Betsy Kelleher here.
I have been misquoted by the New York Times.
I never said there would be a possibility of "rent control",
that's ludicrous - I said "rent stabilization" because it's been
known to happen many times in defacto, interim, multiple dwellings like this one in a residential zone. This would be justice and a step toward possible future loft law protection if the new bill on the table in Albany gets passed next time around. The place is only a disaster zone because some people with a lot of power in the city of New York have economic reasons for deciding it to be so - this week - after 10 years of 250 people living above a powder keg - give me a break.
What's been going on here is criminal, I just wonder when the city and the State of New York are going to get around to deciding that a legitimate code of ethics and law should apply to landlord/tenant and real estate issues. Is this the time of CromwelI? feel like I'm living in a Fascist state when it comes to real estate in New York City. Pretty soon there will be nothing soulful left of the cultural community in this city... How do the developers, the landlords and the officials who take the bribes live with themselves?
Betsy Kelleher here.
I have been misquoted by the New York Times.
I never said there would be a possibility of "rent control",
that's ludicrous - I said "rent stabilization" because it's been
known to happen many times in defacto, interim, multiple dwellings like this one in a residential zone. This would be justice and a step toward possible future loft law protection if the new bill on the table in Albany gets passed next time around. The place is only a disaster zone because some people with a lot of power in the city of New York have economic reasons for deciding it to be so - this week - after 10 years of 250 people living above a powder keg - give me a break.
What's been going on here is criminal, I just wonder when the city and the State of New York are going to get around to deciding that a legitimate code of ethics and law should apply to landlord/tenant and real estate issues. Is this the time of CromwelI? feel like I'm living in a Fascist state when it comes to real estate in New York City. Pretty soon there will be nothing soulful left of the cultural community in this city... How do the developers, the landlords and the officials who take the bribes live with themselves?
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