Catching Landlords in Inaccurate Reporting

Ritchie Torres, New York City Council Member and Chair of the Council’s Committee on Oversight and Investigations, and Aaron Carr, founder and executive director of the Housing Rights Initiative, discuss a new report that used public records to find where the city failed to note that landlords did not accurately report information about the presence of rent-protected tenants in their building.

.@RitchieTorres: "The state rent stabilization law is riddled with loopholes that are meant to favor the real estate industry, and unless we close them in the next legislative session, those problems are going to persist. The harassment ... the displacement will persist."

— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) September 25, 2018

Carr says one of mayor's biggest mistakes was not overhauling enforcement system before launching $83 billion housing plan. "It's like a ship with a hole at the bottom of it."

— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) September 25, 2018