Lobbying disclosure data shows that top real estate organizations spent $13.56 million on lobbyists from 2019-2023. Over the last five years, the real estate industry’s lobbying activity focused on opposing Good Cause eviction protections rather than on policies to advance the production of housing. Albany lawmakers, legislative
staff, and members of the Executive Chamber staff kept an open door to real estate, data shows they were lobbied thousands of times during the past five years.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which initially put upwards of 40 million households across the U.S. at risk of eviction, new social science research has been seeking to clarify the relationships between eviction, the household-level hardships that surround eviction, and the impacts of eviction on community-level processes and outcomes, especially as they relate to neighborhood social ties and public safety.

Tenant Protection Act of 2019, Governor Cuomo is has stalled implementation.

Major Capital Improvement (MCI) increases are one of several tactics that landlords exploit to raise rents and drive displacement. With monthly MCI rent hikes as high as $800 per apartment, the Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance urges Albany to stand with tenants and eliminate MCI rent increases.

How women are impacted by New York State’s rental housing crisis.

Every night, more than 92,000 people in New York State — many of whom are women, and many of whom are women of color — sleep in a shelter. The rise in housing costs, combined with a lack of strong tenant protections, is a primary contributing factor.

Across the state, a growing number of low-income tenants are vulnerable to becoming homeless, and Governor Cuomo bears responsibility for their situation. This report from the Housing Justice for All Campaign shows that Cuomo’s failure to deliver stronger protections for tenants and take meaningful action to address homelessness over the past seven years has played a significant role in fueling the current housing crisis impacting many New Yorkers.