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That 40k number is flat out wrong. "But even in Manhattan, nearly half of all rental apartments are rent-stabilized." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/reales
by harryh 13y ago
That 40k number is flat out wrong.
"But even in Manhattan, nearly half of all rental apartments are rent-stabilized."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/realestate/rent-stabilized-apartments-ever-more-elusive.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/realestate/rent-stabilized...
- itp 13y agoWithout getting in the middle of this, I'd just point out that you're both right -- roughly 38k rent controlled units, about one million rent stabilized units. Apparently there's a difference! http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html#difference http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html#d...
- busterarm 13y agoWe're talking about two different things here. I'm talking specifically about rent control. I know what I'm talking about, I live(d) in a rent controlled apartment since birth.
- harryh 13y agoBut that's not what the OP was talking about. He was surely using the phrase "rent control" in its colloquial sense.