Housing Notebook

• Housing issues: eviction moratorium extension needed! Eviction in Rochester -

TENANTS TO ALBANY: WAKE UP! EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW! As the winter freeze sets in and the streets cover with snow and ice, New York's eviction mill is picking up steam. Scott Sommer talks with Cea Weaver, of Housing Justice for All, about the latest in the campaign to get a true eviction moratorium in New York, and Allison Dentiger, from the Rochester Tenants Union, who reports on the details on nighttime police-enforced evictions and arrests.

Tenants are seeking to extend the moratorium on evictions & clear back rent, & to put in place a program whereby the bburden is on landlords to apply for aid, with small landlords prioritized

Housing Notebook is a production of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, New York's oldest tenant union.

• Cea Weaver, Campaign Coordinator, Housing Justice for All; Allison Dentiger, communications coordinator, Rochester City - Wide Tenants Union

• Met Council hotline: 212-979-0611, M 1:30-8 PM, Tu 5:30-8PM, W 1:30-8 PM, F 1:30-5 PM; www.metcouncilonhousing.org, thetenant.org; info@metcouncilonhousing.org; Facebook & Instagram: search for Met Council on Housing; email: housingnotebook@wbai.org – no housing problems please! Twitter: @met_council, @scottmsommer; wbai.org – live stream, find archive, join radio station there – become a WBAI buddy in the name of Housing Notebook! @wbai

• housingjusticeforall.org; @housing4allNY

• To contact state assembly (& senate_ members to ask them to pass the bill sponsored by AM Karines Reyes of the Bronx, A10827, which bars all evictions for the duration of the pandemic plus one year after. (The Senate bill S8667 is sponsored by Zellnor Myrie of Brooklyn.): https://bit.ly/CallYourReps12-2020

• Rent guidelines: For leases beginning between 10/1/20 & 9/30/21: 0% for a 1-year lease, 0% in 1st year & 1% in 2nd year for 2-year lease; Nassau, Westchester, Rockland: rent freeze!

• Heat & hot water: 10/1 – 5/31: From 6 am to 10 pm: If the outside temperature falls below 55 degrees, the inside temperature must be at least 68 degrees everywhere in your apartment. From 10 pm to 6 am in NYC: the inside temperature must be at least 62 degrees everywhere in your apartment regardless of the outside temperature. Hot water at a minimum 120 degrees at the tap must be provided 24 hours a day, year round. Go to nyc.gov/311 or call 311 to report lack of heat &/or hot water, or file complaint with 311 app; outside NYC call dept. of health or buildings. Call hotline (212-979-0611) for help with organizing, go to metcouncilonhousing.org for heat sheet