Both the rent regulation extension and the new rule on notifying tenants of deregulation passed by votes of 46 to 3. Council members supporting rent regulation cited the rise in free-market rents and the housing shortage reflected by the city's negligible vacancy rate, 3.19percentt in the latest Census Bureau study.
This month, Mr. Cuomo rebuffed suggestions by tenant advocates that he include a rent-law extension in his amended executive budget, released on March 3.
In some places the Mid-Atlantic Ridge reaches above sea level to form islands. Iceland, which rises from its crest, is rent by an extension of the median rift valley.
Often, unless they are totally maxed out on their credit, families can negotiate extensions on rent, utilities or some other costs.
Some real estate and authority executives expect Mr. Silverstein to demand a rent discount, a deadline extension and, perhaps, the elimination of the so-called cross-default clause.
In a speech, he will call for an extension of "rent to own" schemes under which people do not need a deposit and part of their rent goes towards buying their home.
More conventionally, Mr. Bloomberg said he supported the extension of rent stabilization laws and did not agree with the argument of some developers that the laws were what accounted for the housing shortage in New York.
The F.B.I.'s 20-year lease, with an option for two five-year extensions, has a rent of $11.6 million a year, according to the federal General Services Administration.
When all else failed Hamm got by: flirting with his landlady in the interest of getting extensions on the rent ("I was managing that situation, yes…") and getting the bus, unheard of in LA, when his car broke down and he couldn't afford to fix it.
A lenient landlord gives her extensions on her rent, which has allowed her to scale back to part-time work while she studies.
