Democrats demand info on GOP’s rent regulation aversion

There’s something fishy about the Republican push to end the city’s rent regulations, at least according to some Democrats, and they’re going to get to the bottom of it. The Daily News reported that the Metropolitan Council on Housing, a tenant advocate group, submitted a Freedom of Information Law request for all communications between landlord groups and leaders in the Republican-controlled state Senate. Austin Shafran, an aide to Senate Democrats, said the “affordable housing massacre” being staged by the GOP “needs to be exposed.” But a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Nassau County countered that the party “make[s] the decision to support or oppose legislation based on the merits, plain and simple.” [NYDN]

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