ALBANY — In 2019, New York passed a law allowing upstate municipalities to adopt rent stabilization protections that were previously limited to New York City.
Housing advocates have welcomed the new tools to fight housing insecurity. Six years later, despite a wide push to adopt the measure, the Hudson Valley city of Kingston remains the only municipality to adopt rent control measures in upstate.
This month, the state Assembly’s Housing Committee will hear from local officials about why more municipalities have not adopted rent stabilization measures despite rising rents statewide…