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The R3 Coalition Includes:
REAL RENT REFORM CALLS GOVERNOR’S CHANGE OF STRATEGY ON
2022, a Cooperators’ Organization RENT LAW REFORM “SIMPLY WRONG,” URGES HIM TO RECONSIDER
of Penn South
Association for Neighborhood and
Housing Development
Asian Americans for Equality
Bushwick Housing Independence
Project
Central Park Gardens Tenants FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 23, 2011 CONTACT: Doug Forand, (917) 733-2763
Association
Chhaya CDC
Community Service Society of
New York
Community Voices Heard Full statement from Real Rent Reform Campaign’s Michael McKee:
CWA Local 1180
East Side Housing Coalition
DC 37, AFSCME
Fifth Avenue Committee “We are greatly disappointed that the Governor now says rent law renewal and
Goddard Riverside
Good Old Lower East Side reform may not be in the budget, just days after saying he preferred to include
Habitat for Humanity the issue in budget negotiations. It is simply wrong for Governor Cuomo to wave
Housing Conservation Coordinators
Interfaith Assembly on the white flag on this critical issue and to give the first major concession of his
Homelessness & Housing
Janel Towers Tenants Association
tenure to the Senate Republicans and their deep-pocketed allies in the real estate
Legal Services Staff Association industry. Our state government is broken because of special interests like this, and
London Terrace Tenants Association
Make the Road New York any form of appeasement will only embolden them to create further obstacles to
Metropolitan Council on Housing real reform.
MFY Legal Services, Inc.
Mitchell-Lama P.I.E. Campaign
Mirabal Sisters Cultural & The governor clearly knows that rent law renewal and reform is critical for millions
Community Center
Mount Vernon United Tenants
of New Yorkers. All the rent reform supporters I have talked to agree that the
Neighbors Helping Neighbors only way to accomplish meaningful reform of rent regulation is to pass it within
New Settlement Apartments/CASA
New York Communities for Change budget, and that only a budget including rent reform will be acceptable. Anything
Northwest Bronx Community & short will play into the Republican plans to delay renewal until the last minute, and
Clergy Coalition
Pratt Area Community Council then dilute rent protections the same way they did the last time these laws had
Project Hospitality
St. Nicholas Neighborhood
to be renewed. If the Governor is sincere about his stated goal of strengthening
Preservation Corp. rent regulations, he will reconsider his approach and include rent reform in the
Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper
Village Tenant Association budget.”
New York State Tenants &
Neighbors Coalition
Tenants Political Action Committee
UAW Local 2320
Urban Justice Center
Visitation Social Action Committee
VOCAL
West Side Neighborhood Alliance
West Side SRO Law Project
West Village Houses Renters’ Union
Woodside on the Move
Working Families Party
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