Jim Epstein

One the worst drafted bills I have ever seen is being pushed in both houses. Picture this: you are a renter whose paid their rent for years and never missed a day ( like most renters). Your neighbor hasn’t paid rent in 5 years and owes $90,000 (also a growing phenomenon especially in nonprofits). Through the current system they’ve been able to use tax payer funded attorneys to continue to defund the building you live in by deferring their non-payment proceeding 11 times. When the judge has finally had enough and ready to make a judgement… The tenant then “accidentally” lets the bathtub overrun, or places a flower pot on the fire escape, or props open a fire door to bring in their groceries and it doesn’t close properly… Now under New York law they can no longer be evicted at all because the building has been given a violation. No renter in any building the property owner owns… even one that doesn’t have a violation can now no longer be evicted… If you are the renter paying your rent on time, how would you feel knowing this is how easy it is to live rent free? Knowing that your rent is going into thin air because the building is still going bankrupt because other renters are doing this? This is what the New York State legislature is attempting to do by pushing A.1621-A / S.4098 the “clean hands” bill. A bill that somehow manages to be bad for renters, bad for housing, bad for nonprofits and prop owners while also being unconstitutional all at the same time. The Community Service Society has already come out in support and is pushing. Every single sponsor of this bill needs to hear from property owners, renters, nonprofits, and the public to drop their support. Rather then helping those renters in need pay their rent with subsidy this bill if passed would end the functional operation of most housing in New York.

Zohran Mamdani is now randomly knocking on doors and demanding to inspect peoples homes. This is communism.

The 2000s were the opposite of brain rot. We were coding our MySpace profiles, jailbreaking iPhones, and pirating music on limewire for our mp3s.

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