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About the new RGB member, from City Limits Weekly

Postby Lilly » Mon May 13, 2002 1:56 pm

City Limits WEEKLY
Week of: May 13, 2002
Number: 330

INS AND OUTS
The Rent Guidelines Board gained a tenant advocate last week when Mayor Bloomberg appointed Legal Aid attorney Adriene Holder, while the city’s settlement houses are slated to lose their longtime leader this summer. > Compiled by staff


Mayor Bloomberg appointed Legal Aid attorney Adriene Holder to fill the vacant seat on the Rent Guidelines Board last Tuesday (despite predictions of other candidates reported in last week’s City Limits Weekly [“He’s Back, Too?” May 6]). Given the title just two hours before the board was scheduled to take its preliminary vote on new rent guidelines for the city’s 1 million rent-regulated apartments, Holder asked the mayor to postpone the meeting to give her time to review the latest data on rent stabilized housing and to read recent tenant and landlord testimony on the matter. Mayor Bloomberg obliged, and rescheduled the preliminary vote for Monday, May 20. The board will take its final vote on June 27.
Holder is no stranger to tenant issues. A lawyer at the Legal Aid Society since 1991, she has worked on the case battling community service requirements for public housing residents, and she is currently defending Section 8 tenants who claim the Housing Authority took too long to help them relocate after their landlord lost his federal funding for keeping his building in constant disrepair.

As for her position as a member of the RGB--a post she describes as worthy of “congratulations and condolences”--she said she is continuing to review the material and has yet to decide what kind of rent increase, if any, she supports. But, she added, noting a rise in landlord profits and a drop in expenses, “If tenants don’t get a break this year, I don’t know when they ever will.”
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