Housing Notebook

Mon, Aug 22, 2022 20:00 PM

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Hosts: Scott Sommer and Vajra Kilgour

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News of general interest to tenants, plus guests discussing Communty Land Trusts & a Bronx tenant association that organized to buy their building. -

Synopsis:

TENANT CONTROL - PRESERVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Legislation has been introduced in Albany to give tenants the first right of refusal to purchase their buildings in certain circumstances. Scott Sommer talks with Claudia Waterton, a Bronx tenant association president from a building tenants have been able to buy, and Elise Goldin, CLT (Community Land Trust) Campaign Organizer at the New Economy Project, about how this legislation could work and what it would do to permanently preserve affordable housing.

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

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Claudia Waterton, Bronx tenant association president; Elise Goldin, CLT (Community Land Trust) Campaign Organizer, New Economy Project -

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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; 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; 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!
Outdoor Tenants Rights Summer Clinic: Thursday, August 25, 5:30-8pm, at the gazebo at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden in the East Village (East 9th Street and Avenue C), rain date: Saturday, August 27, noon-3pm. For more information, click here.
Polls open Tuesday, August 23 6am-9pm. For voter information for NYC, click here or call 866-868-3692; for the rest of NY State click here or call 800-367-8683
For more information about the New Economy Project, click here or check Housing Justice for All.
New rent guidelines set by the Rent Guidelines Board, for leases beginning between 10/1/22 & 9/30/23: for apartments & lofts 3.25% for a 1-year lease, 5% for a 2-year lease; no increase for SROs, rooming houses, & hotels. Nassau county: 2% for 1 year, 3.5% for 2 years. Westchester County: 2% for 1 year, 3% for 2 years. Rockland County: 0.5% for 1 year, 0.75 for 2 years.

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