The NY
Times article linked below misses one important point: rents are high in
part because even just before the pandemic, landlords were refusing to
rent out over 70,000 vacant rent stabilized apartments. That is still the case - and probably the number is even higher.
Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal has a great state bill to discourage warehousing, and Council Member Gale Brewer has
agreed to sponsor a city bill to figure out the number of such vacant
units and ensure the safety of tenants who live near them (some of the
empty apartments become fire hazards or harbor vermin, mold, and
worse). Let Linda Rosenthal and Gale Brewer and your other
representatives know we're grateful and we need those laws NOW!
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