Tenant advocacy groups and pro-landlord organizations found themselves united in their mutual disdain for a reported state budget housing deal.
Advocates reacted to several published reports on Friday highlighting the details of a likely housing deal between Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Reaching an agreement that both boosts housing production and provides tenants with more safeguards has been perhaps the biggest stumbling block to passing a state spending plan, which is now two weeks past its April 1 deadline this year.
