To The Editor:
Re: “Fixing the rent law” (Downtown Express editorial, June 23).
Millions of New Yorkers survive just fine paying market rates. Why do the tenants living in 1 million rent-stabilized apartments think they are so special that they get to pay less than everyone else? Why are millionaires allowed to keep stabilized apartments? Why is anyone allowed to keep a rent of $127 a month,
This system is such nonsense. This is about politics — it’s not about common sense or good housing policy.
I have a negative net worth — tens of thousands of student debt. Yet my millionaire neighbor pays one-third what I pay in rent. It’s unfair. She should pay market rate just like I do.
DeSean Richards
