Housing Notebook

Mon, Jul 14, 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 organizing and organizing around a rent freeze! -

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There is so much going on in the world that you cant keep up with it all. We'll have updates for you with Met Council's Executive Director, Darius Khalil Gordon. And time for your calls!

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

Guests:

Darius Khalil Gordon, Executive Director, Metropolitan 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.
To find a cooling center near you, go to finder.nyc.gov/coolingcenters/
New rent guidelines - for leases starting after 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.

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