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Advocates, residents press council to back state reforms to freeze rents for seniors and disabled tenants
Summary
Tenants' groups, Legal Aid and Mitchell‑Lama residents urged the City Council to support a resolution asking the state to retroactively freeze SCRIE/DRIE rents, raise eligibility income caps and change income calculations for seniors and tenants with disabilities.
Advocates and residents at a City Council joint hearing on Oct. 29 urged the council to support state legislation that would change how the SCRIE and DRIE rent‑freeze programs protect low‑income seniors and people with disabilities.
Genesis Aquino of New York State Tenants & Neighbors told the committees that her organizations strongly support the council resolution (listed in testimony as resolution 9‑85) calling on the State Legislature to retroactively freeze the rent at the level the SCRIE enrollee paid when first eligible or at the level two years before program entry. "Retroactively freezing the rent at the level the SCRIE enrollee pays when they first became eligible…
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