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With expenses far outpacing rents, urgent policy reforms are needed to avoid widespread default in distressed affordable housing. We examine new reports from NYHC and NYAA. 

Kenny also has the latest on COPA and the Kingston rent control saga — and be sure to check out the brand-new edition of Housing New York Magazine.

Plus, do you or someone you know qualify for a rent freeze? 

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1:09: NYHC report says policy reforms needed to avert affordable housing failure

→ Bloomberg: NYC’s Squeezed Landlords Need $1 Billion to Help Avoid Default 

      → NYAA: $4.65 Billion Rent-Stabilized Building Bailout Needed

3:44: City Council rewrites COPA 

5:31: Kingston update 

7:03: Do you qualify for a rent freeze? Spreading the word on SCRIE & DRIE

→ Check if you or someone you know qualifies at nyc.gov/rentfreeze 

8:40: Kenny’s holiday housing wishlist 

9:05: Year-end compliance crunch checklist 

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The latest NYU Furman Center report provides a data-rich picture of New York’s rent-stabilized housing woes. Plus, residential insurance costs are one of the biggest reasons affordable housing is in so much trouble. NYAA testifies before the state Senate.

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1:11: NYU Furman Center brings the data on NYC’s rent-stabilized housing stock

4:07: NYAA testifies: untenable insurance premiums & the high cost of fraud

   → Watch NYAA Policy Director Kathleen Irwin’s full testimony before the NY State Senate 

6:26: COPA and the City Council

8:09: The who's who of Mayor-elect Mamdani’s housing-focused transition team

   → Mamdani selects several corporate executives to mollify city’s business community

10:02: Julie Menin declares victory in City Council speaker race

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Plus, we explain how rent controls lead to market paralysis and a tale of two cities.

And we have an exciting new partnership to tell you about. 

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1:14: Mamdani won. Now what?

3:13: Recap: Somos 2025

4:27: Rent freezes have consequences the world over

6:03: NYAA joins the National Apartment Association 

7:00: Uptown turkey giveaway 🦃

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Two new reports show rents aren’t covering operating costs in stabilized buildings and project it will cost billions to save them.

Plus, the insurance-cost crisis has finally captured the attention of state lawmakers. 

And we took a trip to Vienna, Austria. What we learned may surprise you. 

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1:11: ANHD and Enterprise sound the alarm

3:35: Should Mayor Adams stack the RGB on his way out?

5:14: The Legislature: Insurance crisis hearing scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 18

6:09: Is NYC Cooked? 

9:00: Preview: Housing lessons from Vienna 

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Leading mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has yet to take a stand on ballot questions 2, 3, and 4 — and he’s hinted that his $10 billion campaign platform might require a new funding mechanism. 

Plus, we break down the numbers behind last year’s 250,000 heating complaints.

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1:12: Housing on the ballot

→ Learn more about each ballot proposal here

3:35: Heat complaints in context 

5:14: Why we oppose a rent freeze

6:09: Mamadani’s “Plan B”

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Older, fully-stabilized buildings with capped revenues are in a death spiral. Plus, we analyze the FARE Act’s impacts with the help of a new report from Open Igloo. 

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1:12: “The rent is too damn high” (and not nearly high enough)

→ Read: Howard Slatkin for Vital City 

3:35: The ‘FARE Act’ effect

→ Read: Open Igloo’s NYC Summer 2025 Rent Report 

5:14: Kenny joins NY1’s Inside City Hall with Errol Louis 

6:09: Bill de Blasio confirms the RGB is an independent body

→ Read the full interview from The New York Editorial Board

7:09: Finding common ground with Jacobin’s Bhaskar Sunkara

→ Watch: Conversations with Coleman: Capitalist vs. Socialist on Rent Controls

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Plus, owners aren't holding apartments off the market because they want to, they're doing it because they can't afford not to.

And there are only two things certain in life: Death, and New York City’s unjust property tax system.

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0:57: Housing on the Ballot: New Yorkers will vote on housing measures in November

→ Check out the Charter Revision Commission’s ballot questions here.

1:45:  NYC’s Unlocking Doors program has no takers 

→ Just two owners applied; they both dropped out.

3:48: “NYC retirees got burned by bets on rent-stabilized apartments” 

→ Could the 2019 Rent Laws have something to do with it?

6:02: [Death] & Property Taxes

7:32:  The fight over CityFHEPS

8:52: Polling & the November election: How you ask a question matters.

→ The more New Yorkers learn about Zohran Mamdani’s proposed rent freeze, the less they support it.

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Plus, Kenny explains the sudden boom in 99-unit apartment buildings, why housing court policy drives up rents, and whether rent freezes are even constitutional. (It depends.)

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1:32: The Charter Revision Commission is on the ballot

2:51:  The 99-unit building boom explained 

5:08: HPD clogged housing pipeline encourages corruption

6:14: Housing court delays and high cost of eviction protections

7:30:  Are rent freezes even constitutional? 

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We break down the politics of the rent freeze. Plus, stick around for an excerpt of Kenny’s conversation with New Rochelle Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert about why they’re actually building enough housing to keep up with demand.

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1:15: Rent Freeze politics 

2:42: The Community Preservation Corporation says foreclosures and delinquencies are hitting nonprofit housing too.

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3:57: City Council member Carlina Rivera will be the next leader of NYSAFAH — the New York State Association for Affordable Housing. Congrats! 

4:35: Rent-stabilization experiment in Kingston hits another snag 

6:04: Preview: Kenny tours New Rochelle with Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert to learn about her “tried and true” recipe for housing success. 

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Plus, New York is bucking the national trend on evictions — with far fewer than everywhere else in the country. And we propose a small tweak to the 2019 rent laws that could boost home ownership.

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On The Agenda

1:29: Evaluating Mayor Adams’ housing claims 

3:26: Survey shows ~25% of elderly New Yorkers struggle to pay their bills

→ Report: Less than half of eligible residents are signed up for SCRIE

4:41: Why NYC needs an eviction diversion program 

6:07: Unsustainable climate-change policies 

8:49: Want to boost home ownership? Make co-op conversions possible again

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