The Assembly's Housing Committee reported A9230 out of committee on June 15, 2010.
It has been sent to the Codes Committee, and, we hope, from there to the floor of the Assembly for a vote.

Now that A9230 has passed the Assembly's Housing Committee, we need to get it passed by the whole Assembly. Please write to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to urge that he get the bill passed. Click on "read more" below for details.

State Senator Pedro Espada, head of the Senate's housing committee, is known for having switched to the Republican party with some pals, throwing the Senate into complete gridlock last June. (He switched back, with promises of perks, and is currently facing legal troubles.)

He now has an opponent running against him in the Democratic primary: Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter.

A.9854 passed the State Assembly.

This bill, if passed by the State Senate, will prevent "unique or peculiar circumstances" increases in pre-1974 buildings leaving Mitchell-Lama and going into rent stabilization.

The Real Rent Reform Campaign, Housing Here & Now the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development, and the Working Families Partiy have a list of tenant bills that need passing when the NYS legislature reconvenes - either in a "special session" or in regular end-of-summer meeting.

Click on "read more" below for the legislative program.

The Stewart-Cousins / Pretlow bill, S.3326-A / A.4359-A is being amended by its sponsors

• to add legislative findings and

• so that rent rollbacks in post-1973 buildings that have already left Mitchell-Lama would be as of January 1, 2007 - the same date accepted by the Assembly in the bill to repeal vacancy decontrol.

The Real Rent Reform Campaign, Housing Here & Now, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, and the Working Families Party are putting their joint muscle behind a series of bills including vacancy decontrol, protection for current and former Mitchell-Lamas, and more. .

Click on "read more" below for the full platform.

The Mitchell-Lama P.I.E. Campaign Supports S3326 / A4359-A, Rent Protections for Mitchell-Lama and Section-8.

Although the economic crisis has slowed the rate of buyouts, Mitchell-Lama housing remains at risk as long as the law permits landlords to convert buildings to market-rate.

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The state's Division of Housing & Community Renewal (DHCR) has proposed a wholesale revision of many of its regulations concerning Mitchell-Lamas.

The P.I.E. Campaign - including the Mitchell-Lama Residents Coalition, Tenants & Neighbors, the Community Service Society, the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, and many individual tenant association representatives - will be reviewing them carefully. If you have comments or suggestions on the new regulations, please contact this website.

Join the P.I.E. Campaign. and help pass S3326, the newly-introduced "Andrea Stewart-Cousins" bill.

Senator Stewart-Cousins has re-introduced the bill to extend rent regulation protections to all Mitchell-Lama and Section-8 buildings that exit their program, including retroactively, and eliminate the “unique or peculiar” loophole.

Both the NYS State Senate and Assembly have now introduced the identical bill to invoke a moratorium on all buyouts from Mitchell-Lama until Jan. 1, 2012, without approval of the supervisory agency (DHCR or HPD).

Click on "read more" below for details.