In new York arrested eight people after they blocked traffic during a protest against the increase in controlled rent Board.
Hearings on this issue should go tomorrow, Wednesday, November 29.
About 20 protesters stood in front of the office of Governor Andrew Cuomo 633 Third Ave., chanting: «What do we want? Freeze rents. When? Now.»
When the activists blocked the traffic on 40th Street and Third Avenue and had not complied with the police officers to leave, several people were detained. They were charged with causing public disorder.
As told AMNY meeting organizer Kathy Goldstein, about 26 thousand apartments of new York with a controlled rent expects the fee increase to 7.5 percent. Activists also demand the freezing of the cost.
«It gets harder and harder. You need something to sacrifice. Usually it’s your medicine,» says a resident of the Upper West Side, 86-year-old Norma Schreier, who lives in a flat with controlled rent since 1965. The woman adds that her main source of income is social security. Since 1965, the rent for her apartment increased from 162 dollars to 2600 dollars in 2017.
One of the arrested, Delcenia Glover, says that tenants usually pay from 50 to 80% of their income in rent, and this is absolutely unfair, while apartments with stabilized rent, received the biennial «freezing».
