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CityAndStateNY.com
January 17, 2022
protests and rallies from activists, lawmakers did not approve the legislation.
“In City Hall, everyone is learning the Eric Adams system.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an extention to the eviction moratorium in September, but it expired on Jan. 15. Now some tenants are left to wonder, what will happen next?
EVICTIONS ARE BACK ON THE MENU
On Jan. 15, the statewide eviction moratorium enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic officially came to an end after Gov. Kathy Hochul declined to extend it, and lawmakers did not
take action themselves. That means that a long backlog of eviction cases around the state can begin to proceed, and tenants who were facing imminent eviction prior to the pandemic may find themselves without a home since landlords can now enforce vacate
– New York City Mayor Eric Adams, talking about his management style, which included a recent Zoom meeting where he made everyone do breathing exercises at the beginning, via Gothamist
notices. Tenant advocates had hoped the state Legislature would have passed the good cause eviction bill before the moratorium ended, which would restrict the reasons that landlords could kick people out, in hopes that it would help people remain in their homes. But despite
SCHOOL’S OUT After weeks – even months, years – of parents, lawmakers, educators and unions fighting over the best way to conduct school in the middle of a pandemic, the kids are seizing the mic. Students at Brooklyn Technical High School staged a walkout last week to call for a remote learning option as the omicron variant of COVID-19 continued to overwhelm the city.
“He can’t move on.” – Andrew Cuomo’s attorney, Rita Glavin, on the former governor’s perceived unfair treatment following numerous allegations of sexual harrassment, via The New York Times
In one of their first acts of the new year, state lawmakers from both parties resoundingly rejected both sets of partisan redistricting maps, sending them back to the Independent Redistricting Commission to make changes. The commission has about two weeks to revise the maps, and hopefully come to a bipartisan agreement on a single set, which they were originally tasked with doing. Realistically, the prospect seems unlikely given the professional animosity between the Democratic and Republican commissioners that characterized the end of their work and was apparent during their final public meeting, with both sides blaming the other for perceived intransigence. If the Legislature rejects the maps the commission sends them a second time, then the task falls to the Democratic lawmakers to draw new district lines themselves, allowing them to engage in gerrymandering the commission was designed to avoid if they so choose. Although the state Senate did approve some things in their first full days of the session, including confirming new Court of Appeals Justice Shirley Troutman and passing a package of voting reform bills.
MIKE GROLL/OFFICE OF GOV. KATHY HOCHUL; ERIC ADAMS CAMPAIGN; GLAVIN PLLC; MICHAEL APPLETON/OFFICE OF MAYORAL PHOTOGRAPHY
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
