“Ellenville Thumbs Its Nose at Freedom of Information
Law; Activist Landlord Dies”
- Reprinted from N. Y. Property Rights Clearinghouse,
Vol. 8, No. 4 (PRFA, Fall 2004)
“Mayor Bloomberg’s Rules Attack Landlords
and Small Businesses”
- PRFA, Summer 2004
New York City’s new lead poisoning rules peg landlords
as guilty unless proven innocent. The City’s new
awning rules were put on hold because ninety percent of awnings
would have been illegal. The tradition of newsstands is targeted
by a “crackdown on street furniture.”
“Appellate Court Voids North Hempstead’s
Rental Data Requirement” - PRFA,
Winter 2004
The court held that the town could not require that landlords
provide data about tenants was not allowed because it violated
the tenants constitutional right to privacy.
See Also
Essential Books
& Publications
Publication
Order Form
City Journal
Indispensable quarterly about
the economics, politics, and life of New York City
Published by the Manhattan Institute
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10017(212) 599-7000
The Ecology of Housing Destruction
By Peter D. Salins, Chairman,
Dept. of Urban Affairs
Hunter College, City University of New York
New York University Press for the
International Center for Economic Policy Studies (1980)
Salins illuminated how existing public policies and regulations
that were meant to assist have helped destroy New York’s
housing. At the time of publication in 1980, 200,000 apartments
had been destroyed within a decade. The subsequent loss of housing
stock in New York City can largely be explained by his treatise.
“How Subsidized Housing Keeps the Poor Down” Book review by Carol W. LaGrasse, April
9, 2005
Review of: America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake-The
Failure of American Housing Policy
By Howard Husock (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago 2003)
Additional Helpful
Organizations
American Association of Small Property
Owners, F. Patricia Callahan,
President
(Connects hundreds of associations of small landlords and other
property owners throughout the country)
address
Homeowners Against Rent Kontrols
(HARK), Adrian R. Tiemann, Ph. D.,
President
(Association of small landlords in New York City)
address
Institute for Justice
(a non-profit legal
foundation that defends freedom, is representing property owners
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and other areas where
cities are using eminent domain to take property from small businesses
and homeowners to transfer it to their private businesses, such
as hotels and upscale stores.)
address
Additional Resources
“Citizens Strategies
for Defending Private Property Rights”
A short manual with key points on organizing effectively, published
by PRFA (Positions on Property,
Vol. 6. No. 1)
Please send $3.00 postage and handling to
PRFA, P. O. Box 75, Stony Creek, NY 12878
Websites
Manhattan Institute
for Public Policy Research
Manhattan Institute
is a think tank whose mission is to develop and disseminate new
ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.
www.manhattan-institute.org
American Association of
Small Property Owners
www.aaspo.org
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In-Depth Information
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- “Committee
on Open Government Assists LaGrasse FOIL Request” -
By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, Dec. 29, 2003)
Records of citations of rental properties were sought after
small landlords in Ellenville complained to PRFA about numerous
petty citations. The Village of Ellenville imposed a $300 “administrative
fee” in addition to the statutory 25 cents per copy
charge.
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- “Paul T. Johnson’s
Commentaries”
Infringements on the rights of small landlords in Ellenville,
N.Y., by Paul T. Johnson, an owner of rental properties (printed
by permission).
- Latest: Ellenville
village administrators seen “patting themselves on the back
for how good they made out , cashwise, from a slew of tickets
after a recent snowstorm.” Trouble was, the Village issued
tickets before the lawful grace period of 24 hours to shovel
snow off sidewalks was up. - Letter
to the Editor, Paul T. Johnson, February 10, 2004.
- More Commentaries
on Infringements on the Rights of Small Landlords
Complete compilation of sixteen commentaries on the ironies
and travails of dealing with government officials who regulate
rental properties, as experienced by professional writer Paul
T. Johnson, a small landlord in Ellenville, N.Y. Topics include:
official giggling at possible police entry of unoccupied units,
using “blight” declaration to intimidate
poorer property owner, annual safety inspection squeeze, “junk”
vehicle fines with inadequate notice, and more.
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 “Behind Rent
Control: Property Rites and Economic Wrongs” - Adrian R. Tiemann, Ph. D.,
President, HARK, Homeowners Against Rent Kontrols, Schenectady,
N.Y., from Proceedings of the Third Annual N.Y. Conf. on Private
Property Rights (PRFA 1998)
Ms. Tiemann documents how the wealthy disproportionately occupy
rent controlled units, how politicians and bureaucrats benefit
from the system, and how the losses and bankruptcies that landlords
experience impact income taxes collected by the State, and are
passed along to upstate, as well as urban, taxpayers. Her speech
concludes with urgently needed, practical recommendations for
reform.
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- “Rent
Control” — Marcy Ellin Boucher from Proceedings
of the Third Annual N.Y. Conf. of Private Property Rights
(PRFA, 1998)
Ms. Boucher describes her Kafkaesque ordeal attempting to
collect rent from the free-loading, well-organized 18 tenants
in her apartment house, who are protected by rent control and
New York City’s system of tenant protections.
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