Ellen Davidson

Staff Attorney at @legalaidnyc
She/Her

[Council Member Pierina Sanchez @CMPiSanchez]

We need a #CityForAll. Today, I am proud to call for a housing action plan centering our most vulnerable. Zoning reform must be paired with bold investments. Alongside @NYCSpeakerAdams, my colleagues, and advocates, we are putting forth solutions that leave the status quo behind.

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

Today, the NYC Council announced ‘City for All,’ a holistic housing plan for all New Yorkers.

Here’s what we’re most excited about:

✅ More tenant protection vouchers to keep people in their homes
✅ Funding for AHTP to ensure that tenants are in housing without bad conditions
✅ Funding to make repairs for NYCHA tenants
✅ Funding to repair empty NYCHA apartments and move in new tenants

These plans will help our city thrive by stabilizing our communities. We look forward to working with the Council to deliver justice to our clients and low-income New Yorkers in all boroughs.

Learn more about the City Council's proposed housing solutions here: https://t.co/WGxbibLLcu

[PowHerNY @PowherNY]

Housing justice is a women's rights issue -- women headed households & women of color are more likely to be renters & face eviction. During our #PowHerTheVote panel this week, Cea Weaver of @Housing4AllNY spoke about bringing renters & women to the polls for #HousingJustice.

[The NYS Tenant Bloc @TenantBloc]

NEW: NYC landlord lobby groups are merging. And they have one goal: raising our rent.

Despite its innocent name, the New York Apartment Association's true agenda is protecting real estate profits at the expense of working families.

[David Brand @DavidFBrand]

Carolina Tejeda was getting rental assistance from a NYS program after serious car crash injuries kept her out of work

But then ~$1,200/mo disability made her too “rich” to qualify for the rent aid

Now she faces eviction from a $1,254/mo Bronx apartment https://t.co/mwII2WtVMD

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @Car_Free_USA]

I think the U.S is the only nation in the world that zones 80% or more of its cities single family residential where not even a cafe is allowed.

[Nick Berghall @nickberghall]

Many NY tenants can fight rent increases and evictions as Good Cause takes full effect. We are already wielding this new law in eviction court and you can too!

https://t.co/Y39CmTGINs

[Linda B. Rosenthal “the #OriginalRosenthal” @LindaBRosenthal]

Fact: The words “affordable housing” have been mentioned more in four days at the #DNC than in the four years that Donald Trump was president.

We’re not going back! 👊

#DNC2024CHICAGO

[The NYS Tenant Bloc @TenantBloc]

Tenants statewide won't be stopped!!

[David Brand @DavidFBrand]

Landlords are registering tens of thousands of additional rent-stabilized apartments with New York’s housing agency than in recent years after the state imposed tougher penalties for failing to comply

@alykatzz @THECITYNY

https://t.co/5pqgTefjyr

[Jessica González-Rojas (votejgr.bsky.social) @votejgr]

Deeply unfortunate. But the Mayor can't supersede what we do in Albany even if he tries often.

This is why we must fund the Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP) next year.

[Ellen Davidson @ebdavidson199]

@emma_a_whitford @CityLimitsNews @aditalwar Emma you will be missed. Your reporting on the housing beat has been essential reading for us all.

[The NYS Tenant Bloc @TenantBloc]

Criminalizing homelessness won’t solve the crisis.

Keeping rents low + housing our homeless neighbors will.

This SCOTUS decision is cruel. But our fight for homes for all continues.

[Ellen Davidson @ebdavidson199]

@MarkMNYC @DavidFBrand @SandyforCouncil @NYCHousing The state law was not thrown out. What was thrown out was a Department of State's interpretation of a state law on application fees and whether or not application fees could mean broker fees.

[The NYS Tenant Bloc @TenantBloc]

Albany has set the standard, passing the strongest #GoodCause in NYS and closing @GovKathyHochul's loopholes.

This is just the beginning: tenants are organizing across the state to bring #GoodCause to their cities. We won't stop until everyone has a safe, stable home.

[NYS Assemblymember Gabriella A. Romero @AMRomero109]

WOW! Albany Common Council just opted into Good Cause Eviction protections, the FIRST in New York!! TYSM to those that moved for this in the NYS Legislature (@housing4allNY @UTAlbany + many others). For ALBANY, small landlord = ONE (1) unit, giving max protections to tenants.

[Emma Whitford @emma_a_whitford]

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA)!

Good excuse as any to dig into Tim Collins' intro to the Rent Guidelines Board and Rent Stabilization System: https://t.co/zoBtHW4GIj

Here's a nugget:

[David Brand @DavidFBrand]

“If I hadn’t come across this TikTok video, I would have just settled for the 18% increase because there’s nothing cheaper out there. Or I would have just moved altogether"

20+ tenants shared their post-Good Cause experiences with me for @WNYC-@Gothamist https://t.co/lgisPLesQY