Tenants rallied in the Bronx for "good cause" legislationThe heads of New York’s largest labor unions are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul and state leaders to support legislation that would offer protections to more than 1 million renters by limiting landlords’ abilities to raise rent and evict tenants without “good cause.”
Under the legislation, landlords would still be permitted to evict a tenant but only for specific reasons known as "good cause." Examples of "good cause" include failure to pay rent, causing a nuisance, or if the landlord wants to take back the apartment to use it themselves. The bill would also allow tenants to challenge annual rent increases that are over 3%, or in years when inflation is high, over 150% of the consumer price index, whichever is higher.
Jim Urso, a spokesperson for Hochul, said the governor will work with the legislature and advocates to keep tenants in their homes.The 14 unions include 1199SEIU, which represents healthcare workers, and the New York State Nurses Association. Other signatories represented musicians, taxi drivers, and auto workers.
Officials from the Real Estate Board of New York, the industry’s main lobbying arm, and Community Housing Improvement Program, a group made up of about 4,000 owners of mostly rent-stabilized units, declined to comment. They referred a request for comment to Ross M. Wallenstein, spokesperson for Homeowners for an Affordable New York.
Michelle Ned, a delegate of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, which represents more than 230,000 workers in the state, said she’s witnessed the effects of a lack of protections for renters firsthand. When she moved into her two-bedroom apartment in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, 28 years ago, her rent-stabilized unit went for $900 a month. Today it’s $2,000 a month.
Unreal. Communism is alive and well in NYS
They should have to show proof of rising overhead to raise rent, not just because they can and not because everyone else is doing it
If someone saves up money over their career to buy a property to rent out for extra income why are they obligated to now house someone whom they have no relationship to? Lease is up is a good reason
Housing is a human right. If you make a living owning the roof over someone else's head, you have some moral obligations whether you like it or not. If you don't understand that, get a real job.
I take it the UFT under Mulgrew dud not endorse this? We need him out. ufcuft
Hopefully they make this for large landlords bc an elderly person renting their first floor or something shouldn’t be forced to do anything. Why doesn’t he govt just build more govt housing? This is just them being lazy, stop building condos and built affordable housing.
Yes that is how it’s goes lease is up if it is not renewed time to get out !! NY does not want to honor property rights .
What if the landlord is Ukrainian and the tenant is flying a Russian flag in the window? Why does the landlord have to renew the lease? What if it's a white power flag and the owner is black? Hundreds of reasons why a landlord would want a tenant out... that's why 1/2
Yeah, that’s how leases work. Just because you started renting doesn’t mean you are entitled to be there forever or to have your rent frozen in perpetuity.
Wait, isn't that what a lease is?
This is such nonsense! Tenants sign a lease. Before that lease expires, the landlord offers a renewal at a higher rent. Sometimes that new rent is more than the tenant can afford. So that person finds somewhere cheaper to live. BFD
Remain in “someone else” home after lease expires, yike. What country do we live in? communist NYC of North Korea!!
Good evening. This legislation, along with the 2 year moratorium and 2019 hstpa will force small owners out. Why is it u won’t do an interview with a couple of small owners ? Give us a chance to tell of our experiences since 2019. Thank u
Sad to see the gothamist panders to the socialist losers these days, it used to be a good publication
That’s the point of the lease.
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Yeah, that's how leases work. Would you let a landlord keep a tenant in their lease against THEIR will? Contracts are contracts.
'for no reason other than their lease is up' That, my friend, is a very good reason. Particularly since under the current laws landlords have to provide up to 90 days of advance notice if electing not to renew.
But isn’t that the whole point of negotiated contracts…?
Contracts should state only for 1 year or if can resign another year with new price unless have reason renter to go. Apartment I rented had contract like that but did not know what next year's increase would be. Also had monthly rate after lease was up providing 1 month notice.
How about I take your tv and when you come up with a good reason , I’ll give it back
The agreement is up. That’s how this works. If you want to stay, negotiate an agreement. If not, you move.