Tenant Meeting Tonight - Wed., March 13, 2024

Come hear about

→ The NYC Department of Sanitation on 

• Why should we do it? 
• What does the Department of Sanitation do with our compost matter? 
• How should we do it? 

→ Bloomingdale Aging in Place - a volunteer community group

• what activities?
• who can volunteer?
• what can you can help with?

→  Tenant bills:  contact Governor Hochul as the NYS budget gets finalized. MESSAGE:  I urge you to support "good cause," social housing, and vouchers, and veto any "vacancy reset."

Make sure she supports

• "Good cause eviction" (guaranteed lease renewals for market-rate tenants at no more than 3% increase - or a percentage of inflation - unless good cause is shown)
• Social housing agency to build more Mitchell-Lama type developments
• State housing vouchers for poor people

and opposes the very bad "vacancy reset" bill.  That bill, S.6352/A.6772  would let landlords set the stabilized rents of vacant apartments that had been occupied for 10 years of more at the "fair market rent" - which could more than double the rent.  That would 

• make rent stabilized apartments much less affordable 
• put a target on the back of long-term rent-stabilized tenants, as landlords would have a reason to get rid of them.

This bill could be a Trojan horse: even if this bill itself doesn't pass, it could lead to a "compromise" bill so landlords could get higher increases when the renovate an apartment. (Right now the increases are capped at $83.)