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In this light, it is very odd that Senate Republicans call themselves the “Reformist movement”. The “Business As Usual” movement would be more appropriate since they had, until November 2008, controlled the workings on NY State for over 40 years. They had plenty of time to implement “reforms” and yet this time period saw property taxes skyrocket statewide and in New York city building owners and landlords were allowed to run a third-world style campaign to get rid of rent regulated tenants. In the late 1970s, under former Mayor Koch, landlords were given free reign to harass tenants out of their homes, tactics which included turning off the heat in the cold of winter and bringing in prostitutes, thugs and former asylum patients. By 1980, the warehousing of rental units was common in order to deregulate rent stabilized apartments. There were also many “mysterious” fires in buildings owned by those owners who consistently appeared on the city’s Top 10 Worst landlord lists.
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