Rent Guidelines Board

The Rent Guidelines Board will meet this evening to determine the Rent Guidelines for 1 and 2 year rents, in the City.

As a housing advocate fighting for affordable housing and helping displaced tenants through the gentrification process that's effecting various neighborhoods like Williamsburg/Greenpoint, in Brooklyn and many other neighborhoods,in the city, we must impact the RGB.

As spokes person for UNO (United Neighbors Organization),let me begin by making 2 points. First the city is in an affordable housing crunch losing 71,000 rent stabilize apartments, in the last thirteen years, to vacancy decontrol, and 40,000 due to coop condo conversion. In the last sixteen years over 40,300 of the cities subsidized apartments were lost. 26,000 of which were buy outs, in the cities Mitchell-Lama housing. If it wasn't for the 42 city council members override, of the Major's section 8 veto, more affordable housing units would never have been realized.

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