Housing Notebook

Mon, Apr 27, 2026 20:00 PM

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Hosts: Scott Sommer and Vajra Kilgour

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CASA: BUILDING POWER FOR A BETTER NEW YORK

Tonight we talked with leaders from Community Action for Safe Apartments about their efforts to build a stronger and better New York for all tenants.

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

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Patricia Jewett, Marilyn Mullins from CASA -

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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 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. Or mail a check made out to WBAI-Pacifica to WBAI Radio, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY 11217.
Walk-in clinics: April 28 and May 11 & 25 at CUNY in the Heights, 5030 Broadway, Manhattan - arrive by 6pm; May 5 and 19 at Trinity Commons, 76 Trinity Place, Manhattan - arrive by 6:30pm. For more information, click here. For all other Met Council events, including trainings for hotline volunteers, workshops, court outreach, and meetings about basic rights, check the calendar here. For more information about Rent Guideline Board meetings, click here.
Heat and hot water: from 6am to 10pm, when the outside temperature is below 55 degrees the inside temperature must be 68 degrees; from 10pm to 6am, the inside temperature must be at least 62 degrees. Hot water must be 120 degrees at the tap at all times. For more information, click here.
CASA hotline: 347-941-3281.
Not mentioned on air, but useful: 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. 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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