See Also
“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)
“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.
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City Journal
Indispensable quarterly about
the economics, politics, and life of New York City
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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
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 defending tenants from administrative
search warrants imposed without probable cause.)
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
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In-Depth Information
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 “Is
Your Rental Home Your Castle?-Administrative Warrants and Personal
Privacy in the Twenty-first Century” - By Robert McNamara,
Esq., Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C.; Twelfth Annual
National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany,
N.Y., October 18, 2008)
The City of Red Wing, Minnesota, imposes administrative search
warrants (searches without probable cause) on rental properties,
collecting photos of the interior of residences (including even
the inside of closets), and intending to post these on the Internet
for police use. The right to privacy, to be secure in your home
from searches without probably cause, is guaranteed by the U.S.
Constitution.
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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).
- 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 New York Conference
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 Proceedings of the Third Annual New York Conference
on 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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