Sentences with phrase «over rent stabilization»

Also linked to the debate over rent stabilization is a real estate tax break that saved New York City developers more than $ 1 billion last year.

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Blair Horner, the director of NYPIRG, said the volume of donations was so high last year because Mr. Cuomo was facing reelection, as well as an expected battle over the expiration of rent stabilization and the 421a tax abatement this year.

• The rent is too damn high: ProPublica reports on how landlords take advantage of a loophole to undermine rent stabilization for over 260,000 New York City families.

He has publicly championed tenants» rights, rent stabilization and affordable housing over the years, but has also earned a reputation among real estate executives as a pragmatist in a sea of reflexively pro-tenant Assembly members.

Rent Stabilization Board staff say the cost of maintaining regulated buildings is up 5.7 percent over the last year, Capital New York reported.

And until recently, the RSA was locked in a three - year legal battle with the Homes and Community Renewal agency over nearly a dozen state rent - stabilization amendments passed in 2014 on Governor Andrew Cuomo's watch.

The report comes just one week before the current «emergency» rent regulations hit their June 15 expiration date and threaten decades - old price controls for over 1 million city apartments under the rent - stabilization program.

All over the city it has become increasingly difficult to find affordable places to live, and when you do find a place, you find out that your apartment has illegally been removed from rent stabilization.

And merely rolling over the existing rules, a de Blasio aide says, would be «disastrous,» because about 8,000 affordable apartments are lost each year when their rents rise above the stabilization threshold.

Even to tenants who never knew his name and could never afford to live in one of his buildings, Mr. Litwin was an unseen power: a voice in the Rent Stabilization Association, the landlord organization that battles tenant groups annually over rent increases, set by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, that may legally be charged in hundreds of thousands of rent - stabilized apartments in the cRent Stabilization Association, the landlord organization that battles tenant groups annually over rent increases, set by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, that may legally be charged in hundreds of thousands of rent - stabilized apartments in the crent increases, set by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, that may legally be charged in hundreds of thousands of rent - stabilized apartments in the cRent Guidelines Board, that may legally be charged in hundreds of thousands of rent - stabilized apartments in the crent - stabilized apartments in the city.