Tenant Advocates Appeal Decision to Overturn Election
A judge ordered a new election last month, to re-decide the referendum on rent control in Hoboken.
Cheryl Fallick, a Hoboken resident who serves on the rent leveling board, has appealed a recent decision to overturn the outcome of last November's referendum about rent control. New Jersey Superior Court Judge Christine Farrington ruled last month to overturn the decision on public question 2. She also ordered a new election. While voters decided to uphold rent control on its current form in Hoboken — rather than changing to a vacancy decontrol system — the outcome was later contested. After all the vote by mail ballots were counted, rent control was upheld by less than 50 votes. A group of 15 voters — with the support of the Mile Square Tax Payers Association and lead by lawyer Charles Gormally — contested 92 ballots. The rent control …
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albert ross
2:49 pm on Sunday, March 17, 2013
No one has the right to low rent but tenants do have the right of protection from unfair and unlawful increases from landlords and developers. Some commenter wiping his chin after a visit to the MSTA teat might disagree, but ultimately he knows we are right and he is wrong. more ›