Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Housing Committee Chairman Vito Lopez, the Assembly Majority and the Community Service Society Release Groundbreaking Report Highlighting NYC Housing Crisis and the Need For Stronger Rent Laws

NEW YORK, NY – March 15, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Housing Committee Chairman Vito Lopez were joined by members of the Assembly Majority, David R. Jones the President of the Community Service Society of New York, affordable housing advocates and rent-regulated tenants to release a groundbreaking new report documenting rent-stabilized housing’s critical role in protecting millions of working New Yorkers and the urgent need to extend rent-stabilization laws while closing the loopholes that are costing New York thousands of affordable apartments every year.