Housing Notebook

• Good Cause Eviction & the Rent Guidelines Board -

RALLY FOR GOOD CAUSE EVICTION PROTECTIONS

Rents on the rise. Evictions intensify. Albany sits and does nothing. Housing Justice for All will bring us up to date on what we can do to save our homes! 

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

• Renette Bradley - tenant leader/organizer for HOPE; Joseph Loonam

• Met Council hotline: 212-979-0611, M & W 1:30-8 PM, Tu 5:30-8 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; wbai.org – live stream, find archive, join radio station there or call 212-209-2950 – become a WBAI buddy in the name of Housing Notebook!

• Rent Guidelines Board proposed rent guidelines: 2-4% for a 1 year lease, 4-6% for a 2-year lease (disgusting); public meeting: Thursday, May 26, 9:45 AM; public testimony (in-person): Monday, June 13, 5-9 PM at Jamaica Performing Arts Center Auditorium, 153-10 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, NY; Wednesday, June 15, 4-9 PM, at Main Theater at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, Hostos Community College/CUNY, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. There should also be virtual venues. For more information about hearings click here.

• Rally for Good Cause: Friday, May 27, at 11 AM at Foley Square Center & Duane Street

• Albany trip Tuesday, May 31: for more info & to register, go to bit.ly/531ALBANY; to fill out a statement of support, click here.

• 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. Call 311 to report lack of heat &/or hot water; outside NYC call dept. of health or buildings. Call hotline (212-979-0611) for help with organizing, get a heat sheet at metcouncilonhousing.org (bit.ly/heathotwater).

• Rent guidelines for leases beginning between 10/1/21 & 9/30/22: in NYC for apartments & lofts: for a 1-year lease, 0% in the first 6 months & 1.5% in the following 6 months; for a 2-year lease, 2.5%. No increase for SROs, rooming houses, & hotels. Rockland County: 0.5% for a 1-year lease, 0.75% for a 2-year lease. Westchester County: 0.5% for a 1-year lease, 1% for a 2-year lease. Nassau County: 1% for a 1-year lease, 2% for a 2-year lease.