Rent stabilized apartments are an important part of the mix of this neighborhood. But rent stabilized apartments are being lost at a tremendous rate as apartments become vacant. The New York Is Our Home campaign (including Housing Here & Now, Tenants & Neighbors, the PIE Campaign and many other tenant advocacy groups) is going to Albany on Tuesday, May 13 to support a bill, A7416-A by local Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal that would repeal vacancy decontrol.
Let's work to ensure this bill is the very first one passed if and when the Senate Majority Leader is no longer Republican Joseph Bruno in 2009. Come to Albany. Below is the flier from New York Is Our Home:
NEW YORK IS OUR HOME!
Join Tenant Leaders and Community Groups for a rally to
REPEAL VACANCY DECONTROL!
Cheer the Assembly as they pass a bill to repeal vacancy decontrol and strengthen other tenant protections.
Lobby the Senate to make these protections law!
New York is Our Home Campaign Rally
Tuesday, May 13th
ALL DAY
The State Capitol in Albany
Sponsored by: ACORN, Community Voices Heard, Make the Road New York, Met Council on Housing, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, NYC AIDS Housing Network, Tenants & Neighbors, The New York Immigration Coalition, Working Families Party (List in formation)
Bring lunch, snacks or food money, along with signs, banners and your neighbors!
Bus locations throughout the city will leave starting at 8am.
RSVP & we’ll direct you to the nearest location.
212-608-5122, julie@housinghereandnow.org
