The battle over a rent-controlled, Upper West Side Manhattan apartment has landed before the U.S. Supreme Court. And the justices are taking a look at the constitutional implications of a law that has been part of the fabric of New York City. The owners of a rental property, where tenant Nancy Wing Lombardi has lived in a one-bedroom apartment since 1976, say that the city's rent control law amounts to an unconstitutional government taking. According to the Wall Street Journal, Lombardi pays only $1,000 for the apartment, but she also owns a vacation home in the Hamptons.
CLIFTON -- The City Council tonight is expected to approve a measure to eliminate rent control for buildings of four, five and six apartments, but opponents protest that it would raise housing costs in a bad economy. The ordinance, approved 5-2 at first reading earlier this month, likely will be adopted tonight.
New Yorkers who live in affordable apartments - some of which have been handed down within families for years - can rest easy today. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a case challenging the city's rent control laws. The Court gave a hint that it could take up the challenge last month when it asked the city as state to respond to the petition by a landlord of an Upper West Side rental property. The owner claimed that city laws preventing him from increasing the rent on a tenant who has resided in an apartment since the 1970s amounts to an unconstitutional taking by the government. The rent is currently capped at a rate lower than the mortgage the tenant pays on a vacation home in the Hamptons.
I am totally astounded that the mayor and the City Council can sit back and completely ignore the obvious. We desperately and immediately need some type of emergency rent control in this city. From every corner of this once "quaint" city, apartments are being built left and right. If these were affordable housing for the masses, not just for seniors and someone on welfare, that would be one thing. The rents are so off the charts that only the well-to-do can afford them. I personally know of two renters who were forced to move and seek lower rent prices. One man had a rent increase of $300 and the other $400. What kind of greed is this? I submit that this type of rent increase exceeds greed. I further submit that City Hall has to know or should know that people are being forced to either...
ALBANY -- The sides have now turned over their cards: the "big ugly," or what some Assembly Democrats are calling the "big pretty," is out: property tax cap, rent control and creation of a new mandate relief council. With unveiling of the omnibus bill and release a short while ago of the SUNY bill and chapter amendments to the gay marriage measure, all the major outstanding pieces of legislation are now hanging out there awaiting passage later tonight by the two houses.
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