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Advocate urges tenant seats on housing task force be filled by renters, not advocates
Summary
During council public comment on the legislative agenda, a resident urged that the city's housing stability task force include actual tenants in its two designated tenant seats and match landlord representation with tenant representation.
Ellie Pepper told the Schenectady City Council Monday that two designated tenant seats on the city's housing stability task force must be filled by current tenants, not tenant advocates. "The tenant seats must go to people who are living the realities of our rental housing system," Pepper said during the public-comment period addressing the legislative…
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