“Landlords are forcing people to leave their homes for no reason other than the lease is up,” says tenant rights advocate Cea Weaver. “This legislation gives tenants a right to remain in their homes unless landlords have a good reason to force them out.”
Tenants rallied in the Bronx for "good cause" legislationThe heads of New York’s largest labor unions are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul and state leaders to support legislation that would offer protections to more than 1 million renters by limiting landlords’ abilities to raise rent and evict tenants without “good cause.”
Under the legislation, landlords would still be permitted to evict a tenant but only for specific reasons known as "good cause." Examples of "good cause" include failure to pay rent, causing a nuisance, or if the landlord wants to take back the apartment to use it themselves. The bill would also allow tenants to challenge annual rent increases that are over 3%, or in years when inflation is high, over 150% of the consumer price index, whichever is higher.
Jim Urso, a spokesperson for Hochul, said the governor will work with the legislature and advocates to keep tenants in their homes.The 14 unions include 1199SEIU, which represents healthcare workers, and the New York State Nurses Association. Other signatories represented musicians, taxi drivers, and auto workers.
Officials from the Real Estate Board of New York, the industry’s main lobbying arm, and Community Housing Improvement Program, a group made up of about 4,000 owners of mostly rent-stabilized units, declined to comment. They referred a request for comment to Ross M. Wallenstein, spokesperson for Homeowners for an Affordable New York.
Michelle Ned, a delegate of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, which represents more than 230,000 workers in the state, said she’s witnessed the effects of a lack of protections for renters firsthand. When she moved into her two-bedroom apartment in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, 28 years ago, her rent-stabilized unit went for $900 a month. Today it’s $2,000 a month.
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