Photo: Dave Sanders for The New York Times
The New York Times reports what many of us have observed for
years:
- Gentrification is proceeding at an alarming
pace, and rents are skyrocketing in the city’s most populous borough.
- The old geographic boundaries of “affordable”
and “unaffordable” are disappearing. Once working class neighborhoods have been
gentrified; some areas are now undergoing “super-gentrification”
and pushing old fashioned speculators outward in pursuit of new territory.
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It’s really hard to find an affordable rental
apartment in this city.
Does this sound like a market in which landlords need another rent increase?
We need rent regulation because the real estate market will
not provide the kind of stability we as a society desire. Persistent RGB rentincreases, along with vacancy bonuses, IAIs, MCIs and other loopholes in therent laws, have pushed many once-affordable apartments out of the regulation
system. Tenants are looking to the RGB for relief.
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