Housing Notebook

Mon, Jun 28, 2021 20:00 PM

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Hosts: Scott Sommer and Vajra Kilgour

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Housing: the Rent Guidelines Board's new guidelines. -

Synopsis: Pandemic? What pandemic? The rent is going up!

The NYC Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) voted last week to raise rents in the midst of the ongoing pandemic and continued economic hardship for millions. Scott Sommer was joined by RGB Tenant Member Leah Goodridge to find out what happened.

Housing Notebook is produced by the Metropolitan Council on Housing, New York's oldest tenant union.

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Leah Goodridge, Managing Attorney for Housing Policy in Mobilizatiobn for Justice's Housing practice & a tenant member of the Rent Guidelines Board -

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Met Council hotline: 212-979-0611, M & W 1:30-8 PM, Tu 5:30-8 PM, F 1:30-5 PM (no walk-in clinics during pandemic); www.metcouncilonhousing.org, thetenant.org; info@metcouncilonhousing.org; Facebook & Instagram: search for Met Council on Housing; email: housingnotebook@wbai.org – no housing problems please! Twitter: @met_council, @scottmsommer; wbai.org – live stream, find archive, join radio station there or call 212-209-2950 – become a WBAI buddy in the name of Housing Notebook! @wbai
Rent guidelines: For leases beginning between 10/1/20 & 9/30/21: 0% for a 1-year lease, 0% for 1st year of 2-year lease, 1% for 2nd year of 2-year lease in apartments & lofts, no increase for SROs, rooming houses, & hotels; Westchester, Nassau, Rockland rent freeze!
New rent guidelines for leases beginning between 10/1/21 & 9/30/22: for apartments & lofts: for a 1-year lease, 0% in the first 6 months & 1.5% in the following 6 months; for a 2-year lease, 2.5%. No increase for SROs, rooming houses, & hotels. Rockland County: 0.5% for a 1-year lease, 0.75% for a 2-year lease. Westchester County: 0.5% for a 1-year lease, 1% for a 2-year lease.

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