This has been a good week in terms of moving the research along; I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I selected the sample of housing developments, I decided on the mutually exclusive categories to divide the properties into, and I developed an “action” category at the suggestion of our non-profit property tax expert. This action category will highlight certain properties that we can use when we’re trying to lobby the city or state to take action for affordable housing. For example, one of these action categories will be “Affordable housing regulations expire in the next five years.” In other words, anyone in city hall who is interested in ensuring affordable housing will want to examine the status of those buildings in order to keep it affordable and keep at bay the vultures who buy up affordable housing to evict the tenants and jack up the rents.
The bad news is that we only have another three weeks and change left…
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Hey Michael,
This that you are doing its awesome, Personal experience: I lived in a building in 151st St and Broadway, the owner lose the building and then the strategy was to misinform tenants so we weren’t fully aware who to pay the rent to and therefore be subject of eviction.
Eventually we were evicted, but we didn’t want to deal with the new admo any way. I realize that there is few or limited tenant protection and pretty sure that the prize of the rent in my former building is going to the skies.
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