Sentences with phrase «to rent regulation»

That is because the law largely took control of rent regulation out of the hands of the city government and gave it to the state legislature.

The legislature, a body with many representatives from upstate districts that have few renters, has weakened rent regulation laws year after year.

And that issue, as you know, is still being debated as we speak, although we see some very promising signs on rent regulation.

This is the same bill with extending rent regulation right?

Silver wanted to link the expiration date to the end of the new rent regulation bill.

The bill to end this year's legislative session included several reforms to the state's education policy coupled with rent regulations, property tax relief, and more.

Nevertheless, fault lines are already forming over some key issues, including rent regulations and how to measure teacher performance.

DO seek out the input of all interested parties on high - stakes issues like rent regulation, preferably at hearings that are open to the public.

[1] This is not to suggest that rent regulation doesn't play an important role in regulating landlord - tenant relations.

The current law governing rent regulation is set to expire in just a few weeks.

After decades of fighting to get rent regulations off the books this «leader» is using them over an issue that he doesn't even need to bring up for a vote.

He noted that the extension of rent regulations protected 50,000 affordable units over the next 10 years.

The vacancy rate must remain at or below 5 percent to justify rent regulation.

The real estate industry wants to weaken rent regulation, and hedge funds are big backers of charters.

I would be really interested to read into some proof that rent regulation actually was an underlying cause of the destruction of some of these neighborhoods.

She added that she will remain an independent voice for «tenants and families» throughout her district, where rent regulation and affordable housing are top concerns.

For an international investor, he doesn't have to worry about managing a slew of tenants that are protected by long leases or maybe rent regulations.

The chamber instead passed a two - day extension of rent regulations without much debate.

It also includes a $ 1.3 billion property tax rebate program for upstate and suburban homeowners for four years, which will be tied to rent regulation laws.

He'll now have an even larger say on issues like extending rent regulations and mayoral control of public schools, things that he hinted will be balanced against some eternal suburban concerns.

The Democratic - led Assembly today plans to vote on an expansion of rent regulations for New York City and some suburban communities, a measure that is unlikely to have support in the Republican - controlled Senate.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS)-- Warning that the future of millions was at stake, Council Speaker Christine Quinn is heading to Albany to urge the state's Senate to renew and strengthen rent regulations in New York City before they expire.

At the meeting, held at 250 Broadway across the street from City Hall, legislators gathered to come up with a contingency plan in case rent regulations expire on Monday.

As far as the goal of reducing displacement, the Furman Center points to strategies such as rent regulation programs, or policies that give low - income families prioritized preference for subsidized housing as helpful.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio embarks on his mission to create and preserve affordable housing and fight for stronger rent regulation laws, he could find himself caught between tenant advocates and the real estate industry.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The fight over rent regulations stretched from the city to Albany Thursday, with several protesters getting arrested and dozens of tenants later swarming a Rent Guidelines Board meeting.

Vacancy deregulation allows landlords to remove apartments from rent regulation if they become vacant and the legal regulated rent reaches $ 2,500.

It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another year.

The suit, on behalf of nine tenants, claims that a Brooklyn Heights building, 89 Hicks Street, should have been under rent regulation after the Jehovah's Witnesses sold it to Kushner.

Public Advocate Letitia James announced earlier on Friday her office will help provide tenants with legal assistance if rent regulations expire, and her office will work with Legal Services NYC and the Legal Aid Society.

De Blasio has proposed a package of housing ideas that would make state rent regulations more tenant - friendly and alter a state tax - rebate plan that's intended to subsidize affordable housing, all to advance his progressive agenda.

«We're talking about rent regulations for over 2 million New Yorkers expiring at midnight and they still haven't gotten their act together.

The measure had been on the verge of being passed Wednesday, but was defeated late that night when many Democrats voted «no» in an effort to ramp up pressure to pass tougher rent regulations, which Republicans oppose.

One of the state's most powerful lobbies, the real estate industry, has been dealt a favorable hand amid the chaos in Albany with rent regulation bills up in the air.

«Senate passes Rent Regulation Extender.

The current rent regulations expire June 15, and while they are expected to be extended in some regard, the particulars are up in the air.

The march kicked off at 155th Street and Broadway, in Washington Heights and stretched to Dyckman Street in Inwood, neighborhoods that are especially affected by rent regulations.

ALBANY — With a Monday deadline looming, state legislators introduced three bills adjusting the 421 - a tax abatement program and rent regulations affecting millions of tenants in New York City.

With New York State rent regulations laws set to expire in days, elected officials, community leaders and residents gathered for...

The state's Tenant Protection Unit — a unit of the Division of Homes and Community Renewal that oversees New York's rent regulation program — first began investigating Croman based on harassment complaints it received from his tenants, and later made a criminal referral to the AG's office.

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.

The CBC's Carol Kellerman says rent regulation is benefitting the wrong people, costs too much and needs an overhaul.

With a law that governed rent regulations set to expire in 2011, Mr. Dorego testified that he and other real estate executives were called to two meetings with state leaders in June, one at the governor's office in New York City and one at his office in Albany.

Here's Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver during a CapTon interview last week making, for the first time that I can recall, a connection between the passage of stricter rent regulations when the existing laws sunset this year and the property tax cap that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing.

ALBANY, ALBANY: Last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie agreed on a short, retroactive extension of rent regulations through Tuesday.

Through that disciplined system Glenwood often pushed its own agenda on the 421a tax exemption, New York City rent regulation and campaign finance reform, among other issues.

«Two weeks ago the Assembly passed a comprehensive bill to renew and strengthen rent regulations which was supported by Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and tenant advocates,» Heastie said in a statement.

The Assembly bill continues rent regulations until Wednesday.