“The dynamic between tenants in Kingston and Albany is akin to a race, where tenants ‘want everyone to get to the finish line.’”

Hoping ⁦Albany Common Council⁩ opts in first, but honestly we would be just as excited if ⁦City of Kingston⁩ beats us to it!💪🏾 cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/05…

Although no upstate tenants are covered by good cause yet, tenants in Albany will soon be!

Plug in the rent increases you’ve received over the last few years and tell us if GCE would have protected you in the comments.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible moms in the Capital District and beyond. 

Nearly half of our hotline callers identify themselves as mothers, making mothers the backbone of our fight for housing justice. 💐🫶🩷

UTA is excited to be in NYC today to connect with other Housing Justice For All coalition members! We found this great mug at the 🏠 we stayed at last night! #GoodPawsForGoodCause #LessRentMoreControl

Every week we get one 🚪 closer to winning rent control in Albany!

Go to Linktr.ee/utalbany to sign up for the next canvass.

Totally unacceptable--Saratoga courts have sided w/notorious LL Michael Giavanone, who keeps levying false claims against tenants so he can evict them & turn their homes into boat storage. Carrie Woerner Tish James what are you doing to protect them?
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Good cause laws are only controversial because they truly give tenants the power to fight for stable housing.

The City of Albany was the first to pass a local law and we look forward to being the first to opt-into state law. We know we won’t be the last. timesunion.com/capitol/articl…

Did you know that seniors in NY have special rights, including the right to end your lease early if you are moving to senior housing?!

Thanks to Albany Law School for hosting Senior Citizens Law Day so we can tell Capital District seniors about their housing rights. 👵🏼🏠👴🏾

In 2022, Johnson v. Grants Pass found that governments couldn’t punish people for using rudimentary shelter from the elements if they were “involuntarily homeless.” Discover how San Francisco argued for more lenient policies and pushed to continue sweeps: bit.ly/3LuZ5W0

Proud to have hosted our first “RTC Road Show” at Albany Law School last week as part of our our revived Tenant Attorney Pipeline initiative—building out the next generation of smart, passionate housing attorneys who will one day soon implement a statewide RTC for ALL new yorkers!

Tenant leaders from across our RTC movement are condemning the state budget, which included multiple giveaways to landlords, a severely watered down Good Cause Eviction, and NO Right to Counsel!

Read our coalition's full statement on the budget: bit.ly/rtc2024statebu…

NEW: Analysis from the Alliance's Homelessness Research Institute compares how data-backed solutions to homelessness compare in effectiveness to punitive approaches (tickets, fines, arrests, etc.), in light of #JohnsonVGrantsPass .
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.Governor Kathy Hochul did not solve the housing crisis.

Instead she pushed through a housing deal written by the real estate industry to ensure they keep getting richer off the backs of hardworking tenants.

Our statement on the housing deal. housingjusticeforall.org/statement-hous…

As we all pour over Governor Kathy Hochul's #GoodCause bill:

Remember it was originally a simple, 4-page bill creating a near-universal right to housing stability that millions of renters could exercise.

Now it's a logistical nightmare written in page after page of crisp legalese.

And here's the IAI cap being lifted, with different guidelines for $30K and $50K: nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_f…