Housing Notebook

• Topics of general interest to tenants, specifically the struggles of tenants in a gentrifying neighborhood with a a low - income tax credit that protected them & which is now about to expire

SAVE 63 TIFFANY!

The tenants of 63 Tiffany Place in Brooklyn are fighting for their homes against a landlord who is seeking to cash in at the expense of long term tenants and put them on the street. We covered their story.

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

• John Leyva, tenant at 63 Tiffany Place -

• Met Council hotline: 212-979-0611, M & W 1:30-8 PM, F 1:30-5 PM; metcouncilonhousing.org, thetenant.org; info@metcouncilonhousing.org; Facebook & Instagram: search for Met Council on Housing; email: housingnotebook@wbai.org – no housing problems please! X: @met_council, @wbai.org @scottmsommer (also on threads & bluesky); wbai.org – live stream, find archive, join radio station there or go to buddy.wbai.org to become a WBAI buddy – be sure to scroll down to choose Housing Notebook as the show you want to support! Or call 833-922-4692. Mail a check made out to WBAI-Pacifica to WBAI Radio, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY 11217.

• Tuesday walk-in clinics: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, downtown at 6:30 pm at Trinity Commons, 76 Trinity Place in Manhattan; 2nd and 4th Tuesdays uptown at 6 pm at 5030 Broadway. For more information, click here. For all Met Council events, find the calendar here.

• To email John Leyva: save63tiffany@gmail.com

• Get on the bus to Albany Tuesday, March 18 (in support of, among other things, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act; for more info about this, click here): for more information and to RSVP, click here, or check the Met Council calendar. Other events listed at the calendar: Bronx chapter meeting Thursday, March 13, 6:30-8pm, at International Community High School, 345 Brook Ave, Bronx; Renters Get Wise zoom meeting, also March 13, from 6:30-8pm; and Bronx canvass in Saturday March 15, 11am - 2pm, starting at 3rd Ave - 138th St Subway Station, 138th St between 3rd and Alexander Aves, Bronx.

• Not mentioned on air, but useful: Heat & hot water: Heat law is in effect starting October 1 and continuing until May 31: from 6am to 10pm, when the outside temperature is below 55, the temperature everywhere in your apartment must be at least 68 degrees; from 10pm to 6am, the temperature everywhere in your apartment must be at least 62 degrees, regardless of the outside temperature. Hot water at a minimum 120 degrees at the tap must be provided 24 hours a day, year round. Go to portal.311.nyc.gov or call 311 to report lack of hot water, for NYCHA call 718-707-7771; outside NYC call dept. of health or buildings. Call Met Council hotline (212-979-0611) for help with organizing; for more information and to get a heat sheet, click here.

• New rent guidelines taking effect 10/1/24: New York City, 2.75% for a 1-year lease and 5.25% for a 2-year lease; Nassau County 1.5% for 1 year, 2.5% for 2 years; Rockland County 2% 1 year, 3% 2 years; Westchester County 2.5 for 1 year, 3.5 for 2 years; City of Kingston 0 and 0! City of Poughkeepsie TBD. If you're in a rent-stabilized apartment in Kingston or Poughkeepsie, contact For the Many for more information.