There was fury from tenants outside a Rent Guidelines Board public hearing in Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday night.
"It's absurd and obscene to try to get the top rent increase right now when we are in the middle of a housing and homeless crisis," said Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.: two to five percent for one-year leases and four to seven percent for two-year leases.
"I'm 71 years old. I don't got retirement. And after, it's more because I don't receive no food stamp, no nothing. So for me, It's going to be hard to survive," said Maria Cortes. Cortes is a rent-stabilized tenant from Bed-Stuy. She says if the proposed hikes go through, it would mean a $300 increase a month.
"I live day by day and running off the food pantry to get food to feed myself. And for my husband who is sick and legally blind," Cortes added. Cortes was one of hundreds of tenants who lined up around the block to testify at the hearing. IT was so packed, roughly half of them could not get inside, where it was raucous.There were no landlords who testified at the hearing, but in past hearings, they have argued that they, too are feeling the sting of inflation and suffered from COVID, saying they did not receive full rent from tenants out of work.
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