Sentences with phrase «for vacancy decontrol»

On another issue that's atop the legislative agenda, the Post's Fred Dicker reports that there is a deal afoot to pass rent reform, with the minimum rent for vacancy decontrol likely to be hiked up to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000.

Capital NY's Laura Nahmias reported earlier this afternoon that some Assembly Democrats are pushing for changes to the rent agreement, including an increase in the threshold for vacancy decontrol, though the governor's office denied that was the case.

According to the sources, the Assembly is trying to increase the amount of the threshold for vacancy decontrol to $ 3,000 a month, though a spokesman for Cuomo denied that was the case.

McKee noted that Dilan voted for vacancy decontrol in the City Council in 1994, despite promising his constituents (on at least two occasions when McKee was present) that he would not do so.

Not exact matches

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.

The City will work with the state as rent regulation comes up for renewal in 2015 to prevent abuses of the vacancy and luxury decontrol provisions and capital improvement rules.

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.

The activists have called for changes to rent regulations to stop or slow the process of vacancy decontrol, under which landlords can remove apartments from regulation when rents cross a certain threshold.

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.

Vacancy decontrol is not done away with but the guidelines for it have increased.

They have criticized the measure, which would up the vacancy decontrol threshold for when apartments re enter the open market by just $ 200, to a rate of $ 2700 a month.

Golden has at times insisted that the problem of vacancy decontrol — where landlords claim to make repairs to vacant apartments to price them out of rent control — is not a real problem in his district but instead a worry for Manhattan legislators.

So Krueger and other senators pushed for repeal of a law, known as vacancy decontrol, that removed limits on rent hikes for apartments where tenants moved out and the rent exceeded $ 2,000 a month (now $ 2,700).

Democratic leaders did allow two bills to reach the floor for votes that year: a Krueger measure to stop landlords from collecting rent increases retroactively, and a bill by Manhattan Senator Daniel Squadron requiring owners to document rent increases used to justify vacancy decontrol.

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.

Juan Gonzalez singles out Bronx State Senators Pedro Espada and Jeff Klein for indicating that they won't support the millionaire's tax or to increase the threshold vacancy decontrol rent from $ 2,000 to $ 5,000.

A group of City Council members, led by Christine Quinn, announced the introduction of legislation yesterday to make the state legislature repeal vacancy decontrol, and kill the law allowing Albany to set rent regulations for the city.

«If we're gonna fight for New Yorkers they we're gonna need to strengthen the rent laws and that means the repeal of vacancy decontrol and the repeal of a lot of the loop holes that have allowed land lords to increase the rent at a rapid rate to get it up to the 25 - hundred dollar threshold where they can deregulate it.»

Quinn blamed her City Council predecessors for authorizing vacancy decontrol in 1993, a move she said that drove 300,000 affordable apartments out of rent - stabilization protection.

Tenant advocates have long been calling for stronger protections, especially regarding vacancy decontrol and the vacancy bonus, since they believe those factors create strong incentives for landlords to pressure tenants to leave so they can get higher rents.

Among those alleged «loopholes» are vacancy decontrol — which lets landlords to remove a unit from the rent stabilization program if the tenant dies or relocates — major capital improvement rules, which allows for permanent rent increases to pay for renovations and the preferential rent system, which permits landlords to charge a tenant less than the legally regulated rate for an apartment.

Despite the qualifier, it represented a change of position for Espada who, in a September session with reporters in his office, said he didn't support repealing the vacancy decontrol and instead wants to focus on creating more incentives for developers to construct affordable housing.

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.

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.»

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, who has said he will fight for rent reform when a number of laws sunset in Albany this year, also stated his opposition to vacancy decontrol during his remarks.

«We've already lost 300,000 apartments to vacancy decontrol and if this continues there will be no rent regulated apartments in 15 years and New York will be for the rich and very rich,» Glover added.

The state's expiring rent regulations could get the same treatment — though the new Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, says he's going to make a stand for tenant - friendly changes like the repeal of «vacancy decontrol,» which allows landlords to charge market - rate rents after an apartment's price rises above $ 2,500 per month.

Tenant activists and Democrats — including Governor Andrew Cuomo — questioned the bill because it requires income verification for tenants of rent - regulated apartments and makes no change in vacancy decontrol, the process by which apartments become deregulated when their monthly rent tops $ 2,500.

Sources said three - way talks were tipping closer to the Senate's plan for rent regulations — which would renew them for eight years but keep in place provisions of vacancy decontrol, a scourge of tenant advocates that takes apartments out of the program when their monthly rent rises above $ 2,500.

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.

Republicans passed a bill extending rent regulations for eight years, but leaving intact the process of vacancy decontrol, where apartments fall out of regulation when their monthly rent tops $ 2,500.

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.

While the bill will be sent to the Republican - led state senate for consideration, Heastie hailed the legislation as combating «ever - increasing rents» through measures that include the repeal of vacancy decontrol and limiting rent increases associated with building or apartment improvements.

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.