Albany: Protect Working New Yorkers through Stronger Rent Regulation
By Delsenia Glover
Alliance for Tenant Power campaigns for rent regulation changes in Albany. Image Credit: Alliance for Power.
There are 1.1 million rent regulated apartments in New York City, housing approximately 2.5 million people. Rent regulation is the largest source of affordable housing for low-and moderate- income tenants, and is mostly concentrated in rapidly gentrifying communities with a majority population of people of color. It is a resource that we are rapidly losing to deregulation.