Sentences with phrase «removing vacant apartments»

Mr. de Blasio stressed that he would not be satisfied with a simple extension of the existing regulations, but called for preventing landlords from removing vacant apartments from the rent control program and from increasing the rent 20 percent on stabilized apartments once they become unoccupied.

Mr. Rangel spoke to the Observer shortly after addressing a rally for more tenant - friendly rent stabilization — including the elimination of preferential rents, preventing landlords from removing vacant apartments from the rent control program and making charges for major capital improvements temporary rather than a permanent — in his native Harlem.

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The expected legislation includes A02005, which would would undo the law that allowed landlords to remove rent regulation on vacant apartments on which the rent had reached $ 2,000 a month rent.

It also would slightly increase the rent threshold at which apartments that become vacant can be removed from rent regulation, a process known as vacancy decontrol.