Housing Notebook

Mon, Aug 30, 2021 20:00 PM

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Hosts: Scott Sommer and Vajra Kilgour

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EVICTION MORATORIUM -- SCOTUS SAYS NO!

The US Supreme Court has sided with landlords and has opened the eviction floodgates as Covid surges around the country. All eyes once again turn to Albany and new Governor Kathy Hochul. Scott Sommer updates where things stand and what you can do, with the Rev. Frank Morales of GOLES and Andrea Shapiro of Met Council on Housing.

Housing Notebook is a production of Met Council on Housing, New York's oldest tenant union.

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Rev. Frank Morales of GOLES and Andrea Shapiro, Program Manager and Member Organizer, Met Council on Housing -

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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
New rent guidelines for leases beginning between 10/1/21 & 9/30/22: in NYC 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. Nassau County: 1% for a 1-year lease, 2% for a 2-year lease. To check NYC guidelines, click here.
For national info about rental assistance, click here.
To call state elected officials, click here.
Event announced: meet at noon on Tuesday, August 31, at 109 W 38th St (offices of the city marshall), march to governor's office at 633 3rd Ave between 40th & 41st St to demand extension of eviction moratorium & a better plan for dealing with the effects of Covid on tenants, & deliver a letter asking that the marshalls & the NYPD refrain from evicting people. To add your name to the letter, click here.

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