HOUSING
FOR THE MANY.

Good Cause Eviction would give millions of tenants the right to a renewal lease and protect against predatory rent increases and unfair evictions. In 2024, we passed a statewide version of the law, but landlords and real estate developers succeeded at weakening it—so we’re organizing to protects as many tenants as possible by passing local versions of the law. Local Good Cause—which we’ve passed in Kingston and Poughkeepsie—can provide unprecedented protections for renters, creating a more stable housing market, promoting community well-being, and rewarding landlords who follow the rules.

Good Cause Eviction will put power back in the hands of tenants across New York, one municipality at a time.

The Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA) gives municipalities the power to regulate rents and establish rent stabilization, a critical tool for keeping housing affordable and communities stable. Right now, only 41 localities in New York have rent stabilization, while 60% of the state’s rental units are unregulated. Reforming ETPA would make it easier for municipalities to opt into the law and would expand the number of buildings covered by it, providing protections to millions more tenants statewide. ❡ Expanding ETPA will protect tenants from exorbitant rent increases and keep our communities affordable.

New York needs more affordable housing, now and for the long-term. Establishing a statewide Social Housing Development Authority would create a new purpose for the housing market: to provide people with homes, not to line the pockets of corporate landlords and real estate developers. By giving the state capacity to acquire distressed real estate assets, rehabilitate them, and transfer these buildings from the private real estate market to communities’ control, we can ensure all New Yorkers have a safe, stable home.

The New York Social Housing Development Authority (SHDA) would build and maintain affordable housing outside the for-profit real estate market and expand opportunities for people to access stable housing.

Vacation rentals (like AirBnbs and Vrbos) play a significant role in limiting our housing stock and driving up rents, home prices, and property taxes. Absentee investors are buying up huge swaths of our housing stock and turning them into vacation rentals for tourists instead of renting or selling to long-term Hudson Valley residents.

We’re fighting to pass laws locally that will tackle this issue head-on—and we’re winning. Kingston has already passed a law that requires short-term rental hosts to prove that their listing is their primary residence, and Poughkeepsie is soon to follow. Municipalities will be able to issue hefty fines to absentee hosts and platforms for listings that violate the law.

The Housing Access Voucher Program creates a rental assistance program for New Yorkers who are currently homeless or at risk of homelessness, including undocumented New Yorkers and those who are not currently on public assistance.

The Housing Access Voucher Program will help end homelessness in New York state. 

The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act would give tenants the right of first refusal if their landlord decides to sell their building, letting tenants buy the building together and own it as a cooperative, turn the building into publicly owned housing, or work with a nonprofit to create a permanently affordable rental. The law would also help tenants fight for better conditions in the buildings they currently live in by reducing the incentive for landlords to keep buildings in disrepair to sell them off to the highest buyer.