Housing Notebook

Mon, Aug 11, 2025 20:00 PM

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Hosts: Scott Sommer and Vajra Kilgour

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Topics of general interest to tenants, especially the upcoming mayoral election and the rise of fascism. -

Synopsis:

TRUMP TARGETS HOMELESS IN DC

President Trump, while cutting housing assistance and programs combating homelessness, uses the homeless crisis and the (declining) crime rate in Washington, DC to take over law enforcment in the District and send the homeless "FAR from the Capital." Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo is trying to make an issue of rent stabilization. Scott Sommer discussed that and more. 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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Darius Khalil Gordon, Executive Director, Met Council on Housing -

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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.
No walk-in clinics during the summer. For Met Council events, including trainings for hotline volunteers and meetings about basic rights, check the calendar here. Save the date for Met Council on Housing general assembly: September 13.
New rent guidelines - for leases starting 10/1/25 in New York City: for apartments and lofts, 3 percent for a 1-year lease, 4 1/2 percent for a 2-year lease; class A & B hotels, lodging houses, rooming houses, & SROs: 0 percent - for more detailed info, click here. Poughkeepsie still in litigation; Kingston: 0 and 0; Westchester 2% for 1 year, 3% for 2 years; Rockland County 5% for 1 year, 6% for 2 years; Nassau 2% for one year, 3% for 2 years.

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