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Rangel Now Only Hoards Three Rent Controlled Apartments


Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel has announced that he will vacate the rent controlled apartment he has been using as a campaign office. This apartment is just one of four rent controlled apartments he is hoarding in the Lenox Terrace apartment building in Harlem.

NY Times – Rangel to Relinquish Apartment Used [...]

Congressman Rangel Legally Plunders $30,000/year in Four Rent Controlled Apartments


[update! Rangel Now Only Hoards Three Rent Controlled Apartments] In case you missed it, powerful New York Congressman Charlie Rangel has been hoarding four apartments in Harlem’s Lenox Terrace. Coincidently (perhaps not so coincidently) Lennox Terrace is the same building where New York’s Governor Patterson, Patterson’s father, former Manhattan Borough President, Percy E. [...]

Rent Control Part 4: Conclusion and Solutions


Welcome to the final post in the series discussing the consequences of rent control. Thank you to the subscribers who have patiently awaited each new post. I hope everyone found it enlightening.

If you haven’t read the entire series, you can catch up with these links: Rent Control Part One: Microeconomics Lesson and [...]

Rent Control Part 3: Mobility, Regional Growth, Development and Class Conflict


Part One of this series was a refresher on the Microeconomics of Rent Control and touched on how it encourages hoarding Part Two discussed rent controls influence on the black market for apartments, rental property deterioration and housing discrimination. Here in Part Three, we will discuss how rent control hampers mobility, regional growth, [...]

Rent Control Part 2: Black Market, Deterioration and Discrimination


With New York’s new Governor’s rent subsidized by his landlord and California debating the best ways to end rent control through Proposition 98, I thought it was a good opportunity to discuss the negative aspects of rent control.

This post is the second in a four part series on the rent control read [...]

Rent Control Part 1: Microeconomics Lesson & Hoarding


This post has been released as the first in a four part series: Rent Control Part One: Microeconomics Lesson and Hoarding Rent Control Part Two: Black Market, Deterioration, and Discrimination Rent Control Part Three: Mobility, Regional Growth, Development, and Class Conflict Rent Control Part Four: Conclusion and Solutions

With New York’s new Governor [...]

NY Gov. Patterson’s Rent-Stabilized Apartment in Harlem


NY Sun: Paterson Pays A Stabilized Rate of Rent

The governor of New York pays about $1,250 a month for a two-bedroom, rent-stabilized apartment in central Harlem, even while owning a home upstate in Guilderland and having unfettered access to the 40-room Governor’s Mansion in Albany.

Governor Paterson and his wife, Michelle, made [...]

Release Us From Rent Regulation


Curbed: Rent-Stabilzation War: Tenants Strike Back

New York Times: Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity

Rent-regulated apartments account for 57 percent of the total in the Bronx, 42 percent of the apartments in Brooklyn, 59 percent in Manhattan, 43 percent in Queens and 15 percent of those on Staten Island, the Guidelines [...]