Post 9kHRFT4lJMv0tkLPBQ by SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party
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 (DIR) Post #9kHRFR8EXUVUrvx9Jg by SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party
       2019-06-27T17:57:56Z
       
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       City Council is currently holding a hearing on new housing laws, and if you are a New Yorker and care about this, you can watch online here: https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/Webcasts/Default.aspx?From=InSite&LocationID= (Pick "City Hall Chambers") #NYCPol #NYC #NYChousing #affordablehousing
       
 (DIR) Post #9kHRFSAOgvpe4vyOKO by SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party
       2019-06-27T18:02:16Z
       
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       I'm actually really pro-everything that they are proposing, EXCEPT the fact that they want to limit agent fees for *tenants* in order to secure rental apartments because City Council, bless their hearts, believes that the landlord should just pay the fees. A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, like landlords are going to actually pay us what we're worth.
       
 (DIR) Post #9kHRFSR3gz9wublhIW by SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party
       2019-06-27T18:02:22Z
       
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       (Secretly hoping this passes, though, because I've wanted to start unionizing real estate agents *against* landlords, rather than the Real Estate Board of New York being the organization that "supports" agents... but is funded and ENTIRELY controlled by landlords, not workers.)
       
 (DIR) Post #9kHRFShih2UFkHZ0Ge by SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party
       2019-06-27T18:15:47Z
       
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       Absolutely unconscionable to me that not only the City Council members AND the City department witnesses in this hearing know how the state laws, which govern our licenses and our consumer practices, work. This stuff is literally on a ONE PAGE document that we give to all of our clients. They could just look it up!
       
 (DIR) Post #9kHRFT4lJMv0tkLPBQ by SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party
       2019-06-27T18:17:28Z
       
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       "My feeling is that the landlords should be paying for this, and they should be paying generously for it"-- LMFAO, dude, what Disneyland do you live in where you put "Landlords" and "Generously" in the same sentence?
       
 (DIR) Post #9kHRFTKMNNOZg7drUm by SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party
       2019-06-27T18:23:24Z
       
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       How did I *just* hear that the state passed legislation that application fees cannot exceed $20, and that tenants should not be charged if they provide their own documentation for credit and background check?I *hate* that there are landlords who consistently charge $100, ostensibly for a background and credit check that costs no more than $15... Some charge, I am not kidding, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS as an application fee for what, exactly?