City-Wide Tenant Union of Rochester

Tenant Union's Platform for Statewide Housing Justice

+ Good Cause Eviction Protections (S3082/A5573): protections from eviction without a cause

• All people deserve safe and stable housing. But right now in New York State, a tenant can be evicted for any reason: a loophole that is often used to evict families in retaliation for fighting for decent living conditions.
• The right to remain would keep families in their homes and help them organize for the living conditions they deserve. It would protect tenants from exorbitant rent increases – as good as an eviction.

+ Housing Access Voucher Program (S280A/A3701)

• We can eliminate homelessness in New York State. It is unconscionable that in one of the wealthiest states in the county, we have more than 92,000 New Yorkers without a home. We are fighting to house every New Yorker permanently and sustainably.

+Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) (Myrie/Mitaynes) (S3157/A5971)

• We are fighting for housing for people, not for profit. Social housing is protected from the private market, democratically controlled by residents, and is the only housing that is capable of solving the homelessness crisis.