David Byrne: If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here

Re:David Byrne: If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent... by harryh on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:16PM (#6510096)

That 40k number is flat out wrong.

"But even in Manhattan, nearly half of all rental apartments are rent-stabilized."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/realestate/rent-stabilized...

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Re:David Byrne: If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent... by itp on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:19PM (#6510127)

Without getting in the middle of this, I'd just point out that you're both right -- roughly 38k rent controlled units, about one million rent stabilized units. Apparently there's a difference! http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html#d...

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Re:David Byrne: If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent... by busterarm on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:24PM (#6510168)

We're talking about two different things here. I'm talking specifically about rent control.

I know what I'm talking about, I live(d) in a rent controlled apartment since birth.

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Re:David Byrne: If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent... by harryh on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:02PM (#6511236)

But that's not what the OP was talking about. He was surely using the phrase "rent control" in its colloquial sense.

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