On the Next Represent NYC: Affordable Housing with NYC Councilman Mark Levine

In the past decade, median apartment rents in New York City rose by 75 percent, compared to 44 percent in the rest of the United States. At the same time, the City is losing affordable housing units at an alarming rate*.

On the next episode of "Represent NYC," NYC District 7 Councilman Mark Levine talks with Rodrigo Sanchez-Camus, Supervising Attorney at Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation; Adriene Holder, Attorney-in-Charge at The Legal Aid Society, Civil Practice; and Larry Wood a Community Organizer at Goddard Riverside Community Center about key issues that impact access to affordable housing, including the availability of civil legal services in Housing Court and succession of rent control and rent-regulated apartments.

Watch "Represent NYC" Sunday, May 10 at 7:00 pm and Wednesday May 13 at 9:00 pm on MNN1 (TWC 34 & 1995, RCN 82, FiOS 33 or streaming live)!

Resources referenced in this episode of "Represent NYC" include:

• Real Rent Reform, a coalition of community based organizations, labor unions, tenant associations, legal support and political clubs working together for safe, stable, and affordable housing for New Yorkers.
• Tenants & Neighbors, a grassroots organization that helps tenants build and effectively wield their power to preserve at-risk affordable housing and strengthen tenants' rights in New York.
• Right to Counsel Coalition, which is made up of tenant organizing groups, tenant advocates, law schools and legal services organizations that work together to ensure that our city’s housing courts are a place of fairness, justice and equity

*Source: THE GROWING GAP: New York City’s Housing Affordability Challenge