Housing Notebook

• Topics of general interest to tenants, especially the RGB's surprise meeting to reconsider proposed rent hikes, and a recording from the Rent Freeze Rally held on Thursday, May 15, at the Riverside Church -

NYC RENT GUIDELINES BOARD GUESSES AGAIN

In an unprecented move, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board will meet Tuesday, May 27, at 9:30 am to reconsider its preliminary vote for proposed rent hikes this year, now set at 1.75% to 4.75% on one-year leases, and 4.75% to 7.75% on two-year leases. Vajra Kilgour let listeners know where to go to make their voices heard. Plus a recording from the Rent Freeze Rally that was held the week before last at the Riverside Church.

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

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• 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. 

• Training for Met Council volunteers will be Thursday, May 29, 6-8 pm, at the Met Council office, 470 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn. For all Met Council events, including those mentioned on air, find the calendar here. 

• Rent Guidelines Board - New vote on proposed guidelines: Tuesday, May 27, 9:30 am, at Spector Hall, 22 Reade Street in Manhattan. Public hearings with public testimony will be: June 5, 5–8 pm, Jamaica Performing Arts Center Auditorium, 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens; June 9, 5–8 pm, The Theater at NYC College of Technology, 275 Jay Street, Brooklyn; 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. Final vote: June 30 - stay tuned! For more information about Rent Guidelines Board meetings, and information about how to sign up to speak at public meetings, click here.

• For more information about the bill being introduced in the state legislature to change the way rent guiidelines boards are constituted, click here.

• For The City - Gothamist quiz showing where candidates stand, click here.

• Heat & hot water: Heat law is in effect starting October 1 and continuing until May 31: from 6am to 10pm, when the outside temperature is below 55, the temperature everywhere in your apartment must be at least 68 degrees; from 10pm to 6am, the temperature everywhere in your apartment must be at least 62 degrees, regardless of the outside temperature. Hot water at a minimum 120 degrees at the tap must be provided 24 hours a day, year round. For more information and to get a heat sheet, click here.