Heartbreaking😢

And this is always how the state and city have handled housing insecure students - do nothing for them and then complain to the teachers about why they’re not learning.

It’s past time for #CoverageForAll

These feels very on brand for Governor Kathy Hochul - penalize theft, EXCEPT when it’s wage theft.

Putting our faith in the legislature yet again.

“While it may seem denying undocumented New Yorkers health coverage would save the state money, in reality, it’s exactly the opposite.”

AM NYS Assembly Member Amy Paulin + Theo Oshiro 🦋 write on the MILLIONS in savings to our state if Albany legislators pass #Coverage4All . empirereportnewyork.com/new-york-state…

Who are these people that can afford “affordable housing”? I need to know their salary.

Thinking about how they tried to bury this deeply offensive housing “deal” in the Friday evening news, thinking renters wouldn’t pay attention.

Our eyes are wide open to whose side you’re on, Governor Kathy Hochul.

We’re organized and organizing, and we won’t accept this! #GoodCause

Everyone deserves stable and affordable housing.

This deal won’t protect tenants from evictions or rent hikes. We must do better to address the housing crisis in New York.

This deal will leave too many tenants without vital protections against evictions and rent hikes.

We need a housing package that addresses the housing crisis and doesn’t leave families behind.

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Center for Community Alternatives stands in solidarity w Housing Justice For All, the unhoused & millions of tenants across NY calling for a fair & just housing package. Any deal that guts #GoodCause , rolls back rent stabilization & omits HAVP is unacceptable. Housing = safety.

This, also: Black mothers are at the *highest risk* of eviction, per advocates + the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (link abajo).

The time to pass Good Cause (that *isn't* watered down) + #HAVP (both houses continue to uplift in the budget) was years ago.

That's unconscionable

“We’re hearing that Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed a version of #GoodCause that would be the worst [and weakest] Good Cause law in the country and that her version will protect almost no tenants and have huge loopholes,” 

- Ellen Davidson, LAS. law.com/newyorklawjour…

NY's housing crisis calls for responsible policies that keep NYers in their homes. Tenant protections are necessary to uphold basic rights of tenants and ensuring stability in our communities statewide.

It's about putting people first to keep their lives from being upended.

It’s become abundantly clear in this year’s housing negotiations that the real estate industry is unwilling to make a deal in which tenants are truly protected; that they'll continue to use their seat at the table to weaken existing laws and undermine new protections.

Raising the cap on Individual Apartment Improvements will only serve to put a target on the backs of rent-stabilized tenants across our city.

We need to strengthen tenant protections across the board, not create new loopholes for landlords to price out New Yorkers.

We will not be harming one group of tenants in order to help another.

We will not say yes to jacking up rents for rent stabilized tenants via IAIs in order to protect rents for other tenants via Good Cause.

Housing is a human right, despite what the real estate lobby proclaims.

In solidarity with tenants, we reject any proposals to weaken tenant protections through changes to IAIs. Our focus must remain on moving forwarding, not backward, by passing statewide Good Cause Eviction laws to ensure that every New Yorker has a safe, affordable place to call…

In the fight for housing justice, rolling back protections against unjust rent increases is a step in the wrong direction. I stand w/ tenants in calling for the passage of strong, statewide Good Cause Eviction & for resisting changes to IAIs that would displace hardworking NYers.

Strengthening tenant protections requires that we build on the success of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act by passing Good Cause eviction. Significantly increasing IAI limits, resulting in high rent increases on rent-stabilized units, would be an unacceptable step

Undoing the 2019 rent regulation reforms would inevitably lead to increased housing costs, evictions, tenant harassment, and homelessness. We are in office to create more affordable housing and protect families and communities, not the opposite.