Fwd: Planners Network Forum: The Fight Over Rent Regulation and Real Estate Incentives

[Jen Tang]

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Use this area to offer a short preview of your email's content. View this email in your browser The Fight Over Renewing Rent Regulation and Real Estate Incentives: What's At Stake? A Planners Network-NYC Forum Rent Control and Rent Stabilization -- the two major forms of rent regulation in New York State -- expire in mid-June. Two other housing-related tax incentive programs also sunset around the same time. One is 421a, which provides property tax exemptions to developers, but requires 20 percent of the units be "affordable" in most of Manhattan and other "exclusion zones." The other is J-51, which offers property tax abatements to landlords as an incentive to renovate their properties. These and other programs almost certainly will be linked in negotiations around renewal in the state legislature. This forum will address what's at stake for each program and the politics around the fight. Representatives from tenant, housing policy and legal services organizations will detail the policies progressives are advocating for and against. We will also have speakers discussing the struggle to enforce the rent laws and protect tenants from illegal harassment and eviction. Speakers: Delsenia Glover (Tenants and Neighbors) Mike McKee (TenantsPAC) Harvey Epstein (Urban Justice Center) Barika Williams (Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development) Moderator: Ismene Speliotis (Mutual Housing Association of New York) Friday, Feb. 27, 2014 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Pratt Manhattan 144 West 14th St, Room 213 Please RSVP to  NYCPlanne...@gmail.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/998726070155248/       Copyright © 2015 Planners Network NYC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for Planners Network updates or attended a Planners Network event. Our mailing address is: Planners Network NYC Center for Community Planning & Development 695 Park Ave. New York, NY 10065 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences