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hrmjustin

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 09:50 AM Jun 2014

NYC’s Rent Guidelines Board Votes To Allow Rent Increases In Stabilized Apartments

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Tenants erupted in protest, but some landlords were also unhappy Monday night, when the New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted against a rent freeze for tenants who live in stabilized apartments.

The board voted 5-4 to allow a 1 percent increase on one-year leases, and a 2.75 percent increase on two-year leases.

After the vote, angry tenants erupted — waving signs and storming up to the podium as they chanted and yelled, reported WCBS 880?s Marla Diamond. They were held back by security guards.

"No rent freeze, no peace,” renters shouted throughout the nearly two-hour meeting.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/06/23/nycs-rent-guidelines-board-to-vote-on-rent-freeze/

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NYC’s Rent Guidelines Board Votes To Allow Rent Increases In Stabilized Apartments (Original Post) hrmjustin Jun 2014 OP
Rent Guidelines Board Approves Pointless Yet Deeply Infuriating One-Percent Increase hrmjustin Jun 2014 #1
Mayor de Blasio not happy with rent increases, but not surprised hrmjustin Jun 2014 #2
Rent Guidelines Board member who voted down the rent freeze took off on a plane hrmjustin Jun 2014 #3
 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
1. Rent Guidelines Board Approves Pointless Yet Deeply Infuriating One-Percent Increase
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 09:55 AM
Jun 2014

Anna Merlan



In a move that angered everyone and pleased precisely nobody, the city's Rent Guidelines Board voted last night in a meeting at Cooper Union to increase the rent on rent-stabilized apartments by one percent. That's after Mayor Bill de Blasio called for a rent freeze , saying at an unrelated press conference that the city is locked in an "unfair pattern."
"We've had a pattern in recent years of tenants being charged substantial increases," he said at the presser yesterday, "while the actual costs to landlords did not increase anywhere near the same amount."

The mayor's words were apparently for naught. As the Times points out, two of the six people de Blasio appointed to the board actually voted in favor of the increase.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/06/rent_guidelines_board_one-percent_increase_rent_stabilized_what_the_fuck.php

 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
2. Mayor de Blasio not happy with rent increases, but not surprised
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:07 PM
Jun 2014

JENNIFER FERMINO

Mayor de Blasio said he was disappointed that the Rent Guidelines Board ignored his recommendations for a rent freeze, but not surprised.

"It was not a surprise to me that there would be a difference of opinion and we knew it would be a close vote either way you slice it," said de Blasio.

"But I was trying to make very clear what I thought was the right way to go."

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/mayor-de-blasio-happy-rent-increases-surprised-blog-entry-1.1842266

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