Pols accused of pitting landlords against tenants in housing hunger games
As Rent Guidelines Board approves a six month rent freeze, landlords say politicians are playing political games with people lives.
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Landlords throw cold water on water rate hike
Water Board votes to hike water bills across the city by 2.76 percent
RSA asks city to increase apartment rents
Landlord group calls for a range of three to five percent increases as the annual RGB hearingS get underway
Landlords call for investigation into soaring insurance costs
CHIP claims to have evidence that suggests some providers may be engaged in redlining
Owners call on Cuomo to scrap RGB after it delivers another rent freeze
REBNY leads fall for standard formula that strips the politics out of the math of operating a building
RGB report shows small building owners buckling under cost weight
By Jackson Chen The city’s property owners are feeling the squeeze of increasing operating costs and proposed legislation. According to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board, the price of operating a rent stabilized building has risen 5.5 percent since March 2018. In its annual review, the RGB tracks several factors including...
Rent compromise leaves landlords and tenants in same boat
By Maria Rocha-Buschel A “compromise” between tenants and landlords left neither side happy this week as the city’s Rent Guidelines Board ended a two year moratorium on rents. The RGB voted on Tuesday to increase rents on the city’s one million-plus rent-stabilized apartments 1.25 percent for one-year leases and two...
RSA lawyers fight rent freeze, citing RGB “errors” over tenant affordability
By Sabina Mollot Lawyers for landlords group Rent Stabilization Association (RSA) were met by an angry crowd of protesters as they arrived in court to argue against a citywide rent freeze yesterday (Tuesday). Despite freezing temperatures and snow, the sign-waving group of renters, made up mostly of seniors, led chants...
RSA launches new campaign against “puppet master” de Blasio
Days after filing a lawsuit to overturn the rent freeze enacted last month and alleging that the Rent Guidelines Board is advancing the political agenda of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Rent Stabilization Association has launched an advertising campaign to promote their message. The RSA is the City’s largest landlord organization with 25,000 members...
Landlords sue to overturn New York City rent freeze
The city’s biggest landlord organization is looking to build a winning streak in the courts as it sues the Rent Guidelines Board over its decision to enact a rent freeze. The Rent Stabilization Association, which represents 25,000 landlords of one million rent-stabilized apartments across the city, has lodged a lawsuit...