Housing Notebook @wbai.org Monday, April 27, 2026 8:00 PM BUILDING POWER FOR A BETTER NEW YORK Tonight we talk with leaders from Community Action for Safe Apartments and their efforts to build a stronger and better New York for all tenants.

For those in CD-10 who think Dan Goldman is a progressive, or good enough liberal, think again. Just another corporate Dem. Vote for @bradlander.bsky.social for a true people's progressive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 3/30 8PM Landlords in the Hudson Valley continue their crusade to eradicate rent and eviction protections, this time suing to nullify the Kingston,NY continuing the Emergency Tenant Protection Act. June Nemon will update us.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 3/23 8P MAKE 'EM PAY! It's time for the wealthy corporations, landlords to pay their fair share. New York's structural budget deficit is due to years of corporate welfare and unjustified tax breaks. The Peoples Plan NYC's Zara Nasir joins us.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 3/16, 2026 8:00 PM Andrea Shapiro, www.metcouncilonhousing.org Director of Programs and Advocacy, has just celebrated ten years at MCH so she's joining us tonight to reflect back on the fight for tenants rights and look forward! She's always looking forward.

Housing Notebook, @wbai.org M 3/2 8 PM "Rabble Rousers," about www.metcouncilonhousing.org Francis Goldin, airing on PBS Ch. 13 in NYC at 10P tonight. We'll chat with those who knew her and carry on her work today to expand community land trusts. @neweconomyproject.bsky.social

Housing Notebook, M 2/16 8:00PM @wbai.org FLEX YOUR TENANT ELECTORAL MUSCLE! Tonight we are joined by Charlie Dibe and Saba Amare who will discuss how tenants can flex their electoral muscle in this critical year of statewide and midterm elections.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 1/26 8:00PM -- WE JUST DONT KNOW WHERE TO START There's just so much going on in the world, we just dont know where to start. We are going a bit off topic tonight to talk about the state of the world and want to hear your thoughts.

Housing Notebook, M 1/19 8:00 PM @WBAI SAVE FULTON ELLIOTT-CHELSEA HOUSES The residents of Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses are battling demolition and privitizaion of their homes. We'll speak with journalist Steve Wishnia and tenant leaders to hear the latest. @Met_Council

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 12/29/25 8:00 PM BUH-BYE Eric Adams HELLO @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 2025 is a wrap! We'll share our thoughts as we exit the Adams era and start the Mamdani years. And what a year 2025 has been. We want to hear from you as well! Tune in.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 12/22 8PM The Kingston Common Council unanimously renewed rent protections. Today, the Mayor vetoed the renewal, jeopardizing the housing of 1200 families. Alderwoman Michele Hirsch and tenant organizer June Nemon bring us the latest.

The way he runs the country he knows we all need to take a toke! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 12/15 8PM La Mesa Verde tenants from Queens join us to discuss their landlord, A&E Real Estate, subjecting them to a broad spectrum of unsafe living conditions including mold, collapsing ceilings, and lead paint.

Housing Notebook, M 12/8 8PM, @wbai.org Tenant Sexually Harassed, Landlord Seeks Eviction. A West Side tenant who alleged sexual harassment by building employees is now at risk of eviction. We'll find out about that and the chaotic situation at the building.

Housing Notebook, @wbai.org M 11/10 8P POST ELECTION WRAP-UP A big night for Democrats and for Freezing the Rent in We'll talk with former NYCCouncil Speaker Christine Quinn, @winnyc.bsky.social President and CEO.

Housing Notebook, M 11/3 8PM @wbai.org CELEBRATING MICHAEL McKEE, the indefatigable tenant leader recently passed away. Michael was our go to Election Day Eve guest. This week on Housing Notebook we celebrate him. @tenantbloc.bsky.social

Housing Notebook, M 10/27 8PM @wbai.org 50 YEAR TENANT BEING EVICTED! Fifty years of paying rent and living by the rules are not always good enough when the landlord wants you out! We'll chat with Dolores Williams as she fights her eviction.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org 10/20 8P. Three ballot proposals re: affordable housing development are on the ballot. @nyccomptroller.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social and NYCCouncil Finance Chair @justinbrannan.bsky.social have differing views on whether they will help. Tune in!

Housing Notebook, M 10/13 8:00 PM @wbai.org Rent and eviction protections in Kingston, NY are in jeopardy as a result of recent machinations by the real estate industry and the Mayor. We'll chat with @michelehirsch.bsky.social to find out what's up.

I have been fortunate to know Tish James since she was a legislative aide in Albany. There is no finer public servant and no person with more integrity. She will not be intimidated by the fascist in the White House. #IstandwithTish

It's October 1st. The federal government may have shut down, but NYC's heat law is now in effect! bit.ly/heathotwater @wbai.org www.metcouncilonhousing.org

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 8/18 8PM Kingston, NY's Mayor is alleging that there is no longer a housing emergency threatening rent stabilization. ForTheMany's Brahvan Ranga Jenna Goldstein will discuss its flaws and biases. @tenantbloc.bsky.social

Housing Notebook, M 8/11 8P @wbai.org while cutting housing assistance and programs combatting homelessness, #POTUS uses the homeless crisis and the (declining) crime rate in DC to take over law enforcment in the District and send the homeless "FAR from the Capital."

Housing Notebook, @wbai.org 8/4 8P POTUS signed an Executive Order targeting street homelessness a mere few months after dismantling the national agency charged coordinating a national plan to house the unhoused. @homeless-law.bsky.social joins to discuss housing not jail!

Housing Notebook M 7/28 8P @wbai.org 266 Kingston tenants scored a major victory last week, stopping their landlord and Mayor from deregulating their apartments; @michelehirsch.bsky.social joins us. www.metcouncilonhousing.org Dominique Hood about what to do when interacting with hcr.ny.gov

Housing Notebook, 7/21/25 8:00 PM @wbai.org GET IN THE GAME WITH MUTUAL AID! Tonight we will talk with Je Butler, the coordinator of the Met Council Mutual Aid Tenant Hotline. Learn how you can join in and help others, and how to be a supportive and encouraging organizer! bit.ly/44Un5dW

Housing Notebook, Monday, June 30, 2025 8:00 Pm WBAI 99.5 FM www.wbai.org RENT GUIDELINES BOARD VOTES! The Rent Guidelines Board votes tonight on the new guideline for over 1 million NYC apartments. We'll have live reports from their meeting.

We live in the Fourth Reich.

Housing Notebook www.wbai.org M 6/2 8P RGB CHANGES COURSE? REMEMBERING TOM ROBBINS. NYC Rent Guidelines Board, adjusted its proposal for rent stabilized tenants. Journalist Gregg B. Smith joins to remember Tom Robbins, iconic New York journalist and WBAI producer/host.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 5/19 8P DC TENANTS ORGANIZE TO BUY THEIR DEVELOPMENT Tenants in DC are on the move to buy their development under DC's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. Park East Affordable Housing Cooperative Project members will join us.

Housing Notebook www.wbai.org M 5/12 8P SUPPORT FOR REST ACT GROWS Now that the State Budget has been passed, efforts to pass legislation in Albany to broaden rent regulations and eviction protections is intensifying. We'll find out more with ForTheMany's Brahvan Ranga

Housing Notebook www.wbai.org Mon 5/5 8P NYC Mayor Eric Adams WANTS TO RAISE YOUR RENT - AGAIN! His handpicked Rent Guidelines Board adopted a preliminary rent guideline that would increase rent for over 1 million New Yorkers at a time when a rent freeze is needed. Tune in!

Looks like www.fsis.usda.gov and #RFKJr could be having a food fight soon. apnews.com/article/poul...

Housing Notebook www.wbai.org M 4/28 8P Uptown Tenants Town Hall and meet www.metcouncilonhousing.org 's Outreach Coordinator Saba Amare. And time for your calls!

Housing Notebook www.wbai.org M 4/21 8P DC SAYS CUT, CUT, CUT TO HOUSING PROGRAMS! #POTUS & #DOGE operatives cutting HUD programs and elsewhere throughout the country that help keep people housed. Tune in for the latest and bring your thoughts and ideas!

Housing Notebook @wbai.org Monday, April 14th, 8:00 PM ET Tonight a special Housing Notebook as we go across the pond and visit with the London Renters Union to learn about their struggle for decent affordable housing and increased rights for tenants.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 4/7 8P FREEZE THE RENT! Rents are rising Kathy Hochul, Eric Adams silent and POTUS attacks housing programs. Rent Guidlines Board is deliberating, tenants demand a rent freeze. We'll talk w/RGB Tenant Member Adan Soultren for the latest.

Housing Notebook M 3/31 8PM www.wbai.org OHEBSHALOM TENANTS FIGHT ON! The tenants of 705 and 709 West 170th Street are not backing down. They were back in court looking to hold their landlord accountable for his life as one of New York's worst landlords.

@mjsdc.bsky.social there's just no beating you!

I have been DOGEd. Phone exploding with calls, labor/management outraged over FMCS gutted. It is not about efficiency, what is best for the public, the economy, the business community or labor. It's about destroying service for the public good. Need a mediator? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 3/24 8P TENANTS TAKEOVER ALBANY Tenants converged on Albany to fight for desperately needed affordable housing programs. Hear their voices, the struggles of evreryday New Yorkers trying to keep a roof over their head.

Housing Notebook WBAI.org 99.5 FM M 3/10 8 PM Save 63 Tiffany! The tenants of 63 Tiffany Place in Brooklyn are fighting for their homes against a landlord who is seeking to cash in at the expense of long term tenants and put them on the street. Hear their story.

Housing Notebook wbai.org M 2/24 As rents soar acorss NYS legislators in Albany introduced legislation to make it less complicated for localities to enact rent regulation and eviction protections. We'll chat with advocates who are organizing for its passage.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org Monday, Feb 10 8:00 PM ARRRRGH! It has been quite the dizzying whirlwind. Lots to digest and discuss with all the attacks on democracy and civil society coming from the White House. And of course your calls and thoughts.

Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 1/27 8P NYC doesn't have an exclusive on bad landlords. We'll talk w/tenants Jersey City who have been without heat and other basic services for months. Report from the REBNY Gala where landlords partied off the profits from their tenants.

Met Council's Housing Notebook @wbai.org 1/13 8P #LAwildfires tenant update w/Coalition for Economic Survival. Also, we'll speak with tenants here in NYC whose landlord is not fixing up their homes after a recent life threatening and devastating fire. www.metcouncilonhousing.org

Met Council on Housing's Housing Notebook www.wbai.org M 1/6 8P @govkathyhochul.bsky.social is proposing to increase expansive power to involuntarily commit people suffering from mental illness, including the unhoused and homeless. We'll talk with Mental Health Assn of NYS CEO to find out more.

Housing Notebook WBAI 99.5 FM www.wbai.org M 12/30 8P YEAR END WRAP UP. Thoughts at the end of the year, and of course some words about Jimmy Carter, only POTUS to have lived in public housing, (not including the White House, the ultimate in public housing). And it is my 40th anniversary on WBAI!

RIP President Carter. Spent an afternoon at the Carter Library back in the late 80s. Want to go back. (And no, they weren't selling these, got this in DC when he was POTUS)

Housing Notebook M 12/23 8 PM @wbai.org ROCHESTER WINS GOOD CAUSE EVICTION! Tenants in Rochester organized and fought and won Good Cause Eviction protections. Lets hear how they did it, and what it means for Rochester's tenants.