📣 PASS RENT STABILIZATION!

CVH Poughkeepsie members are at City Hall right now to call on the Common Council to opt into #RentStabilization NOW!

We need real tenant protections in Poughkeepsie ✊🏿✊🏾

Rents are skyrocketing all around the state, destabilizing neighborhoods and tearing our communities apart.

Poughkeepsie renters spoke loud and clear tonight:

Pass #RentStabilization NOW!

A few weeks ago, we created the New York State Good Cause Eviction law, marking the largest expansion of tenants' rights in NY in 50 years.

Find out if your home is covered by Good Cause protections, and join the fight to extend these rights to others:
housingjusticeforall.org/kyr-good-cause/

I'm getting organized with @housing4allny -- join me! We're going to learn how new good cause protections can bring tenants into our organizing --> RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/know-yo…

NYC tenants: if you are covered by #GoodCause , it is now in effect: you can contest rent hikes, nonrenewals, and no-fault evictions.

Your landlord may tell you it is not in effect until August — this is FALSE! Good Cause in effect, but notice requirements don’t start until Aug.

If you notice Governor Kathy Hochul parroting real estate lobby talking points, it’s no coincidence:

She just hired the chief comms officer of the biggest real estate lobby group in the state.

Housing has been a thorny issue in New York politics. In the past two weeks, state and federal lawmakers said they saw the powerful real estate lobby—like REBNY—behind the housing deal in this year's budget.

twitter.com/EmilyAssembly/…

NEW: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has received at least $1.5 million from real estate industry donors since the start of 2023, according to a Sludge analysis. Advocates say a housing deal in the state budget is stuffed with giveaways to industry.

readsludge.com/2024/04/25/hoc…

Yesterday, I voted no on the ELFA budget bill because - despite its many initiatives - it has failed to deliver any meaningful housing relief to the working people who call New York home, especially in the 51st Assembly District.

Find my statement here: bit.ly/FY2025Statement

STATEMENT: NYC-DSA Denounces Hochul’s Landlord Giveaway Budget
🌹Read the full statement: Socialists.nyc/budget24

added a bit of Julia Salazar's yes vote:

“I believe that every single NYer... deserves the strongest legal rights to stay in their homes. This bill alone, sadly, cannot achieve that. But I will continue to fight until the laws in our state finally do.”

citylimits.org/2024/04/20/nys…

The housing agreement in the FY 2025 budget weakens existing tenant protections while creating a likely unenforceable version of Good Cause Eviction that is full of exceptionally broad carve-outs — effectively returning NY to its 2019 housing market. 🧵

fiscalpolicy.org/fpi-housing-he…

Our statement on Governor Kathy Hochul standing in the way of crucial statewide tenant protections against unfair evictions and unreasonable rent hikes, expanding health insurance for low-income immigrants, and making billionaire New Yorkers pay what they owe in taxes.

“There are millions of tenants in New York State who are struggling under the crushing burden of unaffordable rent. And yet Governor Hochul has decided to cater to the whims of real estate tycoons who see our homes as ATMs, trying to squeeze as much money out of us as possible.”

A budget housing deal will temporarily extend new eviction defenses to certain renters, depending on factors like location, age, ownership and cost. It also allows larger rent increases for stabilized landlords following renovations.

via Emma Whitford: bit.ly/4d2MzsT

hochul and the legislature’s “tenant protections”:

.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…

“Governor Kathy Hochul's #GoodCause Eviction was written by the real estate industry to ensure that they can keep raking in record profits while New Yorkers struggle to afford the rent and stay in their homes' - Cea Weaver

STATEMENT: Governor Kathy Hochul FAILS TO GOVERN

“Hochul’s touting victory on a budget that continues to allow a NYer to die every 90 mins from a preventable overdose & keep people languishing in shelters & on the street. This isn’t leadership, this is a failure of governing” Jawanza James Williams | He, Him| 🌹

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.