Pols accused of pitting landlords against tenants in housing hunger games
Calling it the “housing hunger games,” city landlords say the government its pitting tenants against them in a battle to see who is more deserving....
Tag : rent guidelines board
Industry looks to feds as renters stage strike
The Real Estate Board of New York is calling on the federal government to launch an emergency rental assistance program that would help both tenants...
RGB quashes calls for rent freeze as tenants protest
By Maria Rocha-Buschel The possibility of a rent freeze was quashed last Thursday at the Rent Guidelines Board’s preliminary vote, held at Cooper Union’s Great...
City approves increases of up to four percent for rent-stabilized tenants
By Sabina Mollot At a raucous meeting at Cooper Union in Manhattan, the Rent Guidelines Board, in a preliminary vote, approved a rent increase of...
Landlords group to call for four percent hike on one-year leases
The Rent Stabilization Association, which has sued the de Blasio administration over issues such as water rates and rent freezes, will call for a four...
Report: Rent-stabilized Stuy Town tenants see highest rent hikes in the city
By Maria Rocha-Buschel Rent-stabilized buildings in the Stuyvesant Town and Gramercy area had the greatest increases in rent in Manhattan from 2014 to 2015, a...
Landlords group questions rent board’s ‘alternative data’
The group that represents 25,000 landlords of one million rent-stabilized apartments last week accused the Rent Guidelines Board of playing fast and loose with its...
Tenant group heading to court to protect RGB rent freeze
By Sabina Mollot A group of tenants from around the city are hoping to intervene in a lawsuit that was filed in July aimed at...
Rent freeze hurts quality of affordable housing stock
By REBNY President John Banks For the second year in a row, the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) voted for a zero percent increase in rent...
Rent-stabilized tenants, landlords bash Airbnb during RGB hearing
By Sabina Mollot In a historic first for the annual tenant versus landlord battle that is the Rent Guidelines Board, both sides are in agreement....