8 PM in our Community Room with Historian & Author Gil Tauber
City Budget Forum - Wed., May 15
at Goddard-Riverside Community Center
593 Columbus Ave. at 88th St.
4:00-5:30 PM
Tenant Lobby Day - Wed., May 22
Free bus to Albany. Contact Sue [sue at janak dot org] or Na'ava [na'ava at gmail dot com] if you'd like to come. You'll get training on the bus, and lobby for tenant protections and fair elections.
DHCR Regulation Proposals - Mon., June 10
Sue, Na'ava and others will be testifying. Come demand changes to limit Major Capital Improvement increases, among others. U.S. Custom House auditorium, Alexander
Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green. Sue is driving down. Contact her for a ride.
The Rent Guidelines Board - June 13
The next public hearing is downtown at the Emigrant Savings Bank, 49-51 Chambers St. (between B'way and Centre St) Manhattan, 10 Am to 2 PM.
The RGB is considering raising rents for stabilized tenants between 3.25-6.25% for 1-year leases and 5-9.5% for 2-year leases. That's a sharp increase from last year-increases of 2% and 4% were the lowest in recent memory.
With more than 50% of New Yorkers living in poverty, now is the time for the RGB to respond to the needs of the people and hold more extensive public hearings. Somehow, they've decided to forgo outer borough hearings and blatantly disregard rent-stabilized tenants in 4 of the 5 boroughs.
