Albany, NY – Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is ratcheting up his campaign to extend and expand the city’s rent regulations.
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“It’s time to declare once again a housing emergency,” Silver said as he gathered 25 members of his Democratic conference on the City Hall steps to release a report on what Silver called a housing crisis in New York.
The city’s current rent regulations will expire in June unless Silver can cut a deal with Gov. Cuomo and the Republican-controlled Senate to renew them.
An Assembly bill introduced in January would make it more difficult for landlords to raise rents, lower the allowable increases following apartment renovations and vacancies and increase the rent ceiling for stabilized apartments from $2,000 to $3,000 per month.
Silver has also discussed tying the rent bill to Republican priorities like extending a tax break for developers known as 421-A.
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Why not lower the taxes, con ed, gas, oil, phone & water charges. Put a freeze, no a roll back to these charges. Lower bread, milk, gas & all grocery charges.
Its time to declare a “common sense” emergency, NOT a “housing emergency”. Silver is pandering to the renters again but this time his proposal defies all logic. We need MORE housing built and upgraded. It will not happen under rent control. Housing should be totally deregulated and landlords allowed to charge whatever the market will allow. If some poor yidden can’t afford to live in NYC then they can relocate to Monsey or Lakewood where housing is much cheaper. We don’t tell markets what they can charge for bread or the shlachthois what they can charge for chicken. Why is housing different. Silver should simply acknowledge that too many New Yorkers shouldn’t be living here.
Socialists?
If you can’t afford to live in the city move out – the way the system works now its almost useless to be a small landlord in the city
My property has been reassessed and the value increased 25% also my rate is up 10%; why not do something about THAT? THAT is the real crisis. So now the LL’s pay more in tax but collect less in rent?! Oh, that’s right, Shelly’s constituancy is 90% plus renters. He noises would not be so disturbing if he did not plan to hold the NYS government hostage to his confiscatory ideas.
i guess the rent protecton lobbyists check early this month