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Paula Pant
@AffordAnything
🎙️Afford Anything Podcast, 45M listens 🎥 Netflix: Get Smart with Money 🎓 Fellow @Columbia Biz/Econ Reporting 🗽Start here ➡️ affordanything.com/rent
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    Paula Pant
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    Jul 8
    Breakdown of the NYC rent stabilization law starts around the 40-minute mark, and it's nuanced. I'm an analyst, not an advocate. I value data over dogma. And a deeply-researched, fact-based look at the NYC rent freeze points to only one rational conclusion: it is terrible for
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    Paula Pant
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    In 2019, New York passed a law called the HSTPA -- the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act. It prevents landlords from being able to raise the rent enough to recoup the cost of renovations. As a result, it's literally cheaper to keep apartments vacant. Here's what
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    Paula Pant
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    Aug 10
    The problem with the discussion around rent is that math quickly turns into moral judgment. For the sake of argument, let's assume that every landlord is some cartoonish Montgomery Burns (Simpsons) / Carter Pewterschmidt (Family Guy) character. What then? If the math is such