Housing Notebook

Mon, Jun 9, 2025 20:00 PM

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Hosts: Scott Sommer and Vajra Kilgour

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Topics of general interest to tenants, with coverage of the Rent Guidelines Board hearing in Brooklyn -

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RENT GUIDELINES BOARD HEARING - LIVE UPDATE

Live updates from the Brooklyn Rent Guidelines Board hearing from Met Council's Saba Amare and tenants in attendance. With listener call-ins.

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

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Saba Amare, Outreach Coordinador/Coordinadora de alcance at Met Council on Housing -

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Info / Links:

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 information about all Met Council events, click here.
For information about MCIs, and especially how they (don't) affect people with SCRIE and DRIE, click here for a pdf - scroll down to page 9 for SCRIE and DRIE information.
For information about voting, go to vote.nyc or call 1-866-Vote-NYC (1-866-868-3692). To see The City - Gothamist quiz showing how candidates' responses match with yours, click here.
Rent Guidelines Board - Public hearings with public testimony will be: June 12, 5–8 pm, Main Theatre of Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse, the Bronx; June 17, 5–8 pm, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway @ 95th Street in Manhattan; June 27, 10 am – 12:00 noon, NYC Department of Health,125 Worth St, 2nd Floor Auditorium, Manhattan. Final vote: June 30, 7 pm (doors will open at 6 pm), El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Ave at 104th St, Manhattan. For more information about Rent Guidelines Board meetings, and information about how to sign up to speak at public meetings, click here.

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