TENANTS IN NORTHERN MANHATTAN FIGHT BACK!
At 78 Thayer Street in upper Manhattan, the landlord is warehousing apartments while failing to make needed repairs. Tenant activists joined Vajra Kilgour for a discussion of what they've been through and their organizing and legal strategies.
Housing Notebook is a production of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, New York's oldest citywide tenant union.
Met Council hotline: 212-979-0611, M & W 1:30-8 PM, Tu 5:30-8 PM, F 1:30-5 PM; www.metcouncilonhousing.org, thetenant.org; info@metcouncilonhousing.org; Facebook & Instagram: search for Met Council on Housing; email: housingnotebook@wbai.org – no housing problems please! Twitter: @met_council, @scottmsommer, @wbai.org; wbai.org – live stream, find archive, join radio station there or call 212-209-2950 – become a WBAI buddy in the name of Housing Notebook!
Tenants rights training Thursday, September 29, 6:30pm - 8pm; to RSVP go to: bit.ly/kyr929.
In-person Tenants Rights Fall Clinic: Thursday, October 20, 5:30-8pm, at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden in the gazebo, East 9th St & Ave C in Manhattan - arrive by 5:30! Rain date: Saturday, October 22, noon-3pm. Open environment; trained volunteers, not lawyers - tenants helping tenants.
Election day is 11/8. Until 10/14 register in person or if by mail, postmark by then (must be received by 10/19). Or go to vote.nyc to register online with state ID, or call 866-VOTENYC. Outside of NYC, go to elections.ny.gov, or call 800-367-8683.
New rent guidelines set by the Rent Guidelines Board, for leases beginning between 10/1/22 & 9/30/23: for apartments & lofts 3.25% for a 1-year lease, 5% for a 2-year lease; no increase for SROs, rooming houses, & hotels. Nassau county: 2% for 1 year, 3.5% for 2 years. Westchester County: 2% for 1 year, 3% for 2 years. Rockland County: 0.5% for 1 year, 0.75% for 2 years.
Heat & hot water: 10/1 – 5/31: From 6 am to 10 pm: If the outside temperature falls below 55 degrees, the inside temperature must be at least 68 degrees everywhere in your apartment. From 10 pm to 6 am in NYC: the inside temperature must be at least 62 degrees everywhere in your apartment regardless of the outside temperature. Hot water at a minimum 120 degrees at the tap must be provided 24 hours a day, year round. Call 311 to report lack of heat &/or hot water; outside NYC call dept. of health or buildings. Call hotline (212-979-0611) for help with organizing, get a heat sheet at metcouncilonhousing.org (bit.ly/heathotwater).