Sentences with phrase «vacant apartments went»

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Diaz Jr. — a frequent critic of the mayor who is oft - cited as a potential primary challenger — received nearly $ 100,000 in donations connected to a Queens - based construction company that went on to be awarded $ 1.4 million from Diaz Jr.'s fiscal year 2011 capital budget to build an apartment building on vacant land on Pelham Parkway.

Mr. de Blasio specifically called for the end of vacancy decontrol, a law that allows property owners to take apartments off the rent - regulated list when they go vacant.

The industry reps, however, refused to discuss ending «vacancy decontrol,» a process despised by Silver that allows landlords to deregulate certain apartments once they go vacant.

DiNapoli blamed the drop — less than 1 percent of all rent - regulated apartments — largely on late - 1990s measures that allow landlords to deregulate units after they go vacant or when the monthly rents on the units surpass $ 2,000.

While Sumberg pointed out that NYCHA told auditors there were 2,342 vacant apartments as of September 2014, Kadushin responded that the number had gone down to 1,024 by May 2015.

The conventional wisdom says there's a finite pool of housing demand, and if more of it goes toward home purchase, then apartment owners will be left with a bunch of vacant units — or they'll lose pricing power.

«We've got about 2,500 vacant apartments in the city now, and we've been going to landlords, ranging from people who have a basement suite to very large landlords who have hundreds of units on the market, who have been offering discounts, special deals and flexible leases in order to get people into decent homes before they get on their feet,» Nenshi told the Calgary Herald.