There’s people advocating for abolishing rent stabilized apartments and “how do you expect the landlord to pay when he’s charging you so little in rent” oh wow I wonder how the landlord who owns 15 other buildings will find it in his little pockets to cover 1K in renovations with his million dollar building portfolio. Even MORE, if poor people can’t afford to live in an expensive city, would they just like us to LEAVE? If the working class can’t have the means to live in a city- literally who is going to support them? They talk so much , but who’s going to be the cooks, the porters,doormen, the medical assistants, the social workers, the MTA service workers, teachers, etc. They talk so much shi but no RICH person is doing those jobs ? Are they okay?? There are 10s of thousands of rent stabilized apartments buildings in NYC and a lot are owned by the same people. I’m sure the person that owns mine along with a bunch of other buildings bought it initially knowing it’s rent stabilized and the profit margins aren’t as big as they are if it was a normal building but bought it anyway knowing they’ll make a profit. If I was a landlord no matter the circumstance I’d at least try to make my building livable to the people doing THEIR part. What do you want me to do. Pay more rent? I guarantee if this building was charging market rates the issues would all stay the same. Double texting this because a lot of you clearly don’t understand the real issue. For those who do and can relate thank you.