New York Apartment Association’s Real Agenda is Raising Rents for Working Families
New York – Landlord lobby groups the Rent Stabilization Association (RSA) and the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) have merged to form a new landlord lobby group, the New York Apartment Association.
Though these groups purport to represent small property owners, these organizations are composed of some of the biggest names in real estate, including Douglas Durst, Chairman of the Durst Organization, who has a personal net worth of $4.4 billion.
The statement below can be attributed to Cea Weaver, Coalition Director of Housing Justice for All, a New York statewide coalition of more than 80 organizations representing tenants and homeless New Yorkers:
“The New York Apartment Association isn’t fooling anyone – their primary objective is, and always has been, raising rents for New Yorkers. For decades, the Rent Stabilization Association and the Community Housing Improvement Program fought relentlessly to drive up rents.
“Whether it’s through attempts to roll back critical tenant protections or by spreading misinformation, they’ve gone to great lengths to protect the profits of the real estate industry at the expense of working families. Tenants are half the state. We won’t be misled by flashy rhetoric designed to mask the real estate industry’s true agenda: profiting off our backs.”
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Housing Justice for All is a statewide coalition of more than 80 organizations representing tenants and homeless New Yorkers, united in our fight for housing as a human right.