Join the battle to Repeal Vacancy Decontrol. The 2010 legislative session is already underway. Tenants Pac believes that the rent laws must be renewed in 2010 (the rent and coop laws expire in 2011) and vacancy decontrol must be repealed in 2010 in order to preserve rent regulated housing, New York's largest stock of affordable housing. While Democrats now have the narrowest of majorities in the State Senate, we need to pressure our friends in the Senate to pass pro-tenant legislation.

In 2009, Tenants Pac joined with Housing Here and Now and the Real Rent Reform Campaign, two large coalitions of tenant, housing, labor and faith groups, to lobby Albany on the repeal of vacancy decontrol. This work involved door-knocking and phone banking in the districts of Republican and Democratic Senators who do not support our legislation, plus regular bus and van trips to Albany to convince the State Senate to vote on bills that had already been passed early in the year by the State Assembly.

This work will continue through the 2010 legislative session. Please join us: come to Albany, volunteer for phone banking or door knocking, and contribute money to support the transportation costs. Go to Contact Us or Events to help.