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  • June 2015

March Over Bridge Sends Message to Albany

by Steven Wishnia Issue June 2015

More than 1,500 people marched over the Brooklyn Bridge May 14 to demand that New York State strengthen its rent-regulation….

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  • May 2015

RGB rechaza disminución de alquileres

by Steven Wishnia Issue May 2015

El Sur del Bronx se enfrentó con los cerebritos liberales de las políticas del gobierno de Bill de Blasio el….

Chanting “Rent Rollback” to the RGB.
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  • May 2015

RGB Rejects Rent Rollback

by Steven Wishnia Issue May 2015

The South Bronx met the liberal policy wonks of the de Blasio administration April 29, and the Bronx lost. As….

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  • April 2015

De Blasio Picks Three New RGB Members

by Steven Wishnia Issue April 2015

Mayor Bill de Blasio has now selected eight of the nine members of the city Rent Guidelines Board, On March….

Bronx residents hear about rezoning March 5.
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  • March 2015

Plan de rezonificación del Bronx hace cundir temores de aburguesamiento

by Steven Wishnia Issue March 2015

Mientras otra tormenta de nieve hacía acumular un polvo gélido en las calles de la ciudad y disminuía la velocidad….

Bronx residents hear about rezoning March 5.
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  • March 2015

Bronx Rezoning Plan Sparks Gentrification Fears

by Steven Wishnia Issue March 2015

As yet another snowstorm piled icy powder on the city’s streets and slowed the elevated 4 train to a tortoise-like….

Protesters outside One57 last month.
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  • March 2015

Movement Builds to End 421a Luxury Tax Break

by Steven Wishnia Issue March 2015

“Subsidize our house, not the penthouse,” protesters chanted outside the One57 luxury-condo building at 157 West 57th St. last month…..

Atlantic Avenue on the East New York/Brownsville border, the street Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to rezone for taller and denser housing.
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  • February 2015

Will Mayor’s Housing Plan Spur Gentrification?

by Steven Wishnia Issue February 2015

Saying that “nothing more clearly expresses the inequality gap… than the soaring cost of housing,” Mayor Bill de Blasio devoted….

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  • January 2015

How Landlords Harass Old People

by Steven Wishnia Issue January 2015

Landlords trying to drive out rent-regulated tenants generally use the same harassment methods against the elderly as they do against….

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  • November 2014

You Can’t Share Food in 15 U.S. Cities

by Steven Wishnia Issue November 2014

More then 15 U.S. cities, including Seattle and Houston, have passed laws restricting feeding homeless people in public in the….

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  • November 2014

San Francisco Votes Down Speculation Tax

by Steven Wishnia Issue November 2014

San Francisco voters on Nov. 4 rejected a ballot initiative intended to curb real-estate speculation. Proposition G, which would have….

Marching in Harlem August 20, 2014
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  • September 2014

Inquilinos y sindicatos laborales se unen para demandar ‘50% asequibilidad verdadera, construida por mano de obra sindicalizada’

by Steven Wishnia Issue September 2014

Más de 1,000 personas marcharon media milla por el Bulevar Adam Clayton Powell en Harlem el 20 de agosto, demandando….

Mock bowling pins with the names of leading San Francisco speculators.
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  • September 2014

San Francisco Tenants Seek Speculation Tax

by Steven Wishnia Issue September 2014

SAN FRANCISCO—This November, voters in San Francisco have a chance to discourage real-estate speculation by enacting a stiff tax on….

Marching in Harlem August 20, 2014
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  • September 2014

Tenants, Labor Join to Demand ‘50% Real Affordability, Union Built’

by Steven Wishnia Issue September 2014

More than 1,000 people marched a half-mile up Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem Aug. 20, demanding that at least….

Redoneva Andrews of the Flatbush Tenants Coalition speaks at a City Hall rally June 6.
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  • July 2014

Can Brooklyn Tenants Stop Luxury High-Rise?

by Steven Wishnia Issue July 2014

Tenants in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn have mobilized to stop a developer from building a 23-story tower….

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