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Then there is Laurence Gluck and what he did to the Mitchell Lama developement which was privatized in 2004. All because Bloomberg allowed him to repay his J-51 tax benifits. Gluck is also responsible for unlawfully deregulating more then 1,300 affordable apartments at the Independence Plaza North, a complex of Mitchell Lama. Gluck decided to sell when the housing boom went bust as a result of all the forclosures in 2007 a direct result of the speculating on which people would be unlucky enough to lose their homes; they were a set of investments put together in packages called derivitives. Developers skirt the law with the help of Bloomberg, Pataki etc. but who cares? Mitchell Lama was started by the insurance company Met Life during world war two to help returning soldiers and their families. Then Met Life got greedy and conspired along with Bloomberg and Pataki. So any affordable, low income housing will probably end up the same way as either high end luxury apts. or condos only the ultra wealthy like Bloomberg can afford. Where does that leave the little guy? It's almost like David vs Goliath. In the mean time I'm freezing.

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Low income affordable housing isn't being built. Any tenants organizations/advocates are only helping people in their own communities not outsiders. Whatever rent control/stabilized housing remains is being deregulated or has been deregulated thanks to Bloomberg and former Gov. George Pataki when they assisted in the illegal deregulation of apts. in buildings receiving assistance under the J-51 tax abatement program helping real estate developer Tishman Speyer Properties in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Villiage, HPD refused to enforce the laws as written.

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This is a scam this is what they do; they get together, several parties form a corporation or holding company buy buildings and make it impossible for the tenant to know who the real owner or owners are, pull all kinds of underhanded deals so the tenant has no protection. They make sure of it.

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These buildings have multiple people listed as owner. The loans taken by the then owner in limited partnership are evidenced by a mortage from April 16, 1974. This loan and mortage agreemant subjected the buildings to the N.Y.C rent control law not the rent stabilization law code these later statutes did not control the subject premises at the time of their stabilization in April 1974. So now I don't know what to think. If these buildings aren't rent stabilized and never were, but rent controlled and that ended after the (PHFL) loan and J-51 tax abatement ended in 1995-96; if I wasn't informed of any of this by owner and not in lease can I use this to keep from being evicted if I try and complain? What if someone is disabled are they protected from eviction? I always thought that once a building stops being rent controlled it then automatically becomes rent stabilized. Those monsters knew what they were doing they really screwed us over, they continue to steamroll over anything and everyone who gets in their way. They always get what they want. I'm in tenant legal limbo, tenant hell. I don't know what my rights, if any are. I can't call 311 unless I can know that I'm protected by either being disabled or by ignorance because I didn't know anything about what they did or were doing since they never bothered to inform me (or both).

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I've been been here since the buildings were first renovated in 1975. I don't know what my status as a tenant is. I am paying rent and live in or exist on these premises, and continue to dwell here. He stopped giving leases in and around 1997. I never knew until 2007 about the J-51 tax abatement/exemption, and only began to understand what it meant: Rent stabilization are apts. in buildings of 6 or more units built before Feb. 1, 1947 and Jan. 1, 1974. Tenants who moved in after June 30, 1971 are also covered by rent stabilization. A third catagory involves buildings with 3 or more apts. built or extensively renovated since 1974 with special tax benifits generally. These buildings are stabilized only while the tax benifits continue. All 3 buildings became vacant of tenancies between 1974-1975 and were substantially rehabilitated as family units after Jan. 1, 1974. There were certificates of occupancy for each of the buildings issued Dec. 30, 1975 after completion of the rehabilitation. Each of the 3 buildings underwent a complete rehabilitation which was completed in 1975 which, but for Public Housing Finance Loans (PHFL), and later,J-51 tax abatements would place these buildings out of regulated status. The loan had been paid off and the tax abatements have ended and it was DHCR's understanding that the instant application is required pursuant to Public Housing Finance Law section 405 for decontrol of the subject premices.

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These people circumvent the laws and use it to their advantage. They vote in blocks to get who they want in and then get people like Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Gov. George Pataki to give them what they want. I desperately need repairs, and I'm freezing. They provide heaters to those monsters attending the yeshiva as well as hot meals; but I have to freeze. The system to put it diplomaticly, is a complete failure, it fails to protect it's most vulnerable, there is no help. Public Advocate Bill DiBlasio he's a joke, doesn't respond.