Tenant-backed bills struggle for traction in Albany

The tenant coalition behind New York’s biggest legislative shocker in half a century has had little success replicating that victory a year later. Housing Justice for All’s top-priority bills would extend an eviction moratorium indefinitely, cancel rent and expand housing vouchers for low-income tenants. None has attracted enough support to get a vote from the Democrats who passed a sweeping reform of rent stabilization last year. “With a lot of the [Senate Democratic conference] members,

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