50 years ago today, New York's rent stabilization system was signed into law.
For 50 years, the Emergency Tenant Protection Act has kept New Yorkers in their homes and neighborhoods.
Now it’s time to strengthen & expand the ETPA -- to protect New Yorkers for the next 50 years.
“In the US, we are led to believe that we just need to keep working harder—and it’s bullshit! I work hard. And, I still don’t have a safe place to live.
What we saw is when the profit motive is taken out of housing, it’s a game changer.” — Dorca Reyonoso
🚨🚨 JOIN NYC’S BIGGEST TENANT MOBILIZATION IN YEARS 🚨🚨
Landlords are squeezing us for all we got. The rent. is. too. damn. high.
It's time to fight back. RSVP + more info:
#BREAKING
: On October 1st, the day rent is due & the eviction moratorium expires, over 12 housing community leaders are getting arrested calling to
#CancelRent
!
BREAKING: dozens of tenants and homeless New Yorkers are blocking the entrance to
@GovKathyHochul
’s office for 78 minutes — for the 78,000 New Yorkers currently homeless.
We need
#GoodCause
and
#HAVP
IN THE BUDGET.
SO RIGHT NOW YOUR LANDLORD CAN RAISE RENT AS MUCH AS HE WANTS FOR LIKE ANY REASON — YEAH NO ITS NOT ILLEGAL RIGHT NOW IT’S CRAZY BUT IF THIS BILL PASSES IN NEW YORK TENANTS COULD FIGHT BACK ITS CALLED GOOD CAU—
Live from Brooklyn housing court: hundreds of tenants have gathered to let Scabby Andy
@NYGovCuomo
know that all evictions have got to go! Extend the full eviction moratorium!
#EvictionFreeNY
#CancelRent
Each candle represents 100 families facing eviction in New York on January 15, when our eviction moratorium is set to expire. Over two hundred thousand.
#GoodCauseEviction
#HouseNY
“Fighting to pass
#GoodCause
eviction is essential. We have to push
@GovKathyHochul
to make sure that she includes this in the budget.” --
@AOC
Thank you
@AOC
for standing with NY tenants. Let's get this done!
Hey Stern & Stern law firm: keep trying to evict tenants, and we’ll keep showing up and shutting down your office every day. Other lawyers working for landlords: watch out, we’re coming for you next.
#CancelRent
#EvictionFreeNYC
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
After years of organizing, the city of Albany just passed NY’s first ever GOOD CAUSE EVICTION law.
Goodbye to unjust rent hikes, goodbye to retaliatory evictions. NYS legislature: take notice. This is going Statewide!
@citizenactionny
@UTAlbany
@MayorSheehan
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of tenants and homeless NYers have descended on Albany to say NEW YORKERS CAN’T WAIT.
We need
#GoodCause
and HAVP IN THE BUDGET.
We’re at Tivoli Towers tonight, one of the biggest rent stabilized apartment buildings in Crown Heights.
Gentrification, ground zero. We’ve got one message for
@NYGovCuomo
#CancelRent
#EvictionFreeNY
A private equity firm bought their homes and IMMEDIATELY started hiking up rents and kicking out long-term tenants.
Now these East Village tenants are fighting back They're demanding state leaders pass
#GoodCause
IN THE BUDGET.
On Mother's Day weekend and every day of the year, New York is taking bold action to make our state more affordable and livable for families.
Our moms deserve nothing less.
In the midst of a pandemic,
@NYGovCuomo
is leaving at least half the state -- those of us who rent our homes, and those of us who are homeless -- behind.
#CuomosCOVID
Stand with us and fight to
#CancelRent
NOW: Housing rights community leaders are shutting down Broadway with furniture to represent what would happen if NYS doesn’t
#CancelRent
:
Our communities will start getting evicted!
#EvictionFreeNY
Evictions are pushing people to suicide.
And the real estate industry is doing everything they can to protect their “right” to evict and destroy our lives. It’s inhumane.
I can't fathom this. Not the man's choice, but a society obsessed with violence that can't see how evictions and denying people housing is so incredibly violent.
Black mothers are 3-4 times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.
It's unconscionable and it must change. That's why in New York, we're taking action to expand access to high-quality prenatal care, reduce costs, create safer births, and save lives.
#BMHW24
Audrey Lumer, 63, was found dead on a G train subway platform, surrounded by bags and covered in bed bugs, less than four years after she was evicted from her apartment in Queens.
#BREAKING
: Our movement is taking over and blocking the entrance to the NYS Capital. We will not be moved. We will not be evicted. Pass
#GoodCause
and
#HouseNY
.
New York built high quality, affordable homes like Co-Op City for every day New Yorkers in the past.
We can do it again. It’s time to create the Social Housing Development Authority.
“Why is it that our elected officials are more comfortable with tens of thousands of people dying and going homeless, than they are with actually trying to cancel rent?”
Check out our eviction defense teach-in w/
@AOC
&
@JamaalBowmanNY
#EvictionFreeNY
#CancelRent
Looks like
@GovKathyHochul
might have forgotten a few things in her housing plan this week: namely, any real protections for tenants or homeless New Yorkers.
We’re here to remind her. This is what working families really want from Albany this year to solve the housing crisis.
STATEMENT: The collapse of NYS's housing deal is proof that too many lawmakers in Albany answer first and foremost to their real estate donors – not to their constituents.
Every leader in Albany bears responsibility for this failure, including
@CarlHeastie
and
@AndreaSCousins
.
RENT CONTROL IS THE FUTURE: Newburgh's City Council just voted UNANIMOUSLY to opt into rent control, thanks to organizing by our coalition members
@ForTheMany
and
@mhvdsa
.
Albany, Ithaca, Rochester, Poughkeepsie, and Middletown will be next.
TONIGHT: Rent control may come to Newburgh.
Our state refused pass
#GoodCause
and act on the housing crisis last leg session. Now upstate tenants are taking the fight for rent regulation to the local level.
Read more in
@CityAndStateNY
from
@AJeffNY
.
.
@NYGovCuomo
's reaction to
#COVID19
has been austerity, cost cutting, and even prison labor. We believe this crisis means we need MORE money for public housing, MORE money to house the homeless, and an END to evictions. Stand with us!
#NYHomesGuarantee
Criminalizing homelessness won’t solve the crisis.
Keeping rents low + housing our homeless neighbors will.
This SCOTUS decision is cruel. But our fight for homes for all continues.
STATEMENT: Both
@CarlHeastie
@AndreaSCousins
have the votes to pass a comprehensive housing package that includes
#GoodCause
#HAVP
.
The time for leadership is now. Millions of lives hang in the balance. It’s time for the state legislature to call Governor Hochul’s bluff.
"Two-thirds of [Vienna's] rental housing is covered by rent control, and all tenants have just-cause eviction protections.
Such regulations, when coupled with adequate supply, give renters a level of stability comparable to American owners with fixed mortgages."
Instead of coming together to deliver for NYers struggling amidst a historic housing crisis,
@GovKathyHochul
@AndreaSCousins
&
@CarlHeastie
seem to be throwing their hands in the air.
That's why today we dropped this banner over the GWB bridge. Inaction is not an option. 🧵 1/
COVID-19 closures:
Broadway- til April 12th
Metropolitan Opera- til March 31st
Guggenheim- no end date
Hold on Evictions: JUST 1 WEEK
Who thinks this is okay?
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of homeless NYers and tenants marching through the capitol to demand funding to
#EndHomelessness
, fund public housing, and protect tenants!
NYPD is ARRESTING TENANTS +
@JumaaneWilliams
just for standing up for housing justice.
Real estate has taken over New York. Evictions are violent and we will NOT BE SILENCED.
We’re tired of
@NYGovCuomo
lying to New Yorkers.
Evictions are already happening under Cuomo’s fake eviction moratorium.
This eviction took place THIS WEEKEND in Rochester.
You can’t fool us Cuomo. We need a real moratorium from the legislature.
#EvictionFreeNY
Who supports
#GoodCause
?
If leadership in Albany doesn’t care about the humans being displaced by eviction…maybe they care abt this very good boy!
#GoodPaws4GoodCause
🏘🐾 🐶
BREAKING: following our press conference at the NYS Capitol today, over 100 local elected officials and community organizations statewide are demanding the immediate passage of
#GoodCause
for all of New York:
NEW: 38 NYS electeds say NO to rolling back rent stabilization in exchange for a gutted
#GoodCause
:
@SenGianaris
: "The people of this great state deserve no less than our full efforts to protect all tenants, not pit one group of renters against another.”
Arrests have been made outside the Senate Chamber!
Tenants and housing leaders put their bodies on the line for
#GoodCause
in Albany.
New Yorkers are being evicted unfairly throughout the state. Our elected officials must act NOW!
Governor, 30% of trans Americans have been homeless. 20% report housing discrimination, including evictions for being trans.
Protecting them means outlawing this practice. Trans NYers deserve safe, stable housing — they deserve
#GoodCause
and
#HAVP
in our State Budget. 🏳️⚧️🧱🏠
Trans rights are under attack across the country.
On
#TransDayOfVisibility
, my message to the transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming community is this: We see you, we value you, and you are welcome in New York, no matter what.
This is a slap in the face to tenants.
This would be the weakest
#GoodCause
in the country, denying hundreds of thousands of renters basic protections from predatory landlords.
@GovKathyHochul
,
@AndreaSCousins
, and
@CarlHeastie
: this is a giveaway to real estate.
On good cause eviction, one source tells me concessions include:
- exemption for rents 200% of fair market rent
- 30 yr exemption for new construction
- owner-occupied buildings of 8 units or less, and those landlords with a 10 unit portfolio exempt
- opt-in for municipalities
BREAKING:
@JumaaneWilliams
and 200+ tenants are BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE to the BIGGEST REAL ESTATE LOBBY GROUP IN NY:
@REBNY
.
Real estate is KILLING New York with rent hikes and evictions. It’s time to fight back.
What’s got 40 rooms, 6 acres, 2 swimming pools and charges its tenant zero rent?
@NYGovCuomo
’s mansion! So
@citizenactionny
decided to stop by and send a message:
#CANCELRENT
now!
New York’s eviction moratorium expires today, after
@GovKathyHochul
and the legislature refused to take action to protect renters.
Find out what rights you still have and how to fight for more ⤵️
@NPR
“And, as economist
@JWMason1
has pointed out, recent studies of rent regulations have noted that its impact on housing has been largely exaggerated and that rent regulation has been extremely effective at limiting the cost of rent.”
STATEMENT: On the failure of the legislature to pass
#GoodCause
, Housing Justice for All released the following statement:
“
@GovKathyHochul
,
@CarlHeastie
, and
@AndreaSCousins
chose to cater to a small set of wealthy landlords over the needs of millions of working families.”
Evictions in New York start today, and there's still no money for rent.
Make you mad? Join us at 11:00:
🏘 In NYC, at Foley Square
🏘 In Buffalo, at Buffalo Housing Court, 50 Delaware Ave
🏘 In Albany, at the Capitol bdg, Washington Side
🏘 In Roc, at 99 Exchange Blvd (5 PM)
Today at 9:00 AM the State opened up the application for rent relief because of COVID-19.
If you can qualify, which is a big if, you only have 2 weeks to apply.
And by 9:14 am . . .
NEW: The Carpenters Union takes on the most powerful real estate lobby group in the state:
“[
@REBNY
] would rather your constituents endure homelessness and poverty because they cannot stand the idea of making one dollar less — despite their billions of dollars in revenue."
Hey
@NYCMayor
: we’re not outside agitators, we’re New Yorkers fed up with your racist NYPD. So we had to stop by your house to demand that you defund the racist cops NOW (and fight to
#CancelRent
)! Put people over property!
📣 THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH! (Louder for the legislators in the back!)
From Buffalo to Brooklyn, tenants are FIGHTING BACK against rent hikes. Join them by calling your rep:
1 in 10 children in NYC is homeless.
89K people sleep in our shelters.
If Gov. Cuomo and legislators fail to act, that number will exceed 100K by 2020.
The time to act is now!
Join the
#UniversalRentControl
fight:
✍️
#TenantTuesday
There’s money available for landlords who want to renovate rent stabilized apartments.
But landlords won’t apply for it — they’re holding out so they can roll back rent stabilization. They want to go back to rent gouging tenants with impunity.
Albany blew through its budget deadline on Saturday.
This is what's on the line: millions of tenants across NY who could get slammed with a double-digit rent hike or an eviction at any moment.
Tell our leaders
#TenantsCantWait
for
#GoodCause
and
#HAVP
:
Our statement on tonight’s results:
While
@GovKathyHochul
may have pulled out a victory, the fact results were in doubt until the very end is a damning statement on the politics of moderation. Choosing donors over tenants has never and will never be a winning strategy.
Did your landlord just give you a rent hike you can't afford? You're not alone.
That's why we made this toolkit! Learn how to organize with your neighbors and fight back:
BIG: NY Times editorial board comes out in support of
#GoodCause
!
“These protections are badly needed in New York, where price gouging is common and evictions are on the rise.”
@MaraGay
We are @ Hudson Yards to launch our 2022 platform,
#HouseNY
!! Tenants & homeless NYrs are standing in NYC, Rochester, Albany & Buffalo to demand an end to the housing and homelessness crisis!
A delegation of tenants, homeless NYers, + elected officials are on their way to Vienna to learn about Social Housing!
We’re bringing back what we learn to NY so we can fight for the housing we deserve.
Follow along this week using the hashtags
#SocialHousing
and
#WhenInWien
Hey Slochowsky & Slochowsky LLP, thought you could get away with evicting tenants during a pandemic? Think again. Tenants are coming for you.
#CancelRent
#EvictionFreeNYC
Millions of New Yorkers don’t know how they’ll make rent next month. 78k NYers are homeless.
We can’t wait another minute to pass
#GoodCause
. The Senate Judiciary Committee has the votes -- it’s time to move it out of committee NOW.
POWERFUL! Housing justice elected allies join the 1,000+ tenants in our picket line at the NY State Capitol to call on leadership to pass key legislation to keep immigrant and working class New Yorkers housed.
#GoodCause
#HAVP