Sentences with phrase «stabilized apartments for»

Under state and city rent regulations, tenants can continue renewing the lease in their rent - stabilized apartments for as long as they use it as a primary residence, and landlords can increase rent only by an annual percentage set by a city board.

In 2010, they endorsed Joyce Johnson, a Seagram's exec with limited political experience, but they couldn't then endorse Charlie Rangel, whose use of rent - stabilized apartments for campaign purposes — a story that the Times uncovered — led to the longtime pol's censure in the House.

The Rent Guidelines Boards (one in New York City and one each in Nassau, Westchester, and Rockland counties) set maximum allowable rates for rent increases in stabilized apartments for one and two - year lease renewals.

The part where that greedy entitled jerk hoarded FOUR rent stabilized apartments for himself in a poor district where affordable housing is becoming more and more scarce?

Rangel was found to have misused federal resources to solicit donations for a City College of New York center named in his honor, used a rent - stabilized apartment for his campaign office, failed to pay taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic and filed inaccurate financial disclosure forms.

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At 10 a.m., Housing Rights Initiative and NYC Council Oversight & Investigations Committee Chair Ritchie Torres announce an investigation into Kushner Companies for falsifying permits with the NYC Department of Buildings and the impact it had on reducing the number of rent - stabilized apartments across the city, Kushner Companies Headquarters, 666 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

This creates a perverse incentive for landlords to do all in their power to raise rents, push out rent - stabilized tenants, and bring apartments into the open market.

The House Ethics Committee investigated him for using a rent - stabilized apartment and congressional letterhead for campaign activities as well as for failing to disclose personal assets.

The Rent Guidelines Board says most tenants in rent - stabilized apartments spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, which is the federal standard for affordable housing.

They called for the elimination of a loophole that lets landlords boost rent by 20 percent when tenants vacate a rent - stabilized apartment, as well as a rule that removes units from rent regulations once the rent gets high enough, allowing units to go to market - rate prices.

A House investigative committee is charging Rangel with ethics violations, stemming from a nearly two - year investigation into his finances, his failure to report rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic, his use of multiple rent - stabilized apartments, and his efforts to fundraise for a City College center named after him.

He called universal pre-kindergarten and rent freezes for rent - stabilized apartments the only two progressive things the mayor has done, criticizing his non-committal stance on providing reduced transit fares as «regressive.»

The New York City Rent Guidelines Board is set to cast a preliminary vote Tuesday night on rent hikes for the city's one million rent - stabilized apartments.

Rangel is under investigation for allegedly failing to pay taxes on a vacation home in the Dominican Republic, using rent - stabilized apartments in Manhattan and conducting improper fundraising, among other charges.

Rangel, who will now embark on a 21st term, had counted on the loyalty of the Harlem community as he faces a public trial for allegedly failing to pay taxes on a vacation home in the Dominican Republic, keeping multiple rent - stabilized apartments and conducting improper fundraising, among other House ethics charges.

New York City's Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) has voted for a freeze on regulated rents, a historic move that impacts more than one million rent - stabilized apartments in the city.

[NYP] • Despite some politicians» calls for a rent freeze, the Rent Guidelines Board has recommended increases «between 2 and 4.5 percent» (in other words, 4.5 percent) on New York's stabilized apartments.

The bill, said Lopez, is «a step towards creating certainty for the thousands of tenants of rent - stabilized apartments.»

While Governor Andrew Cuomo lobbies for rent - regulation, New York City landlords claim that they can not sustain their businesses without rent increases for stabilized apartments,...

«And our goal is to make sure that the rent - stabilized apartments we have today stay affordable for the long - term and we don't lose any more of them.»

Wright's bill would also create succession rights for rent - stabilized apartments in 421 - a buildings.

Landlords will also be held accountable by state housing officials for how much they spend to upgrade rent - stabilized apartments before they're allowed to charge tenants for building improvements.

NYCHA plans to offer private developers a chance to build mixed - income towers on underused parcels to stabilize the agency's finances and create apartments for poor tenants.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is celebrating a state Supreme court ruling to uphold a recent rent freeze for people living in 1 million of the city's rent - stabilized apartments.

The Rent Guidelines Board voted to consider a 0 to 2 percent increase in rent for stabilized apartments with one - year leases, while stabilized apartments with two - year leases will face an increase of.5 percent to 3.5 percent.

Rents for New York's stabilized apartments are set to rise for the first time in three years after the Rent Guidelines Board approved a...

Developers Washington Square Partners and Acadia's original plans for the 4650 Broadway project site — which were voted down by Community Board 12 in March after community backlash — included a 23 - story building with 372 rent - stabilized 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.

Rents for New York's stabilized apartments are set to rise for the first time in three years after the Rent Guidelines Board approved a 1.25 percent hike for one - year leases and a 2 percent hike for two - year leases.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has campaigned publicly for a rent freeze on rent - stabilized apartments in the past, but this year he has not spoken publicly about his wishes, according to the New York Times.

TRIBECA — Elected officials pledged their support Thursday for the embattled tenants of TriBeCa's Independence Plaza North, who are fighting for their apartments to become rent - stabilized.

The Assembly's Democratic majority supports strengthening the law, while the Republican - led Senate passed legislation that would add income and residency verifications to ensure tenants aren't cheating the system by living in rent - controlled and rent - stabilized apartments they aren't eligible for.

Numerous NYCHA residents, those in affected rent - stabilized apartments and others in the Haven Plaza complex on East 12th Street, which saw residents transporting buckets of water to darkened apartments for days, have also begun to question whether they should withhold their rents, Rivera added.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson today announced that two Brooklyn landlords have been indicted on unlawful eviction and other charges for allegedly forcing or attempting to force rent - stabilized tenants out of their homes by allegedly destroying their apartments and making them uninhabitable in an effort to destabilize the apartments in order to collect significantly higher market - rate rents.

Fact Sheet # 31: Guide to Rent Increases for Rent Stabilized Apartments in Nassau County -[PDF version]

A proposal from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio would let anyone living in a loft — even if their name isn't on the lease — apply for protections under the loft law, which lets residents make their apartments legal, have them brought up to code, and get rent stabilized leases.

For the second year straight, the Rent Guidelines Association froze rates for people living in 1 million of the city's rent - stabilized apartmenFor the second year straight, the Rent Guidelines Association froze rates for people living in 1 million of the city's rent - stabilized apartmenfor people living in 1 million of the city's rent - stabilized apartments.

Also in the Post is a report on the high - profile tenants of the Lenox Terrace apartment complex in Queens, where U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel caught fire for having four rent - stabilized apartments earlier this month.

NEW YORK CITY — Regulations governing how much landlords can charge for the city's roughly 1 million rent stabilized apartments expired at midnight Tuesday.

In exchange for the payments to his son from the real estate firm and environmental firm, Dean Skelos introduced legislation to extend the controversial 421 - a program which provides tax abatements to developers and voted for legislation that allows landlords to increase rent on rent stabilized apartments.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has been vague about where he stands on strengthening protections for New York City's rent stabilized and rent controlled apartments.

It accounts for nearly two - thirds of the stabilized apartments lost each year.

«His position is you have to protect the tenant at all costs — without understanding they're actually going to get hurt,» said RSA president Joseph Strasburg, who argues not allowing rent increases for one million rent - stabilized apartments will leave landlords so broke that buildings fall into disrepair.

Critics of the program want the city to instead consider longterm, affordable housing solutions for the homeless instead of makeshift, shelters cobbled together with rent - stabilized apartments.

But that would be a setback for both Mr. de Blasio and tenant activists who hope to impose restrictions on landlords of rent - stabilized apartments.

The Rent Stabilization Association has also gone to court to challenge a decision last year by the Rent Guidelines Board, for a second straight year, to bar a rent increase on one - year leases for tenants in rent - stabilized apartments.

Mr. Rangel, who has been in office almost 40 years, is preparing for a House hearing on 13 ethics charges, including improper fund - raising and hoarding rent - stabilized apartments.

In a letter of support for the project, U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins wrote»... this company's vision includes the first of its kind partnership with the «Say Yes Buffalo» program in which The Phoenix Brewery Apartments LLC will donate 10 % of its projects once stabilized to this board based community education collaborative to increase high school and postsecondary completion rates.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio raised rents on properties he owns in Park Slope, while at the same time calling for rent freezes for the city's roughly 1 million rent - stabilized apartments.

Despite getting the support of the Queens congressional delegation, the U.S. House voted 333 to 79 last Thursday to censure U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D - Astoria) for improperly soliciting donations, improperly using a rent - stabilized apartment and tax evasion.