"ESPADA MUST GO!" angry tenants serve Pedro Espada "EVICTION NOTICE" @ Albany sit-in 4/27/10

[marzettaharris930]

the people at NWBCC should all get jobs. The next time youall go to albany i would like 50 dollars too. Trinidad you criminal record speaks fpor itself

[gmcbuses]

Espada is a fraud scum bum. All he did was represent the rich landlords. Chair of housing committee. He failed to take leadership to abolish vacancy decontrol, rent reform, which provide holes where landlords register false rates at DHCR. Fraud. Fraud should never have a statue of limitations.

[gmcbuses]

Senator Espada has reneged when it comes to carrying out democratic issues. He is really a Republican. Was against more money going to mass transit. Failed to provide leadership to stop Patersons mass transit cuts.

[Suzannahartist]

Powerful work! He belongs in jail and I wish we could make him back back the tax payers for every way he has found to rip'em off.

[gmcbuses]

@Suzannahartist Senator Espada is really carrying the Republican agenda. He failed to provide leadership on stopping Vacancy decontrol, luxury decontrol, and stopping Patersons mass transit cuts. Rent control needs to be returned. In each neighborhood there should be a ceiling what a landlord can charge. Crooked landlords have lots of ways to do fraud with the current rent stabilization laws. DHCR does not check to make sure if it is true the numbers landlords put there. They put fake turnovers.

[gmcbuses]

@gmcbuses Landlords at DHCR register people that do not exist to make it look like a apartment turned over more than it did to get higher rents. Rent stabilization has lots of holes for landlords to do fraud. Government is encouraging landlords to charge more not less. Section 8 should stop paying towards rents that are unaffordable to the working poor. That will make landlords to lower rents. Someone on disability in a luxury building, while someone working not qualifying for it is homeless.

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses Blah, blah, blah. Why do you think everyone else owes you a living? If you don't respect private ownership, go live in North Korea.

[gmcbuses]

@hoochee003 What are you talking about. Landlords should not be allowed to register fraud at DHCR. Government needs to encourage landlords to charge less not more, by refusing to pay outlandish rents for people on section8, that are unaffordable to the working poor. That will make landlords lower rents. Srict rent control has to be put back on. Each neighborhood should have a number landlords cannot lawfully charge above. That will insure rents are kept affordable to the working poor.

[gmcbuses]

@gmcbuses It is great these 2 bums are out. Their frauds.Espada, Hiram Monserette are suppose to be democrates, but are really Republicans. Their sentiments are really with the rich well to do. They have failed to show leadership to stop Patersons mass transit cuts, to get Assembly woman Rosenthal"s bill passed to ban luxury decontrol. landlords should pay their mortgages off over a period of 13 years, not 3.

[hoochee003]

I am sure you would like to put everyone who disagrees with you in a Soviet-style gulag.

[gmcbuses]

@hoochee003 Those that disagree with me are evil. Gentrification is evilification.

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses Those who disagree with you are evil? Isn't that what every dictator says?

[gmcbuses]

@hoochee003 A dictator wants to hurt people that are poor. That is you.

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses A dictator does not try to engage people with other viewpoints in open dialogue, answer every email, and so on.

[gmcbuses]

@hoochee003 If it was up to me the greedy landlords, would all be thrown in jail for rent gouging.

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses It's called a free market. If you don't like it, try North Korea.

[gmcbuses]

@hoochee003 With apartment rent there should not be a free market. Strict rent control has to be put on, to maintain affordibility.

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses New York City is an expensive place to live. Wouldn't people who have lower incomes feel more comfortable living somewhere else, because then their dollars would have more buying power?

[gmcbuses]

@hoochee003 No. New York is a city, that needs to enact stict rent control for everybody, as the current rent stabilization laws are a joke, full of loopholes. DHCR is crooked, as they do not check to make sure rates landlords are registering are true. They allow fraud to be registered there. To maintain affordible rent, each neighborhood should have a number, that landlords cannot raise rents above that number. 7 neighborhoods in each borough should have rents affordible to the working poor.

[gmcbuses]

@gmcbuses Luxury decontrol, Vacancy decontrol needs to be outlawed. 4 neighborhoods in each bourough should have rents at 525 a month, for a 1 bedroom apartment. 3 neighborhoods should have rents at 575 for a 1 bedroom apartment. Half of other neighborhoods in each borough 790. Remainder in each bourough 1,050. 2 neighborhoods in each boruough 1,800 a month.

[gmcbuses]

@gmcbuses Get rents cheaper, living expenses, there will be way less crime. To get taxes cheaper, there should be layed off 7,000 police officers. when it comes to crime drugs is the big problem, kid punk gangs. Narcotics, Anti gun, Anti gang, Juvinile units, should have 1,000 more officers assigned to them. Gettos have the biggest crime . 500 additional officers should be assigned to patrol gettos. People on welfare should get, a 300 dollar increase in cash so they will lesslikely do crime.

[gmcbuses]

@gmcbuses The gettos in New York City, there for sure rents, should not be more than 525 for a 1 bedroom apartment. Harlem, Inwood, Washington heights, South Bronx, Soundview, Morrisana, Lower East side, Alphabet City, Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, New lots, Bedford Stuyvessant, Brighton, Jamaica Queens, 7 poorest neighborhoods of Staten Island.

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses Some of those places are being gentrified. The rest could be leveled. New York is a financial capital of the world. It should look like one.

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses Rudy Giuliani had the winning formula for busting crime: Draconian measures. Turning Manhattan into a gated community, with passes for tourists, will bring crime down as it has for palm desert. Tourists should buy passes rather than paying hotel taxes.

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses It sounds like you want to create incentives for poor people to live in a high cost city like New York. But given the high costs (e.g., maintenance, heating oil), why would a landlord maintain a building?

[hoochee003]

@gmcbuses Renters have no incentive to care about the building. They don't own it. They can walk away. At least 50% of the occupants in a building should own their apartment or condo.

[gmcbuses]

@hoochee003 No I disagree. If a deal was made with renters to forego rent increases, or not as much of a increase in exchange for doing some documented work, they would.

[hoochee003]

If a landlord and renter freely entered a contract that stipulated that there should be no or low rent increases, that contract should be enforced to the fullest extent of the law. The USA is a nation of laws. It is not Pakistan.

[gmcbuses]

@hoochee003 The problem is anyone coming to New York, now is being denied affordible housing. Number 2 DHCR does not check to make sure with landlords are registering our true. Landlords put fraud there. If it is not checked in 4 years, judges go for the fraud put there.

[CloeBuckingham]

You think many people belongs in gaol who disagrees with you. Might you have something in common with Joseph Stalin?

[zhyma99]

This was fantastic, sorry I couldn't be there, I hope Espada  get the message.

[RighteousResolve]

Bravo!

Put Espada in a cell next to Joe Bruno.

[PACC11205]

Oh OK!!!! Our organizers are toward the end, in the green shirts and bandannas...so glad you captured this! I hope Espada, took heed to the eviction notice.

: )

[peasuvmynd]

Great job, Sandi.

[MightyZoom]

Excellent. Good luck all.