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Events: Hearing - Friday, May 21st on Mitchell-Lamas
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The Mitchell-Lama Subcommittee of the NYS Assembly's Housing Committee held a hearing on Friday, May 21, 2010. Housing Committee Chair Vito Lopez and Mitchell-Lama Subcommittee Chair Linda Rosenthal presided. Assembly members Alec Brook-Krasny, Hakeem Jeffries, and Brian Kavanaugh were present.
At the hearing, Chairman Vito Lopez said he assumed that A.9230 would pass the Assembly, so now tenants must work to get it passed in the State Senate. But let's take nothing for granted!
Click here to read the testimonies of
- Tom Waters, Community Service Society
- Lonene Crawford, Tenant of UPACA7 in East Harlem andExecutive Board VP North of
National Alliance of HUD Tenants;
Tenant Member of Mitchell Lama Resident Coalition
- Judy Montanez, Co-Chairperson of Castleton Park Tenants Association – Staten Island and Executive Board Member of
Mitchell Lama Resident Coalition;
National Alliance of HUD Tenants
NY City-Wide Protection, Incentives, Enforcement (PIE) Campaign Coalition
- Sue Susman, president of the Central Park Gardens Tenants' Association and member of the Mitchell-Lama P.I.E. Campaign
- Jeanne Poindexter, East Midtown Plaza and Cooperators United for Mitchell-Lama (CU4ML)
- Seth Miller, Dobkins, Collins & Miller, attorney for Independence Plaza North Tenants Association, and
- Celeste Zervas, president, Court Plaza Tenants Association.
Click on "read more" below for more details on the bill we need.
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Events: Hearing - NYS Assembly Housing Comm. on Affordable Housing
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The NYS Assembly's Housing Committee is holding a hearing on affordable housing on - Monday, Dec. 14, 2009
- beginning at Noon
- Room 1923, 250 Broadway, New York, New York.
The Committee will take testimony on:
1. Which affordable housing programs have been most effective and why
2. What issues face those programs
3. Alternatives to producing / retaining such housing at lower costs
4. Streamlining administration for these developments
5. Connections between drops in home values and housing programs, and
6. Change in demand for affordable housing.
Tenant advocates should prepare to testify about -
Mitchell-Lamas and the "stabilization for all" bill, S.3326-A
/A 9230)
rent stabilization (including the bills passed by the Assembly this
term such as repealing vacancy decontrol, ending MCI payments once the
improvement's cost is covered, etc.
If you'd like to testify, go to
http://assembly.state.ny.us/comm/Housing/20091125/, fill out the form at the bottom, and e-mail or fax it to Zach Shapiro at the address given there.
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Events: Kick-Off to ''Lobby in the Neighborhood''
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The Mitchell-Lama P.I.E. Campaign and the Mitchell-Lama Residents Coalition are hosting a strategy session to begin a lobbying campaign.
- Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
- 6 PM refreshments; 6:45 PM meeting
- at the Community Service Society, 105 E. 22nd St. at Park Avenue.
Click on "read more" for specifics, and come hear State Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, chair of the Mitchell-Lama Subcommittee of the Assembly's Housing Committee.
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Events: Tenants & Neighbors Annual Conference
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Tenants & Neighbors is having its annual meeting with lots of workshops on
- the J 51 decision
- the rent laws campaign
- predatory equity
and more. Picture the Homeless and the New York City AIDS Housing network will also give presentations about their work.
Click here for a flyer in English.
Click here for a flyer in Spanish.
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Events: Urban America tenants rally on Sat. Sept. 26
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Tenants in Urban America-owned buildings are rallying in support of affordable housing and Mitchell-Lama
on - Saturday, September 26th
- Noon to 4 PM
- 135th Street between Broadway & Riverside Drive
Click here for a flyer in English and in Spanish.
Click on "read more" below for details.
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Events: Tenants head to Albany Sept. 10
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The NY State Senate passed no tenant bills when it reconvened on September 10th.
The Real Rent Reform Campaign and Housing Here & Now (R3/HHN) sent 150 tenants to Albany - but no significant tenant bill was passed.
Click on "read more" below for more details about what happened and what needs to happen.
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Events: Submetering Summit
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Come to a
Summit on Residential Electric Submetering
Is Submetering in Your Future? Already Submetered?
Learn What Your Need to Know From the Experts
- Saturday, May 16, 2009
- NYU Medical Center
Founders Auditorium A, Lower Level
550 First Avenue (at 31st St)
New York, NY 10016
FREE
Click here to register on line. Click on "read more" below for details.
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Events: Tuesday, May 12 - Tenant Lobby Day in Albany
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Join the Real Rent Reform Campaign,Housing Here & Now,
the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, and the Working Families Party for a Mass Tenant Lobby Day in Albany
- Tuesday, May 12
- Buses will be leaving from:
- Manhattan: Tenants & Neighbors Office at 236 West 27th St.
- Bronx: 196th St. and the Grand Concourse
- Queens: 92-10 Jackson Ave, and making a stop in Bushwick at 301 Grove St.
- Brooklyn: 2 buses! 2-4 Nevins St. at the ACORN office and
Flatbush and DeKalb Ave.
Reserve a seat by contacting Jon Furlong at Housing Here & now.
Click on "read more" below for WHY you should be on that bus! w.org
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Events: NYS Assembly Hearings April 23, 2009
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The Mitchell-Lama Subcommittee of NYS Assembly's Housing Committee will be holding a hearing
- Thursday, April 23rd
- 11:30 AM - 5:30 PM (or later)
- 250 Broadway, 19th Floor, Room 1923
on proposed laws.
Tenants must persuade Chairman Vito Lopez that we need - S.3326, the Stewart-Cousins bill that puts all developments leaving Mitchell-Lama and Section 8 projects into rent stabilization regardless of when they were built, without "unique or peculiar circumstances" increases, and applies retroactively to buildings already removed from the programs,
and - S. 2171/A.6706, the Moratorium on Mitchell-Lama Buyouts.
To testify, contact Anthony Keravat at the State's Housing Committee.
Click on "read more" below for the P.I.E. Campaign's position on the moratorium bill.
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