People used to put their furniture in summer storage and then rent another apartment when they returned from summer vacation. All this created a paradise for adventurous young people pursuing their careers in the city. She crashed with friends, even slept in doorways a few times, but there was always a cold-water flat somewhere where you could put up for a few months. It was the one place in the country, she said, where you could pursue a life of poetry while living on next to nothing. For the first year or two, your whole life may be consumed with finding a place to live.
People become devious.
They never see any relevance. Now State Senate Republican Majority Leader Joe Bruno has set about to change all this. Rent controls are the cause of the crisis, not the solution. Bruno's words have set off a firestorm among New York's two million regulated tenants, who are predicting thousands will be thrown into the streets. Democratic Assembly leader Sheldon Silver has vowed rent regulations will remain in place and wants to make them permanent.