Communities Resist

Statement from Executive Director Nick E. Smith on the Rent Guidelines Board Voting to Increase Rents for Rent-Stabilized Homes

Date

05.01.25

Category

Press Release

Statement from Executive Director Nick E. Smith on the Rent Guidelines Board Voting to Increase Rents for Rent-Stabilized Homes

With the Rent Guidelines Board voting in favor to increase rents for nearly a million rent-stabilized homes, Communities Resist Executive Director Nick E. Smith released the following statement:

“We are still in the midst of the worst affordable housing crisis in decades. With more New Yorkers already being priced out of their homes, the Rent Guidelines Board voting to again increase rents only worsens this crisis. A rent freeze is absolutely necessary to provide much-needed relief to tenants and ensure they can stay in their homes. I strongly urge the Rent Guidelines Board to reconsider its decision.”

About Communities Resist
Communities Resist (“CoRe”) is a community-based housing legal services and advocacy organization established and led by people of color to empower, educate and represent low-income communities and community coalitions preventing gentrification and displacement. Founded in 2019, CoRe has racked up several impressive wins, stopping nearly 1,000 evictions, filing 4,000+ affirmative litigation cases, engaging more than 8,000 New Yorkers at housing rights workshops and recovering settlements of all sizes for tenants across New York City.“After years of feeling powerless against our abusive landlord who wasn’t providing heat and hot water nor repairing my apartments, my neighbors and I had no other choice than to reach out for help. With the help of our attorney from Communities Resist we were able to organize a Tenant Association and fight back against the abusive landlord. We finally won,” said Ramona Blash of 316 Suydam St. Tenant Association.

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