Posted on 12/18/2024 5:19:26 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester City Council has passed the Good Cause legislation with a 7-2 vote. Council Vice President LaShay Harris and Councilmember Michael Patterson voted against the measure. Those in favor included Council President Miguel Melendez and Councilmembers Mitch Gruber, Willie Lightfoot, Mary Lupien, Stanley Martin, Bridget Monroe, and Kim Smith.
The legislation includes an amendment from the City-Wide Tenant Union of Rochester that lowers the property size exemption. Only landlords with one unit are exempt from the new legislation ensuring protections apply to nearly all renters. Rent increases are limited to 7.7%.
The move aligns Rochester’s Good Cause with other upstate localities that adopted similar protections after the 2024 New York State budget.
The protections will go into effect for over 100,000 tenants in the city once signed into law by Mayor Malik Evans.
If we get rid of a few million illegals cheap rentals will be plentiful and seeking tenants, it will really mess with owner tenant interactions at the low end of housing.
Isn’t Rochester a democrat hellhole - brimming over with bad ideas? Ideas that look good in the short run - but are a disaster in the long run?
I predict a lot of mysterious “electrical” fires here on out. There is not a lack of “affordable housing,” there is a lack of quality tenants.
What once was common (credit score above 600, no bad landlord references, steady/sufficient income) is now a rare unicorn since the Scamdemic when Pelosi told people to quit their jobs and live off the government.
Correct as with most mid sized cities in Upstate NY.
Rochester has been crashing and burning for decades—this will just continue the trend. The numbers tell the story:
1920 295,750 35.6%
1930 328,132 10.9%
1940 324,975 −1.0%
1950 332,488 2.3%
1960 318,611 −4.2%
1970 296,233 −7.0%
1980 241,741 −18.4%
1990 231,636 −4.2%
2000 219,474 −5.3%
2010 210,565 −4.1%
2020 211,328 0.4%
2023 (est.) 207,274 −1.9%
At this rate in one hundred and fifty years nobody will live there.
:-)
Isn’t Rochester a democrat hellhole - brimming over with bad ideas? Ideas that look good in the short run - but are a disaster in the long run?
YES it is!!!
That's when I move in and take it over!
Yes...It was a great city at one time.....Now it’s a Dem run piece of cr** run for and by Dems and blacks.
The current mayor is an Obama lookalike.
My mom was in a sh!thole hospital there in 2023. That city was a sty. It used to be beautiful back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The Flower City (after it was the Flour City, I think).
I was born and lived there until 1975...It was wonderful. I’m 80...had the best schools, buses to the beach, fishing in the bay, Neisners, Woolworths, Sibleys and the Beautiful Theater with brass rails and red carpets. Life was good.
Cities population changes over the decades...
Butte, MT:
As of the 2022 census, Butte, Montana has a population of over 36,000, marking a recent increase not seen since the mid-1980s. The city was historically larger, with a peak population of around 100,000 in the early 1900s.
In fact in the late 1890’s it was nicknamed ‘Little Paris.’
Buffalo is similar. It reached its zenith of importance around the 1905.
Its population grew until the mid 1960s. The started to decline as everyone moved out of the cities and into the suburbs.
I grew up in Orchard Park, NY. Two of the kids/families across the street had moved to the suburbs because the city of Buffalo became a BAD PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY. I remember when the kid next door told me a black kid(he used a different word) had stolen his bike off their front porch. They moved from the east side of Buffalo to Orchard Park soon after. They were Polish. Their ancestors had emigrated there in the late 1800s. The Blacks moved into the neighborhood and eventually all the white people moved out. I witnessed the decline of this city in person. I had neighbors who worked at Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna, NY making $35/hour in the 1970s. A few years later the steel mill closed. I moved away in 1985 to NH. All of my other siblings moved away too. As did almost all of the friends I grew up with. I have a few cousins still there, but that is it.
I actually just watched a YouTube video this morning about the rise and fall of Buffalo. Which at one point was the 18th largest city in the USA. It had a larger population than San Francisco in the 1960s.
The video also showed all the beautiful Victorian and other grand buildings that had been built there around the turn of the century from the late 1800s to early 1900s.
It was a major trade port at one point. First with the start of the Erie Canal and then with the railroads. This was because all the lake boats had to unload in Buffalo. Until the Canadians built the Welland Canal to Lake Ontario.
Plus, Buffalo had the most modern electrical generation plant in the world back when a young scientist/inventor named Tesla built a plant at Niagara Falls for George Westinghouse.
Buffalo was a huge manufacturing center. It was a big union town. It all went to SH#T in the 1960s/70s.
Buffalo’s population declined until just recently. In the last few years it has increased 6%. According to this video I watched. Maybe, because you could buy a house there for about half what it costs in other major cities.
However, there is still a huge unemployment problem in the city. Along with it about 40% of the children are below the poverty line.
I assume Butte boomed because of mining or oil?
A lot of cities/towns boomed out west because of gold/silver mines and then died when the mines/oil ran out.
Telluride, CO is a classic example of this. Now, of course it is one of the best ski area towns in the country/world.
Maybe some day Charleston, WV will come back. It is certainly depressed now. It is literally one of the least expensive cities in the USA now. Yet, it is relatively close to other major US cities and attractions.
You just need to get the people off of drugs.
Our state recently decided to allow renters to have an eviction expunged from court records and ALSO provide free legal help to guide them through the expungement process. So now a potential landlord is completely unable to see a potential renter’s history. Unbelievable. 🙄
Same here. Eviction records have been sealed by Cuomo and Tish James in 2019. “Clean Slate” Act went through so you can’t discriminate on CRIMINAL records, either.
“now a potential landlord is completely unable to see a potential renter’s history.”
The market will react in several ways.
—Rents will need to be higher to offset the increased risk of deadbeat or other bad tenants
—Landlords will hesitate to upgrade properties in those markets
—(and the most subtle effect of all) Potential new landlords will choose not to invest in those areas
The long term effect will be the gradual degradation of the stock of rental housing.
We just can’t seem to stop protecting people from their own decisions, can we? 😒
I’ve been told small claims judgments will be next to be expunged.
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