Thursday, Oct. 12 rally: Urge Gov. to Sign Frankensteining Bill!

Join our Coalition and Housing Justice for All

this Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 at Noon

at 633 Third Ave.  (40th/41st Streets)

at a 

RALLY TO URGE GOV. :

 SIGN OUR BILLS !

 

and

CALL or EMAIL GOV. HOCHUL

Urge her to sign S.2980/A.6216 to effectively end Frankensteining by keeping combined apartments affordable - 

and to sign 3 other tenant bills as well. 

Watch the video and read the Memo we're delivering to the Governor.

* Four Bills passed by the State Legislature await Gov. Hochul's action: 

• S2980/A6216 (AM Linda Rosenthal/Sen. Brian Kavanagh) would keep rents low where landlords combine a rent stabilized unit with any other space. That would deter them from holding rent stabilized apartments empty just in order to Frankenstein them and charge high prices.  That bill would also make it easier for family members to "succeed" (take over the lease in their own name), and would clarify the definition of landlord fraud. 

• A4047 (AM Dinowitz/Sen. Kavanagh), clarifies how to calculate rents after the landlord has overcharged a tenant.

• A6843 (AM Clark/Sen. Hinchley) would require landlords to answer housing vacancy surveys - a first step before a municipality decides whether to opt into rent stabilization.

• A3484 (AM Gallagher/Sen. Hoylman-Sigal) says that landlords (including oligarchs, money launderers, tax cheats, wage thieves, and slumlords) can't hide behind a Limited Liability Corporation ("SLLC"). That way, tenants will know who actually owns their building, and who is responsible for repairs.