The Real Rent Reform Campaign will have free buses to Albany for Tenant Lobby Day on

• Wednesday, May 22, 2013

• Early (R3 will be doing lobby training up in Albany that day) - and coming back around 7:30 PM

• Monday, Feb. 25, 2013
  
• 6:30 PM
  
• 113 East 13th St. (between 3rd and 4th Avenues in Manhattan)
  Trains 456LNRQ to 14th Street-Union Sq.

In his State of the State address for 2013, Governor Cuomo addressed the need for affordable housing.

In particular, he proposes to

• spend $1 billion to build or preserve 14,000 units of affordable housing (NYC is 356,000 units short);

• move 44 buildings (those that used to be in the "UDC" program?) Mitchell-Lama portfolio from Empire State Development to NYS HCR for additional financing;

• promote HCR's "Tenant Protection Unit" (although it remains underfunded, and lacks necessary regulations)

About 50 tenants rallied for Rent Law Enforcement on Augbust 28.

In 2011, the state legislature passed some good laws for tenants - but they have never been enforced. HCR (formerly DHCR) is now proposing regulations that barely scratch the surface.

Click here for a

Join the Real Rent Reform at the Rent Guidelines Board's FINAL VOTE this

• Thursday, June 21, 2012

• 5:30 PM (but come early to get through security!))

• Cooper Union's Great Hall (the basement)
  7 E. 7th St. at 3rd Ave.

With tenants suffering the recession's joblessness, and rents super-high because of the RGB's overestimates of costs in previous years, now is the time to freeze the rents!

Click here for a flyer.

Come express your needs as a tenant at the

Click here for a flyer in English.

Every June, the Rent Guidelines Board sets what rent increases will be for leases renewed any time from October 1 through the following September 30th. There are 4 hearings left this year before the final vote.

PUBLIC HEARING (no testimony) :
Thurs., May 31 at 9:30 AM at
the Landmarks Preservation Commission
Conference Room, Municipal Building
1 Centre St, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10007

TESTIFY!*
Wed., June 13 at 10:00 AM at
Repertory Theatre of Hostos
Community College/CUNY
450 Grand Concourse< br> Bronx, NY 10451

Monday, June 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM at
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, at corner of 3rd Ave.
(basement)
New York, NY 10003

FINAL VOTE (no testimony)
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 5:30 PM
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street at corner of 3rd Ave.
(basement)
New York, NY 10003

Brooklyn & Queens Tenants are invited to a

on

• Wed., May 23, 2012
• at 6 PM
• at the Lafayette Presbyterian Church
  85 S. Oxford St.

on Tenants Rights and Housing Affordability

This May 1st, the Real Rent Reform Campaign is joining Occupy Wall Street for a

Tenants General Assembly

outside the RENT GUIDELINES BOARD's preliminary vote on rent increases for October 2012 through September 2013.

• Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

• 5 PM

• Outside Cooper Union's Great Hall
  7 East 7th St. (at 3rd Ave.) in Manhattan.

• Monday, April 16, 2012

• at City Hall (press conference starts at 11 AM, so be there by 10:45 to get through security!)