Housing Notebook

Mon, Dec 29, 2025 20:00 PM

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Hosts: Scott Sommer and Vajra Kilgour

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Topics of general interest to tenants, plus a postmortem of the Adams years, looking forward to the Mamdani administration -

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IT'S A WRAP! BUH-BYE ERIC, HELLO ZOHRAN!

The year is closing out and Scott and Vajra shared their thoughts as we exit the Adams era and start the Mamdani years. And what a year 2025 has been! With listener call-ins.

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

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Met Council hotline: normally 212-979-0611, M & W 1:30-8 PM, F 1:30-5 PM, on hiatus during year-end holidays; 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 or make a one-time donation – be sure to scroll down to choose Housing Notebook as the show you want to support! Or call 833-922-4692 - leave a message with your phone number if no one picks up, and they'll call you back. Mail a check made out to WBAI-Pacifica to WBAI Radio, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY 11217.
For all Met Council events, including trainings for hotline volunteers, workshops, and meetings about basic rights, check the calendar here.
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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 - find more detailed info 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. For more information about developments in Kingston and Poughkeepsie, contact For the Many: email info@forthemany.org or call 845-481-0703.

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