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Dec 12, 2024 | 
nyra.nyc | Samuel Stein |Liza Featherstone |Thomas de Monchaux |Kate Wagner
In November, US voters elected Donald Trump to a new, nonconsecutive term. The Developer in Chief will take the initiative to shape, and slash, policies in ways that stand to imperil the infrastructure of civic life. His various, nebulous campaign pronouncements included ending regulations related to housing construction, ramping up fossil fuel production, removing green energy incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act, and imposing staggering tariffs on imports.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
nplusonemag.com | Samuel Stein
card-default flavor-online-only type-online-only term-online-only format-pullquote tax-online-only featured- The past needs no pedestal; the gravity of our own moment is enough. Online OnlyAs Good As It Gets?
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Samuel Stein
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Samuel Stein
Every first of the month, the country’s renters hand more than 30 percent of their wages to their landlord. A quarter of them pay a majority in rent — a tremendous cash transfer from bosses to landlords that leaves tenants broke, exploited, and mad as hell. In cities, towns, rural areas, and reservations across the country, renters are organizing for lower rent and better conditions.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Samuel Stein
Every first of the month, half the country’s renters hand more than 30 percent of their wages to their landlord. A quarter of them pay a majority in rent — a tremendous cash transfer from bosses to landlords that leaves tenants broke, exploited, and mad as hell. In cities, towns, rural areas, and reservations across the country, renters are organizing for lower rent and better conditions.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
metropolitics.org | Oksana Mironova |Samuel Stein
A few years ago, the New York tenant movement forced the state government to strengthen and expand its rent regulation system. This was the greatest expansion of renters’ rights New York had seen in decades. In the years since, the movement has grown increasingly emboldened. But the state has grown increasingly intransigent, seemingly frozen in its tracks.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Samuel Stein
My oldest friends, Tal and Nate, lived in Clinton Hill for fifteen years. When they moved there in 2005, virtually everyone around them rented; only a few families seemed to have very high incomes. But both of those dynamics gradually changed. By the time they enrolled their daughter Mira in preschool, there were no other renters among the parents. “With the influx of all the new condos, the neighborhood had gotten so rich,” Tal told me.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
nyra.nyc | Samuel Stein
Over the past nineteen years, I have lived in twelve New York City apartments. Nine of them were rent stabilized; in four of those my name was on the lease, and in five of them I was a subletter or a roommate. There were two market-rate apartments, one of which was really an illegal single room occupancy. I was evicted from one of the subletted rent stabilized apartments.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
nplusonemag.com | Samuel Stein
Straight Line Crazy, written by David Hare and directed by Nicholas Hytner and Jamie Armitage. The Shed, New York, October 18–December 18, 2022. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:“Once upon a time there was a man who built New York City. Through sheer will and political cunning, and without ever holding elected office, he constructed most of the city’s current physical infrastructure.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
gothamgazette.com | Oksana Mironova |Samuel Stein
The Rent Guidelines Board in action (photo: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit)
Last week, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board raised rents by 3% for one-year leases and roughly 4.5% for two-year leases for 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Meanwhile, the Nassau County, Westchester County, Rockland County, and Kingston Rent Guidelines Boards approved either rent freezes or much smaller increases. What gives?
