Sentences with phrase «rent laws»

The governor, like de Blasio, must balance a push for stronger rent laws with the interests of the powerful real estate industry.

They thought they had made it clear him that he needed to deliver big on rent laws if he wanted their continued support.

In 2011, when the current rent laws were modified and extended, Silver issued a press release framing it as a victory for housing advocates and the public.

Long - standing tenant complaints about fraud are part of the debate over renewing state rent laws.

Behind the scenes, colleagues say, he has fought for tightening rent laws and raising the minimum wage, although in recent years those efforts have been largely in vain.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no end that would not resume rent laws and make them stronger.

Rent laws vary a bit by state, but it sounds like you have a «tenant at will» agreement.

It is a little discouraging looking at how much of his money comes from real estate and how much tenants in New York City need a victory in strengthening rent laws by repealing vacancy deregulations and doing so many other reforms.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted it as «the greatest strengthening of rent laws in decades» when the state Legislature approved a package of bills last year that renewed the city's rent control laws until 2015.

In a statement sent to DNAinfo, Johnson said he would «welcome the opportunity to discuss my record of fighting for tenants and small businesses,» noting that he was the prime sponsor of legislation that extended rent - stabilization laws, fought for the first rent freeze in the city's history and was arrested during a protest for stronger rent laws in Albany.

The timing is crucial, as a number of state rent laws expire next June.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has offered a bill that would extend rent laws until 3 p.m. on Friday.

In past years, deals have been struck where Republicans might give on rent law reform in exchange for Democrats giving on the education tax credit.

Cuomo also signed rent law extensions that protected renters, though advocates say they didn't go nearly far enough (in part because the IDC - Republican coalition controlled the Senate with Cuomo's implicit support).

The State Senate has offered an 8 - year extension of the current rent laws as opposed to letting them expire.

The lawyer, who handled much of Glenwood's political work, said the company hoped to obstruct the passage of campaign finance reform laws, see the controversial 421a tax abatement renewed, obtain a favorable tax cap on revenue from apartment buildings and to prevent Democrats from taking control of the State Senate and giving control of the New York City rent laws from Albany to the City Council — which Mr. Dorego compared to «an atomic bomb.»

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.

Harlem Councilwoman Inez Dickens said a group of City Council members are traveling to Albany on May 24 to push for rent law renewals and strengthening.

And when tenants» - rights activists accused Cuomo of not doing enough to protect them as rent laws came up for renewal in Albany, they met David.

2012 Cuomo took his time in 2012 to relish in his major early victories, which included marriage equality, ethics reform, closing the $ 10 billion deficit, establishing regional economic development councils, renewing rent laws, and eliminating nearly 4,000 prison beds.

We say we need rent laws for the five boroughs, the Assembly has passed it, the governor supports it and the people want it.»

Today, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a statement dismissing the State Senate Majority's proposed eight years extension of the current NYC rent laws.

As previously reported, Cuomo recently announced it would be «a crisis of our state» if the state legislature failed to extend rent laws beyond their June 15 deadline.

His comments echo those of tenant advocates who say they lost their leverage in the battle for stronger rent laws when the measure was not made part of the budget.

Cynthia will work with the state legislature to find solutions and pass new rent laws to protect tenants living in homes that might be smaller than 6 units but are owned by corporate landlords who own a large number of properties.

Then director of The Metropolitan Council on Housing, he needed a way to get regular New Yorkers interested in the backroom dealing that he saw as having continually allowed the real estate industry power to weaken rent laws every time they were up for renewal.

But for real estate moguls, the stakes are simply too great to keep even symbolic distance from the New York politicians who set the rules on everything from rent laws to property taxes.

Gov. Cuomo had never made it clear in the lead - up to the legislative showdown what qualified as tougher rent laws — only that he wanted them.

Meanwhile Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver insists that he is not interested in the Senate Republicans» rent law extender that would last til Friday.

Cuomo has said for months that he wants to strengthen rent laws without telling legislators specifically how he would prefer to see them strengthened.

«They're paying us to plug up the loopholes,» said Edward Josephson, director of litigation and housing at Legal Services NYC, who believes without the state changing rent laws that allow for big hikes on vacant apartments, «the laws will never be respected.»

Many tenant groups want control of New York City's rent laws back in the hands of the mayor and the New York City Council.

The current rent laws also allow landlords to increase rent by 20 percent after tenants leave, resulting in high turnover rates, and allow owners to adjust preferential rent, which is set at lower rate.

«There's no policy reason for state senators from around the state to be passing bad housing laws for New York... It just explains why we're in the situation that we're in with rent law and why they open up their piggy bank to hold on to that majority.»

Tenant advocates and Democratic legislators from the city were confused when the news first hit — the outline of how rent laws would be renewed and amended under the «big ugly» negotiated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, just didn't make sense to them.

Cuomo's anger about the Senate's failure to pass a two day extension for rent laws differs from the press release he issued yesterday in which he said that the sky would not fall if an extension did not pass.

As Glenwood was lobbying Skelos about rent laws, Skelos pressured an executive at the firm, identified by sources as senior vice president Charles Dorego, to arrange a $ 20,000 payment to his son Adam that prosecutors say was disguised as a commission for title work which he did not perform.

But it takes two to tango and it comes as no surprise that the person likely bribing Shelly Silver, whether for tax subsidies for luxury developments or for weaker rent laws for hard - working New Yorkers, was none other than Leonard Litwin.»

Brooklyn City Councilman Jumaane Williams (D - 45th) said if the state assembly and state senate don't deal with the rent regulations in time, then the governor should act decisively to make rent laws tougher.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

«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.

Dorancy also called for strengthening rent laws at the state level, and hiring more inspectors.

«In this economic environment, with the average rent - regulated family earning only $ 38,000 per year, we need better rent laws to protect these families from landlord price - gouging.

A reporter noted that the Assembly has already passed the governor's bill (the fourth time the legalization of same - sex marriage has been approved in the Democrat - dominated house) and any changes would require the house to go back a a fifth time (so would the passage by the Senate of a bill in extraordinary session, if the governor calls one to deal with the ongoing rent laws logjam)

Heastie in particular was put in a tough place, pushing for more tenant - friendly rent laws in the face of what one of his Democratic colleagues, Charles Barron, said was «the Republican Senate, the Republican governor» watching out for landlords.

As the final days approached, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he was ruling out a deal where rent law reforms are exchanged for the education tax credit.

During the Silver trial, which lasted for less than five weeks, Glenwood employees and lobbyists explained to prosecutors how the company's LLCs were mobilized to give to candidates who supported extended tax benefits and favorable rent laws and at the same time enhance Republican strength in Albany.

So goes the proposal of Charles Urstadt, former New York state housing commissioner and namesake of 1971's Urstadt Law, which handed Gotham's power to pass local rent laws to the state legislature.

Democrats were afraid, however, to get the blame for letting rent laws expire, which they realized might lead to rent spikes as leases came up for renewal.

Lawmakers in Albany don't appear to be close to any deals that will strengthen rent laws even though both Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have called for that.