05/13/2009
The New York State Senate operates on a comically short schedule: adjourning for the year in June after having spent the first few months of the year resolving (or not resolving) budgetary issues.
Under pressure to move more than a dozen bills designed to make the rent-regulation system most robust (bills that have already passed the State Assembly), Senator Espada, Chair of the Housing Committee, is apparently prepared to take a couple of half-steps, but remains unwilling to move the most substantive legislation.
Click the link to read the article in Crain's New York Business.