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Kingston caucus signals support for REST Act changes to tenant protections, asks questions about vacancy-study substitute

3665814 · May 6, 2025
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Summary

The caucus discussed a memorializing resolution supporting state legislation (the 'REST Act') to amend the Emergency Tenant Protection Act, allowing municipalities alternatives to a vacancy study and bringing newer buildings into rent stabilization on a rolling basis.

Members of the City of Kingston Common Council caucus discussed and signaled support for a memorializing resolution backing the REST Act, legislation introduced in Albany that would amend the Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA) of 1974 (as amended in 2019). The caucus did not take a formal vote in caucus but directed support and…

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