Sentences with phrase «said vacancy decontrol»

While the statement was qualified, it's a more tenant - friendly position than the Democratic governor has held in the past and a change from earlier this month, when Cuomo said vacancy decontrol could be «improved,» but «I don't think you ever get to repeal.»

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«The New York State Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, has reaffirmed the long - standing legal practice and widely held understanding of the application of the Rent Stabilization Law's vacancy decontrol provisions,» REBNY's president John Banks said in a statement.

Cuomo has said it is unlikely vacancy decontrol will end, but he is open to modifying it as well as raising the ceiling in the regulations to $ 2,700 a month.

No,» he said, though he alluded hopefully to Mr. Cuomo's call yesterday to end vacancy decontrol.

«We need the laws strengthened, we need to end vacancy decontrol, step up enforcement so that landlords can just stop registering and say they spent the money and raise the rent so the apartment is no longer on the rolls,» McKee said.

She thinks the senator should have voted against any vacancy decontrol — and one of the first things she wants to do in office is try to make sure rent stabilized units can stay that way permanently, she said.

Democrats were seeking an all - out end to vacancy decontrol this year, but Heastie says the Republican - led Senate wouldn't budge on their position.

Quinn blamed her City Council predecessors for authorizing vacancy decontrol in 1993, a move she said that drove 300,000 affordable apartments out of rent - stabilization protection.

Entitled, «The New Housing Emergency,» the report (in full below) says loopholes in the city's current rent - stabilization rules — like vacancy decontrol and rent increases due to renovations — result in the loss of more than 10,000 rent - regulated apartments per year.

They said an earlier Senate bill making no changes to vacancy decontrol was «unacceptable.»

Despite the qualifier, it represented a change of position for Espada who, in a September session with reporters in his office, said he didn't support repealing the vacancy decontrol and instead wants to focus on creating more incentives for developers to construct affordable housing.

When asked whether he'd work to end vacancy decontrol (for apartments that rent for $ 2,000 or more), State Senator Pedro Espada said yes but he added that vacancy decontrol «will affect very few units in our district.»

De Blasio, who has said he will fight for rent reform when a number of laws sunset in Albany this year, also stated his opposition to vacancy decontrol during his remarks.

The state's expiring rent regulations could get the same treatment — though the new Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, says he's going to make a stand for tenant - friendly changes like the repeal of «vacancy decontrol,» which allows landlords to charge market - rate rents after an apartment's price rises above $ 2,500 per month.

Cuomo has not answered questions about the closed - door talks this week, but said he favors a repeal of vacancy decontrol «or at the very least» changes.

Sources said three - way talks were tipping closer to the Senate's plan for rent regulations — which would renew them for eight years but keep in place provisions of vacancy decontrol, a scourge of tenant advocates that takes apartments out of the program when their monthly rent rises above $ 2,500.

«We would really love to see the repeal of vacancy decontrol,» Goldstein said.