Sentences with phrase «vacancy decontrol in»

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.

McKee noted that Dilan voted for vacancy decontrol in the City Council in 1994, despite promising his constituents (on at least two occasions when McKee was present) that he would not do so.

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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.

Heastie was talking about ending vacancy decontrol, which began in 1993 and was greatly expanded in 1997.

But the fact is that political achievement was overshadowed by what tenant advocates did not get in the final deal: an abolition of vacancy decontrol, or a repeal of the Urstadt Law, which would have returned control of New York City rent stabilization policy to the city.

I was up in Albany when we adopted vacancy decontrol 14 years ago.

De Blasio, who had previous been somewhat vague about he wanted changed, told state lawmakers in Albany on Wednesday that vacancy decontrol should be eliminated.

The City will work with the state as rent regulation comes up for renewal in 2015 to prevent abuses of the vacancy and luxury decontrol provisions and capital improvement rules.

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.»

In the past, legislators and governors have used the sunset date to shift the balance from tenants to landlords, with what's known as vacancy decontrol, once the monthly price of an apartment and the tenants» income reach a certain threshold.

Golden has at times insisted that the problem of vacancy decontrol — where landlords claim to make repairs to vacant apartments to price them out of rent control — is not a real problem in his district but instead a worry for Manhattan legislators.

A similar standoff with Republicans forced Democrats in 1997 to accept «vacancy» and «luxury» decontrol, which allow landlords to escape price regulations when monthly rents exceed $ 2,000 and tenants earn more than $ 175,000 annually.

Oh, here's a recent op - ed by Greg in Norwood News on vacancy decontrol.

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.

The Democratic - led Assembly in May backed legislation that would end vacancy decontrol, a plank Senate Republicans are unlikely to support.

Capital NY's Laura Nahmias reported earlier this afternoon that some Assembly Democrats are pushing for changes to the rent agreement, including an increase in the threshold for vacancy decontrol, though the governor's office denied that was the case.

A repeal of vacancy decontrol is not expected to win few friends in the majority GOP conference as rent control is due to expire on Monday.

Cuomo in an op / ed over the weekend backed ending vacancy decontrol or at the very least modifying it.

In order to save more stabilized units, Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed to abolish vacancy decontrol, a measure through which landlords can de-regulate apartments when those are vacated.

Last Friday, housing adovcates rallied outside State Sen. Jeff Klein's home in Pelham Parkway, to protest his refusal to support a vacancy decontrol bill.

The letter demands an end to something known as vacancy decontrol, under which landlords can take empty apartments out of the system when the next tenant would pay more than $ 2,500 in rent.

An increase in the rent threshold at which apartments become market - rate, indexed to rise each year, is a step forward, but it only slows the bleeding — and is well short of de Blasio's target, ending vacancy decontrol completely.

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.

«We must eliminate vacancy decontrol or at the very least significantly raise vacancy decontrol thresholds,» he wrote in an opinion piece in the Daily News.

One major reason apartments exit the rent regulation system is because they are subject to something called «vacancy decontrol,» which allows landlords to deregulate a unit when a tenant leaves and the rent reaches $ 2,500 a month, up from $ 2,000 a month in 2011.

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.»

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Sen. Espada also congratulates himself on «affordable housing,» a claim sure to enrage tenant advocates who were trying to get him to address vacancy decontrol and other pro-tenant legislation before all hell broke lose in the Capitol.

Ms. James, a Brooklyn Democrat, laid out an aggressive agenda to curtail the powers of landlords, including an end to vacancy decontrol for units in the rent control system, a ban on property owners from increasing rents on vacant units, and a repeal of the Urstadt Law that puts the city's rent laws in the hands of the State Legislature.

«With the shortage of housing in New York City and its surrounding areas, vacancy decontrol only further erodes the stock of rent - regulated housing,» Wright wrote.

Senate Republicans are not interested in repealing vacancy decontrol or increasing the threshold.

In 2011, the chamber approved changes that exceeded what the Senate would agree to, including repealing vacancy decontrol, which allows landlords to take a unit out of rent stabilization if the legal rent exceeds a certain amount.

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.

«We've already lost 300,000 apartments to vacancy decontrol and if this continues there will be no rent regulated apartments in 15 years and New York will be for the rich and very rich,» Glover added.

Folks can get involved in future efforts to end vacancy decontrol by visiting the Housing Here and Now website or their blog.

Instead, he received just a small change in what's called vacancy decontrol.

New York State Senators and Assembly members (or their representatives) in attendance signed a statement pledging to address repeal of vacancy decontrol with their chamber's Speaker, Housing Chair, and the Governor by January 10, 2009.

Tenant activists and Democrats — including Governor Andrew Cuomo — questioned the bill because it requires income verification for tenants of rent - regulated apartments and makes no change in vacancy decontrol, the process by which apartments become deregulated when their monthly rent tops $ 2,500.

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.

New York City has lost nearly 250,000 rent stabilized units to vacancy decontrol since the law was enacted in 1994.