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The Legal Aid Society and Legal Services of New York have filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court to overturn a controversial vote in June by the Rent Guidelines Board to add a supplemental rent hike for tenants who have lived in a rent-stabilized apartment for over six years and who pay $1,000 or less a month in rent. The lawsuit argues that requiring tenants to pay an extra $45 or $85 is a higher increase than what's allowed under this year’s RGB guidelines. A press release from Legal Services describes the hike as “a poor tax” against low-income tenants; at a press conference yesterday City Council Speaker Christine Quinn declared that "this unprecedented increase on longtime, low-income residents could very well drive some residents out of their homes. This rent hike proves once and for all that the RGB is completely out of touch and needs to be reformed.”
Rent Guidelines Board Sued Over Rent Hikes
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I wish they'd publish a list of every rent controlled and rent stabilized apartment and who the occupant was supposed to be and also offer a whistleblower incentive for neighbors to turn people who are abusing the system in. Give them a reward for ratting people out. Because almost everyone I know who is living in one of these apartments is NOT poor- own houses elsewhere or are living illegally under someone else's name.
I am waiting for the Sun to close down this month. They seems to print more garbage as they reach their demise.
f*ck you quinn
Oh, well, if Christine Quinn said it, it must be true. It's not like she's corrupt. Or in a conflict of interest situation. Or the type of pandering scumbag term limits were invented for. Nope.
Fuck them, there's plenty of apartments in Yonkers for less than $1,000 per month if they don't like it.
Wow! All you guys that are hatin' on rent-stabilization must be suckers that pay WAY to much rent, or just moved here.
I personally love my rent-stabilized apartment. I am not rich, and I don't own any property - I just have lived in the same apartment for a long time and pay my rent on time. My rent is still basically half a months work. Rent stabilization keeps neighborhoods intact. Without rent-stabilization NYC would basically be middle America.... which it is slowly becoming anyway.
Just have the tennants produce a tax form during lease renewal and let their stated incomes determine where they live next. And while people like Bozack might keep their apartments, the ones that make way too much money for their UWS '3' at $1200 should get out and quit making market rate tennants subsidize their trips to Europe.
NannyState - That sounds reasonable.