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Cuomo at a campaign event in June. (Flickr\/Andrew Cuomo for Mayor)<\/p>\nEach Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.<\/p>\n
Cuomo at a campaign event in June. (Flickr\/Andrew Cuomo for Mayor)<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Andrew Cuomo pitched a controversial proposal to cap incomes for people signing new leases in rent-stabilized units.<\/p>\n
In an apparent dig at the mayoral election frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, who reportedly pays $2,300 a month for a rent-stabilized one-bedroom in Astoria, Cuomo said <\/a>\u201crent stabilized units when they are vacant should only be rented to people who need affordable housing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOtherwise what you are doing is abusing the system,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Nearly a million apartments in New York City are rent stabilized, housing 2.4 million New Yorkers.<\/p>\n Cuomo\u2019s proposal<\/a>, according to spokesperson Rich Azzopardi, would require that the yearly rent for a stabilized unit make up 30 percent or more of the household income. So if the rent was $2,500 a month (or $30,000 a year) the new tenants could make no more than $100,000.<\/p>\n The move was roundly denounced by his political opponents, tenant groups, and even some real estate insiders, who pointed out that people living in rent stabilized units already tend to be lower income and that the proposal might actually require new residents to be rent-burdened<\/a>, meaning they spend at least a third of their income on housing.<\/p>\n Nevermind the fact that as governor, Cuomo signed the 2019 rent laws that eliminated provisions allowing rent hikes<\/a> on wealthy families in stabilized units in the first place.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what else happened this week\u2014<\/p>\n ICYMI, from City Limits:<\/strong><\/p>\n ICYMI, from other local newsrooms:<\/strong><\/p>\n To reach the reporter behind this story, contact [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>. To reach the editor, contact [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want to republish this story? Find City Limits\u2019 reprint policy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \tWe want to hear from you!<\/p>\n Take a short anonymous survey to help us deliver content to empower our community.<\/p>\n\n