Rent Guidelines Board to Meet Tonight

Rent stabilized tenants are bracing themselves for tonight's Rent Guidelines Board meeting where the board will most likely vote for a hike. Expect things to get incredibly noisy tonight! Actually, we imagine the basement of Cooper Union might implode from the feelings of self-pity, anger, and entitlement from both sides. The rent increases owners are asking for is 8%, because of higher gas prices and real estate taxes. And not only that, owners may also ask that rates remain only for one year leases - no more two year leases the tenants can lock into. Newsday says that 9,200 apartments left rent stabilization last year, the biggest number ever. The commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development Shaun Donovan added that though rent stabilization is one important part of affordable housing, "it's not as effectively targeted or as affordable as other units that we're doing in the mayor's plan and a lot of units that we're trying to preserve because it's not targeted to the people who need it the most, and the rents aren't set in any way that aligns to the income levels of the people who are living there." Which can be a valid argument, because there are some people who live in rent-stabilized apartments but don't really need them. At the same time, the rental market overall is crazy, and who can blame people for get their best deal?

Remember the hubbub over keycards at Peter Cooper Village? Well, they have them now. And tonight's public meeting is at Cooper Union's Great Hall, on 7 East 7th Street. The agenda is to discuss rent stabilized apartments and lofts first, and rent stabilized hotels later on.

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By Jen Chung in News on May 8, 2006 12:04 PM

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la_depressionada

Delete the third from in the third sentence.

la_depressionda

Vinny it's worse than mere affectation. I'm sure if moisturizer were to check, oh the Elements of Style for example, moisturizer would discover no one ever graduates Columbia. They graduate from or are graduated from from Columbia. I suppose to add insult to indignity, I could also inform moisturizer that my one bedroom in the East Village is under $500 a month. I used the extra cash to attend, yes you guessed it, Columbia University.

Typographer

Moisturizer, double-hyphens are always a no-no when you are typing on anything other than a mechanical typewriter.

Instead, use an em dash:

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Vinny

Why does someone who can't seem to find the shift key and writes like a 5-year-old have to bring up someone else's grammar and punctuation?

Pot? Meet kettle!

sp

LOL!

Larry

gets

a

If there's a spelling mistake it's a Jen post. But how can you complain about a service that is free?

Jen

Thanks for your comment. I admit my haste to write posts get the better of me.

moisturizer

you know, you guys have a great eye for the relevant and peculiar developments, i don't think anyone's knocking that.

but for the love of god, your readers, and your own self respect:

why, why, oh why does your grammar have to be so consistently poor and lazy? you got into and graduated columbia!

inappropriate punctuation, run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, spelling errors, pronoun swapping, verb tense inconsistency -- why not just spend an extra minute or two to read each story you post? you can't possibly be doing that now.

and also, fvck this rigged rental market. it's an insult to humanity.