Sentences with phrase «over rent laws»

While politicians tend to minimize the impact of such donations, tenant advocates and others contend that the money is a prime mover in debates over rent laws and state and city regulations affecting the real estate industry.

Revoking the city's control over rent laws was a strategic political move Rockefeller made to help in his re-election campaign, recalled Michael McKee, associate director of Tenants and Neighbors.

The real estate industry has backed Klein with millions of dollars and the lawmaker has not yet indicated he would vote to return power over rent laws to the city.

Tenant advocates derided him as «Governor Glenwood» in 2015 when he stayed on the sidelines during a legislative tussle over rent laws.

Jessica will fight to give New York City back the power over its rent laws.

At one point Meara was asked if he remembered the 1997 fight over the rent laws.

Several longtime Capitol watchers have suggested that for all his bluster and finger - pointing, it is Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is the biggest problem in the negotiations over the rent laws, which are holding up action on pretty much everything else at the moment, and therefore preventing this seemingly never - ending session from coming to its highly anticipated conclusion.

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It is illegal, but honestly if I was on food stamps and had a choice between not being able to get to my McJob (that barely pays rent) and breaking the law (and going hungry half the month, but keeping a roof over my head) I would break the law, and you would see some guy buying expensive food for himself, while I, the actual recipient, stretch the bag of lentils from last month as far as I can.

While a number of downstate Democrats in the Senate and Assembly and their tenant advocate allies are grumbling over getting the short end of the stick in the rent laws / property tax cap deal, upstaters — and not just Republicans — are generally pleased with the arrangement.

What we're looking at now is an extremely active post-budget session, with everything on the table — from the charter cap and DREAM / EITC to the NYC rent laws and mayoral control over the NYC school system, both of which sunset early in the summer.

«Tonight's vote sends a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Gov. Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate about 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well,» he added.

«With their last minute 421 - a bill, Senate Republicans are bending over backwards to help their developer donors but refusing to lift a finger to strengthen the rent laws and help tenants,» said Delsenia Glover, Campaign Manager of the Alliance for Tenant Power.

I speak from both legislative and executive experience when I say that the law that Governor Cuomo and the Legislature produced this year is the most positive news for rent - regulated tenants in over 35 years.

David Laws quit over the weekend after being embroiled in an expenses scandal involving rent paid to the landlord he was having a homosexual relationship with.

Both Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie preemptively cast blame on Senate Republicans over the weekend for allowing the rent laws to expire.

With many aspects of housing law and policy controlled by the state government, the Rent Guidelines Board is one of the few tools the mayor has to exercise some control over the cost of housing.

In Albany, the annual battle over New York's byzantine rent laws is starting to heat up.

Over the weekend Republicans quietly introduced an extender that would keep rent laws in place until Friday — Republicans want session to end on Friday despite Monday being scheduled as a legislative day.

The state Legislature has sway over key real estate laws affecting Glenwood, including the 421 - a tax abatement program and rent regulation in New York City.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for the first time raised the threat of a high - noon showdown over the state's soon - to - expire rent laws, as he rejected all but the most basic renewal of current tenant protections yesterday.

New York City waits Meanwhile a number of issues important to New York City will be before the Legislature this year - rent laws and mayoral control of schools are each set to expire and while most legislators say they expect to renew both, major battles will be fought over the details of each.

De Blasio's accommodationist streak could also hurt him in upcoming fights over rent - control laws and mayoral control of the public schools, both up for renewal this year.

Though the stalemate over the NYC rent laws has prevented lawmakers from reaching a so called «Big Ugly» deal at the Capitol, plenty of lower - level bills are getting passed — including a measure that would expedite access to medical marijuana for a select group of extremely sick children in New York.

The unfinished business in the Big Ugly underscores the deep dissatisfaction among Assembly Democrats — mainly from New York City — over the agreement reached on extending rent control laws for New York City.

But they did collectively benefit from well over $ 1 million from REBNY during the 2014 elections, which spent big to help the Republicans re-take the majority with an eye toward getting a clean extension — in other words, no pro-tenant changes — of the rent laws this year.

Currently, control over rent regulation lies with the state rather than city — due to the so - called Urstadt law, which was enacted in 1971 and named after then - governor Nelson Rockefeller's housing commissioner Charles Urstadt.

The impending end of an alliance between Senate Republicans and the Independent Democratic Conference also makes it more likely that the Senate will turn blue and support Mayor Bill de Blasio's push to repeal the Urstadt Law, which gives power over rent regulation and co-op conversion to state legislators, Crain's reported.

On the last day of their session, Albany legislators are currently at a stalemate over renewing or strengthening the city's rent laws after they expired at midnight Tuesday.

HRI's founder, Aaron Carr, released a statement Tuesday calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to investigate Kushner's entire New York City building portfolio, which includes well over 1,000 residential units, for possible abuses of the rent laws.

«All over the state, homelessness is going up and Cuomo has been the main impediment to any real movement on the tenants» side to making sure families stay in their homes and making sure the rent laws are as strong as possible.»

Mr Laws quit after it emerged he had claimed over # 40,000 in rent paid to his landlord who, it turned out, was also his boyfriend.

Charter school interests that was to see de Blasio's power over the school system weakened and real estate interests that want to see the status quo maintained in the rent laws spent big money to help the Senate Republicans and Cuomo in this election cycle.

New York City's rent laws, which impact over one million apartments, sunset at midnight.

On Monday, de Blasio called the pending expiration of rent laws a «very troubling moment for over two million New Yorkers» who were wondering «what's going to happen to them» and their families.

It's less clear where Cuomo will stand in the upcoming fight over the city's rent laws, which also must be renewed next year.

This year the decisions of the Rent Guidelines Board will also play out against the backdrop of an even bigger fight in Albany over the renewal of state rent lRent Guidelines Board will also play out against the backdrop of an even bigger fight in Albany over the renewal of state rent lrent laws.

But one of the keys to his potential success is his call to repeal a law that hands state legislature power over rent regulation.

DeFrancisco says in the next few weeks it will become clear whether Skelos can indeed be effective as leader, and the Senate negotiates with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the Assembly over renewal of New York City's rent control laws and a related property tax break for real estate developers,

Councilman Jumaane D. Williams also lashed out at Mr. Cuomo in his praise of the RGB, writing in a statement that the vote sent «a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Governor Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate approximately 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants, but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well.»

My in - laws were renting down there for an extended stay so we knew coming during the long weekend over President's Day would be the perfect much needed warm weather escape.

Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six - burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; the soulless catering factories that helped pay the rent; Hamilton's own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother - in - law, who serves as the link between Hamilton's idyllic past and her own future family - the result of a difficult and prickly marriage that nonetheless yields rich and lasting dividends.

A second action involved rent arrears, conversion of chattels, an action for possession and bankruptcy proceedings involving, on the way, a dispute with Railtrack over a parcel of land and another against the Law Society claiming compensation for the alleged illegality of the solicitors who had represented him.

Property issues and disputes of all types, including: contracts for the acquisition, development and management of land; options and conditional contracts; overage claims; project management and similar contracts; mortgages and other security arrangements, including enforcement disputes; planning and other statutory issues connected with property contracts; leases of all types; landlord and tenant disputes (particularly commercial — including retail, leisure and distribution — and residential); rent reviews; leasehold enfranchisement; rights over land (including easements, covenants and rights of light); trespass and nuisance claims; disputed asset disposals; estate agency; property - related competition law issues; and commons and village greens.

However, you may not need the extra space on a regular basis, and law firms can save thousands of dollars in rent over the lifetime of their lease by eliminating just one meeting room.

Murphy's Law rules real estate, and the only showing requests you'll get will be when it's rented to someone over the weekend.

Moms and dads now having to take on the role of property manager may not be prepared for the risks even seasoned landlords need to manage frequently; tenants that won't pay rent and refuse to vacate, serial trouble tenants that tie up landlords with appeals, complex collection laws that delay enforcement and a Landlords and Tenant Tribunal favouring tenants over rental property owners because the courts perceive landlords as big business owners with deep pockets.»

PS Make sure you know the rental laws in the area, I got burned in one city over because I didn't know there were rent controls in that area.