Rent Control

US Supreme Court Won't Hear NYC Rent Control Case

AP | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal that seeks to end rent stabilization laws in New York City. The high court on Monday refused to ...

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Will The Supreme Court End Rent Control?

Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Rent Stabilization, New York Rent Control, US Supreme Court, Rent Regulation, Video, Fifth Amendment, New York Real Estate, Rent Control, Harmon-v-Kimmel, NY Real Estate, New York News

Insanely jealous of the West Village man paying $331.76 a month for a beautiful four-bedroom apartment? You might find some solace in a new lawsuit. F...

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$331/Month Village Apartment Inspires Jealousy Across City

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: West Village, Rent-Control, NY Real Estate, Jealousy, New York Real Estate, Cherry Lane Theater, New York News

Janio Marrero is a very lucky man. As facilities manager and technical director at the Cherry Lane Theater, Mr. Marrero can rent a lovely apartment ab...

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NYC Landlord To Supreme Court: The Rent Is Too Damn Low

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Rent Stabilization, Supreme Court, Manhattan Rent, New York City Rent, Antonin Scalia, United States Supreme Court, Rent Control, Libertarian, Rent Stabilized, New York City, Upper West Side, Video, Harmon v. Kimmel, Rent Stabilized Apartments, Rent Stabilization Law, Elena Kagan, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A New York City landlord has taken his fight against the city's rent control laws up to the Supreme Court, where at least one justice ap...

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You Can't Evict Me Because... I've Moved!

AP | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Rent Control, Manhattan Rent, NY Real Estate, Rent, Faye Dunaway, New York News

NEW YORK — Faye Dunaway denies she's been evicted from her New York City apartment. The Oscar-winning actress tells The New York Times ( ) she ...

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Lawsuit May Cost Faye Dunaway Her $1,048 Apartment

Yahoo! News | AP – 50 Mins Ago | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: New York Rent Control, Rent Control, Faye Dunaway, NY Real Estate, Ny News, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City landlord is suing Faye Dunaway, claiming the actress' rent-stabilized apartment is not her primary residence. The...

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Tenants' Rights Are Human Rights: A Response to Critics' Misrepresentation of Rent Regulation

Jumaane D. Williams | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Lower-Income-Neighborhoods, Tenants Rights, Rent Regulation, Rent Control, NY Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Landlords, NY Rent Control, Affordable Housing, New York News

It should be considered a right to afford to live in the city where you work. There are 2.5 million New Yorkers in danger of losing this ability if the State Senate allows the state's rent regulation laws to lapse.

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Rent Regulation Is Not Affordable Housing

Carol Kellermann | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Rent Regulation, New York State Assembly, Citizens Budget Commission, Affordable Housing, Rent Control, NY Real Estate, NY Rent Control, New York News

Advocates for extending rent regulation claim that the laws provide "affordable housing." But the rent regulation system provides inadequate relief to the neediest renters within the system.

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How Do Wrong Economic Ideas Become Conventional Wisdom?

Peter Dreier | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: New York Times Book Review, Tea Party, Labor Unions, Fracis Fukuyama, John Boehner, Darrell Issa, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Friedrich Hayek, Rent Control, Glenn Beck, Farm Subsidies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Books News

If conservatives don't like labor unions, they are entitled to their opinions. But when they attack unions by arguing that they actually hurt working people, they don't have the facts on their side. They are crying wolf.

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Large, Beautiful West Village Apartment? $127 Per Month

Christopher Mathias | Posted 06.19.2011

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Perhaps for every woman on the Upper West Side paying way too much for a 90 square foot apartment, there's someone in the West Village paying next to ...

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Rent Control Preserves Affordabilty

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizen's Budget Commission, Rent Control, Rent Regulation, Homelessness, Governor Paterson, New York City, Affordable Housing, New York News

When Governor Paterson proposed changes to the city's rent regulation laws, criticism poured in from both tenants' groups and landlords.

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Ross Haberman, Hedge Fund Manager, Sues To Keep $380/Month Rent At His Park Avenue Apartment

Sabrina Jaszi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hedge Fund Managers, Hedge Funds, Rent Control, New York Apartments, New York Apartment Prices, Park Avenue, New York News

A monetarily secure hedge fund manager is suing to keep his rent on Park Avenue rock bottom. Though Ross Haberman could afford the increase (which cou...

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Landlords With Tax-Breaks Can't Charge Luxury Rates: Court Ruling

nydailynews.com | Larry Mcshane | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a ruling that could affect 350,000 city tenants, the state's top court said Thursday that landlords getting tax breaks can't charge luxury rates fo...

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Invictus Kicks Off New Campaign for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Assembly, Larry Gross, Morgan Freeman, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt, Invictus, Rent Control, Bonnie Abaunza, Nobel Peace Prize, Matt Damon, Nobel Laureate, Desmond Tutu, Mary Wald, Los Angeles, Pacific Design Center, Education, Hunger, Human Rights, Coalition for Economic Survival, West Hollywood, Tiger Woods, Freedom, Udhr, TheCommunity.Com, Discrimination, Healthcare, Los Angeles News

Los Angeles gets a bad rap. It's assailed for being shallow and rarely acknowledged for its good heart. But Los Angeles has a huge heart - at the center of which is pulsating non-stop activism.

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Most Expensive Real Estate Deal In US History Poised To Flop

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tishman Speyer, Tenants Rights, Tishman Speyer Stuyvesant Town, Blackrock Realty, Stuyvesant Town, Rent Control, Real Estate, Blackrock, Peter Cooper Village, New York City, New York News

NEW YORK — It was the most expensive real estate deal in U.S. history. Now it's poised to become one of the biggest flops. At the height of the...

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California Tenants Have No Friends in Governor's Race

Paul Hogarth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tenants Rights, Rent Control, Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor's Race, Jerry Brown, Politics News

Last Friday at 5:00 p.m. (which he's apt to do when releasing bad news), San Francisco Mayor Newsom vetoed three pro-tenant ordinances designed to help renters facing hard times.

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Landlords Lobbying To Raise Stabilized Rents

nytimes.com | MANNY FERNANDEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the board that regulates rents for New York City's rent-stabilized apartments met to vote on increases last year, tenants more than outnumbered l...

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Obama Rejected Illinois Rent Control Ban

Paul Hogarth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anyone who follows Obama's record in the State Senate understands his background -- where his vote against a rent control ban in Illinois was just one example.

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