy on cost of living and affordability issues, including ending vacancy decontrol and expanding rent stabilization.

Heastie was talking about ending vacancy decontrol, which began in 1993 and was greatly expanded in 1997.

No,» he said, though he alluded hopefully to Mr. Cuomo's call yesterday to end vacancy decontrol.

«We need the laws strengthened, we need to end vacancy decontrol, step up enforcement so that landlords can just stop registering and say they spent the money and raise the rent so the apartment is no longer on the rolls,» McKee said.

The Democratic - led Assembly in May backed legislation that would end vacancy decontrol, a plank Senate Republicans are unlikely to support.

When asked whether he'd work to end vacancy decontrol (for apartments that rent for $ 2,000 or more), State Senator Pedro Espada said yes but he added that vacancy decontrol «will affect very few units in our district.»

On rent regulation, de Blasio wants to end vacancy decontrol, which allows apartments to leave regulation once monthly rent reaches $ 2,500.

Folks can get involved in future efforts to end vacancy decontrol by visiting the Housing Here and Now website or their blog.

Last month the Democratic - led Assembly passed legislation that would, among other things, end vacancy decontrol, which allows landlords to raise rent by an unlimited amount when the monthly charge reaches $ 2,500.

Not exact matches

The Assembly approved his legislative rent control package last month that includes ending the practice of vacancy decontrol.

Cuomo has said it is unlikely vacancy decontrol will end, but he is open to modifying it as well as raising the ceiling in the regulations to $ 2,700 a month.

There, the governor appeared to endorse the Assembly's proposals for rent regulation, calling for an end to vacancy decontrol, ending permanent charges for major capital improvements and raising the price at which an apartment is able to leave rent stabilization from the current threshold of $ 2,500.

He'd also like to see an end to vacancy decontrol and a revamp of the 421 - a program that takes the neighborhood Area Median Income into consideration, as opposed to the current system that includes New York City and the wealthier areas of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland Counties.

Both fall short of what Mr. Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and tenant leaders called for: an end to vacancy decontrol, whereby a property owner may remove an apartment from the rent control program if it becomes unoccupied.

Mr. de Blasio specifically called for the end of vacancy decontrol, a law that allows property owners to take apartments off the rent - regulated list when they go vacant.

He'll announce at a press conference today that he made the decision based on assurances from Dem leadership that key bills he supports, including drug and alcohol testing for police officers who shoot civilians, and ending vacancy rent decontrol will make it to the floor.

Democrats were seeking an all - out end to vacancy decontrol this year, but Heastie says the Republican - led Senate wouldn't budge on their position.

Last week, the Democratic - led Assembly approved their own version of a rent control regulation extension, which also included an end to the practice of vacancy decontrol, a proposal that's unlikely to find support among Senate Republicans.

Assembly Democrats this afternoon approved their own preferred version of a rent control extension which strengthens the regulations and ends the practice of vacancy decontrol.

The letter demands an end to something known as vacancy decontrol, under which landlords can take empty apartments out of the system when the next tenant would pay more than $ 2,500 in rent.

The industry reps, however, refused to discuss ending «vacancy decontrol,» a process despised by Silver that allows landlords to deregulate certain apartments once they go vacant.

Because of this, de Blasio has called not only for an extension of the laws but a strengthening to end things such as vacancy decontrol, which allows landlords to deregulate a vacant apartment when the rent reaches $ 2,500 per month.

Ms. James, a Brooklyn Democrat, laid out an aggressive agenda to curtail the powers of landlords, including an end to vacancy decontrol for units in the rent control system, a ban on property owners from increasing rents on vacant units, and a repeal of the Urstadt Law that puts the city's rent laws in the hands of the State Legislature.

De Blasio has proposed changes including ending «vacancy decontrol,» which allows an apartment to become market - rate after the rent passes $ 2,500, and making rent increases from renovation costs temporary instead of permanent.

More than 500 NYC residents gathered together on Tuesday, December 9th at the New York Society for Ethical Culture to demand an end to vacancy decontrol, a practice by which landlords can take a vacant apartment out of rent regulation when the rent reaches $ 2,000.

The mayor wanted an end to vacancy decontrol as part of an overhaul of rent regulations; the legislature will merely bump up the rent at which a landlord can remove an apartment from regulation.

Both fall short of what Mr. Cuomo, Mr. de Blasio and tenant leaders called for: an end to vacancy decontrol, whereby a property owner may remove an apartment from the rent control program if it becomes unoccupied.