Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Rent freeze?
"For the first time in its 46-year history, the Rent Guidelines Board may enact a rent freeze for stabilized apartments." (Curbed, The Daily News)
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Please, please, please let this happen. I am struggling to stay in the city, and a rent freeze would at least help my situation from getting worse. I can't be the only one!
ReplyDeleteDang, and I just signed a two year lease renewal. Rent goes up next month.
ReplyDeleteHow did NYC survive without rent stabilized apts? keeping most apts permanently off the market is great as long as you have one - if you need a rent freeze to survive maybe you should move or get a roommate etc love how entitled rent stabilized folks feel
ReplyDeleteI hate how entitled you feel to kick people out and destroy communities. Classic colonialist attitude repeating itself over and over through history.
DeleteA culmination of sorts of the ugliest aspects of "unjust taking" by the state, bad enough that the state interposes its will between private consenting parties based on a 70 year old "emergency temporary measure" meant to ensure housing for shipyard workers in the buildup towards the great naval battles of World War II, but only Comrade Wilhelm would push it to the point of spitting in the face of the Capitalist Pigs who dare to engage in hateful private enterprise rather than working for de gubment.
ReplyDeleteSeriously? Now we have you, moron at 9:23 PM, spewing vile racist shit? "de gubment" - who the hell do you think you are, Stepin Fetchit? You are disgusting!
ReplyDeleteWill a rent freeze cause rents to go up in market rate apartments?
ReplyDeleteWould taxing the owners of all apartments, even those who reside in them for fewer than 180 days per year (or whatever that cut-off is), open up the number of available apartment units in the city, and drive down market rents to a more realistic level?
ReplyDelete"...drive down market rents to a more realistic level?"
ReplyDeleteIf those apartments were not on a island, this might be possible, but it's Manhattan island, so in a word, NO!
Guess that depends on your definition of realistic is - it since lots of these apts can apparently be inherited don't worry it will never happen either you have one of these or you can move to cleveland or something - or Philly - this town has no place for the middle class worker gotta be rich or scam your way into one of these protected apts of course you can never move buy hey once you get in its for life screw everybody else
ReplyDeletePresumptuous much, Anon. 8:29? Many of us in rent-stabilized apartments have been here since the bad old days. My roommate is 81; where do you want him to go so you can have this apartment?
ReplyDeleteThe $2000 cap is doing a lot to take stabilized apartments off the market, and I personally don't see this trend doing anything toward making the existing housing stock more affordable.
What are people going to say when their tactic of ending rent control and stabilization doesn't work to net them an apartment they can afford? What are they going to bitch about then?
Yes to rent stabilization and a freeze, hey "the help" has to live somewhere. The gal that gets your coffee, the clerk that rigs you up can not pay $6,000 a month silly spawn of yuppie.
ReplyDeleteI grew up here, suffering the humiliations of aggressive gentrification. This might give me a chance to stay in my hometown, near my family and friends (what remain).
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