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Adriano Espaillat and dozens of uptown women community and tenant leaders from across the district gather to discuss the «historic» nature of Alcántara's candidacy, 210 Sherman Ave., Manhattan.
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Often, as indicated in the story above, religious writings «sent from God» are the central tenant of these religious leaders, and provide them the «proof» they need to sway the masses.
«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.»
Both fall short of what Mr. Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and tenant leaders called for: an end to vacancy decontrol, whereby a property owner may remove an apartment from the rent control program if it becomes unoccupied.
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.
David's missive asserted that Johnson had agreed that the city should kick in $ 400 million toward the MTA's emergency construction plan — against de Blasio's wishes — and that the state would withhold $ 200 million in funding from the Housing Authority until the mayor, council and tenant leaders picked a private contractor to undertake repairs.
Under pressure from political leaders and tenant activists, the Rent Guidelines Board had voted two years in a row to freeze rents on one - year leases, and to permit increases of just 2 percent on two - year leases.
It is unlikely all of them will be on the ballot at the time of the primary, but of the ones that appeared before us, we should be aware that Rosie Mendez, an attorney, former tenant advocate specializing in housing issues, and District Leader, leads the pack, with the strongest organization and a battery of endorsements by government leaders including Reps. Velázquez & Maloney, Assemblymembers Glick & Sanders, Senators Connor & Krueger, Council Member Christine Quinn and many of the state committee members and district leaders from all over the Lower East Side and the East Side.
The monitor will be picked in consultation with the City Council and public housing tenant leaders — but not with any input from Mayor de Blasio.
In fact, even after Silver and Skelos were indicted and their relationships with Litwin's Glenwood Corp. revealed, Cuomo and new legislative leaders delivered a blow to tenant groups by enacting what many see as a real - estate - friendly renewal of the rent laws, deflecting pressure from advocates and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The mayor promised before his election that he would join tenant leaders in trying to wrest control of rent regulation from the state so that the city would be able to make rent laws stricter.
Fifty tenant leaders showed up at her office to deliver 900 postcards from people in her district at a Christmas - themed caroling event after she cancelled a meeting with us twice.
Rosenthal branded herself as a leader who passed legislation that offered tenants protections from landlord harassment, who called for more funding for nonprofit organizations in the city, and who supported a controversial neighborhood school rezoning.
In a lawsuit, tenant leaders representing the 400,000 people living in public housing have asked a judge to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the New York City Housing Authority because it has failed to provide heat and hot water, keep residents safe from lead, involve tenants in policymaking and hire residents, as required by federal regulations.
Both fall short of what Mr. Cuomo, Mr. de Blasio and tenant leaders called for: an end to vacancy decontrol, whereby a property owner may remove an apartment from the rent control program if it becomes unoccupied.
Appearing on NY1's Inside City Hall, Ms. Mark - Viverito dismissed demands from tenants and faith leaders for Ms. Olatoye to step down over increasingly long waits for basic maintenance work.
High profile speakers from Europe and the Middle East will take part in this conference including Mark Creamer, Head of Valuation & Advisory Services, EMEA Region, CBRE, Cris Tollast, Managing Director, Office Agency & Tenant Representation Cross Border Service, EMEA, CBRE, Ahmed Al Orouki, General Manager, Akar, Qatar; Ahmed Al Asairy, General Manager, Tathmeen, Saudi Arabia; Anthony O'Sullivan, Assurance Real Estate Leader, MENA, Ernest & Young; Craig Cowie - Head of Real Estate Investment & Advisory, Qinvest; Simon Townsend, Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and a number of other speakers.
Judi Kende, vice president and New York market leader at Enterprise Community Partners, urges the New York State Legislature to strengthen rent laws and provide enough funds for enforcement efforts, with the goal of preventing affordable units from leaving the rent stabilization system and curbing tenant harassment.