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Rent Board Approves 2.75% Hike on One-Year Leases and 5.25% for Two Years in Contentious Vote
Eleven tenant protesters were arrested outside Hunter College but demands for a rent freeze went unheard, as landlords warned income will lag costs. By Ella Napack Jun 17 9:28pm EDT In a vote affecting the roughly million New York households…
Rent Board Approves 3% Hike for Stabilized Tenants
Jonathan Custodio, The City This article was originally published on Jun 21 8:59pm EDT by THE CITY Landlords will be able to hike rents by 3% later this year for more than one million rent-stabilized apartments. By a 5-4 vote…
Landlords ask Supreme Court to overturn NYC’s rent stabilization law
(The Center Square) — Landlords are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn New York City’s decades-old rent stabilization law, claiming the restrictions violate the Constitution because they cap prices and limit their ability to evict tenants. In a petition…
How the Rent Guidelines Board Sets the Price on Your Next Lease
Just over a million of the city’s apartments are rent-regulated. But who regulates those rents, and how? The answer is the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB), a group of nine people — all appointed by the mayor — who annually evaluate where…
In Near-Daily Protests, Tenants Demand a Stop to Rent-Stabilized Apartment Vacancies
The pressure is on to open the city’s vacant apartments. Since THE CITY reported that nearly 89,000 rent-stabilized apartments were vacant last year in New York City, tenant advocates and lawmakers have increased their calls for solutions as the city’s…
Rent Guidelines Board 3.5% Hike, Biggest in Nearly a Decade
A sharply dividend Rent Guidelines Board voted to increase rents for the city’s nearly 1 million rent regulated apartments by 3.25% in the coming year in a decision that satisfied neither tenants nor landlords. Greg David and Rachel Holliday Smith,…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor