B1 Rent Boss to Be Replaced Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, frustrated with what he considered overly steep rent increases imposed last year on tenants of the city's 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, has decided to replace the chairman of the Rent Guidelines Board, Edward S. Hochman, just as the board begins debating the size of this year's increases, officials said.
More than 140 U.S. municipalities — including Los Angeles, Oakland and even Beverly Hills — have rent controls imposed in response to low vacancy rates and soaring rents.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, frustrated with what he considered excessive rent increases imposed last year on tenants of the city's 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, has decided to replace the chairman of the Rent Guidelines Board just as it begins debating the size of this year's increases, administration officials said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the misnamed and dysfunctional "affordable rent" regime imposed by the government on housing associations, the other main providers of social rented homes, is putting even greater pressure on councils to meet the needs of their least wealthy residents.
In Parliament Healy became an authority on the Irish land question, and the "Healy Clause" of the Land Act of 1881, which protected tenant farmers' agrarian improvements from rent increases imposed by landlords, not only made him popular throughout nationalist Ireland but also won his cause seats in Protestant Ulster.
Certain apartments have the electricity included in the rent and impose an electric surcharge for each air-conditioning unit.
But that kind of love fest ended after a rent increase was imposed in the mid-1970's, and some tenants mounted a rent strike.
Earlier this year large rent increases were imposed on traders – during the recession and just before the move.
Whatever name is used, it is the surcharge that rent regulators have imposed on low-cost apartments in New York City in 14 of the last 17 years.
Room rates tripled until local officials imposed rent control.
