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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/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)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)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