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Posted by SamE on June 14, 2000 at 07:51:26:

In Reply to: NY Stabilized? join the fight! tonight! posted by SamE on June 13, 2000 at 07:43:38:

Good turnout: good coverage on TV/radio
anyone see it in print media? please post.

NEXT STEP:

show up Thursday, even for just an hour!
can't show up? call Rudy! call any of your many politicians!
just don't sit there: do something!

WHY?

Additionally, in years when owners’ costs did not rise, the RGB
increased rents anyway, based on projections that costs might
rise in the coming year. For example, in 1998, owners’ costs
rose only 0.1%, yet the board raised rents 2% for a one-year
lease and 4% for two years, based on projections that owners’
costs might rise sharply in 1999. They did not, rising a virtually
invisible 0.03%, yet the RGB last year voted the same increases
as in 1998.

So tenants have already paid for the somewhat higher costs
owners claim this year, based on a temporary spike in fuel
costs.

DETAILS:

Rent Guidelines Board Schedule

Thursday, June 15
RGB Public Hearing on Proposed Rent Increases
Tenants should show up and testify in force! (especially tenants who
have been “poor taxed”)

Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street (near Bowery),
Manhattan (N, R trains to 8th Street or 6 to Astor Place)

Testimony from 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
(You can reserve your time to testify by phone, or just show up) RGB:
(212) 385-2834

Thursday, June 22
RGB Final Vote
Tenants should again show up in force!

Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street (near Bowery),
Vote will occur between 5 and 9 p.m.

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Comments:
: Good turnout: good coverage on TV/radio
: anyone see it in print media? please post.

: NEXT STEP:

:  show up Thursday, even for just an hour!
:  can't show up? call Rudy! call any of your many politicians!
:  just don't sit there: do something!

:  WHY?

:  Additionally, in years when owners’ costs did not rise, the RGB
:       increased rents anyway, based on projections that costs might
:       rise in the coming year. For example, in 1998, owners’ costs
:       rose only 0.1%, yet the board raised rents 2% for a one-year
:       lease and 4% for two years, based on projections that owners’
:       costs might rise sharply in 1999. They did not, rising a virtually
:       invisible 0.03%, yet the RGB last year voted the same increases
:       as in 1998. 

:       So tenants have already paid for the somewhat higher costs
:       owners claim this year, based on a temporary spike in fuel
:       costs.

:  
:  DETAILS:

: Rent Guidelines Board Schedule

:      Thursday, June 15 
:      RGB Public Hearing on Proposed Rent Increases 
:      Tenants should show up and testify in force! (especially tenants who
:      have been “poor taxed”) 

:      Great Hall at Cooper Union 
:      7 East 7th Street (near Bowery), 
:      Manhattan (N, R trains to 8th Street or 6 to Astor Place) 

:      Testimony from 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. 
:      (You can reserve your time to testify by phone, or just show up) RGB:
:      (212) 385-2834 

:      Thursday, June 22 
:      RGB Final Vote 
:      Tenants should again show up in force! 

:      Great Hall at Cooper Union 
:      7 East 7th Street (near Bowery), 
:      Vote will occur between 5 and 9 p.m. 


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